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DEATH, no object of fear to good. FRANCE, prefent King of, fome

people, 235.
DEGLUTITION, total obftruction
of, how cured, 259.
DENMARK, remarks on the con-
ftitution of its government, 31.
Its capital defcribed, 32.
DISSENTERS, tracts relating to
their late application to parlia-
ment, 75, 101, 163, 347, 402.
DOLLAND'S micrometer, improve-

ment in the use of, 414.
DROPSY, extra cures of, 261.
DUHAMEL, Monf. his experiment
to ascertain the fexual fyftem of
plants, 272.
DUMB-WAITERS, how used in the
palace of the French King, 64.
DUTCH, their wonderful industry,
62.

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anecdotes relating to, 64.

country of, encomium

on, 65.

people of, their man-

ners, &c. ib.
FRIENDSHIP with God, its nature
explained, on fcripture princi
ples, 478.

G

G.

ARDEN, Dr. his account of
the virtues of the Indian
pink root, 97.
GARDENS, European, feverely ani-
madverted on, 137. Vindi-
cated, 138. Thofe of the Chi-
nefe praifed, 140. Defcribed,
ib.
GARDINER, Dr. his method of
giving the folution of mercury
in fmall dofes, as an anthel-
mintic, 184. His obf. on the
abule of cauftics, in venereal
excreffences, ib.
GENESIS, chap. iv.
tranflation of, 1.
luftrations of, 2-7.
GIANTS, of the Old Testament,

and v. new
Critical il-

critical remarks on, 5.
GILCHRIST, Dr. his account of
an infectious diftemper, 97.
His obf. on the catarrhal epi-
demi, 185. Of the urinary
bladder thickened, ib.
Gon, the existence of, a truth too
obvious for rational investiga
tion, 50. His particular provi-
dential difpenfations afferted,
52. His moral government of
the world, 53. His friendship
with man explained, 477-
GRAMMAR, natural principles of

391.

GREEKS, modern, their national

character, 223. Their man-
ners and cultoms, compare
with thofe of the ancient
Greeks, ib. et feq.

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HERESY, in the Chriftian church,

Sketch of the history of, 328.
HOLLAND, obs, on, 62.
HOLLINGSWORTH, Mr. his me-
thod of destroying wild garlic,

345.
HORNSBY, Mr. his deduction of

the fun's parallax, from obfer-
vations of the tranfit of Venus

in 1769, 415.
HORSES, the exceffive number de-
trimental to a country, 83,
84.
HUSBANDRY, obfervations on, and,

hints for improvement in, 94,
HYDATIDS. See COLLET.
HYDROPHOBIA, feveral cafes of,
256.

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KARMS, Lord, his obf. on eva-
poration, 95.
KENNICOTT, Dr. his collation of
the fcripture-manufcripts at-
tacked, 245.
KILLARNEY, lake of, poetically
celebrated, 216. The flag-
hunting there defcribed, ib.
KINGS, of England, their power
greatly limited in the feudal
times, 39. Their gradual en-
croachments on the rights of the
people, ib.

L

L.

ANDEN, Mr. his investigation
of some new and useful the-
orems in fluxions, 415.
LANDLORDS, of estates in the
country, advised to relide there,
37. Great improvements to be
made by that means, ib.
Law, feudal, account of, 39-
LINNAEUS, his botanic fyftem il-

luftrated, 270. Order obferved
in the establishment of, 273.
LIVER, account of a dreadful dif-
order incident to, in hot cli-
mates, 134 Caule and cure
of, 135.
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in, 197.

MADNESS, canine, feveral cafes
of, 2.6.

MAGNA CHARTA, &C. Great
queftion, with respect to the
origination of, difcuffed, 44.
MAGNESIA, alba, improved me-
thod of preparing, 261.
MAGNOL, his botanical fyftem
cenfured, 270.
MANIFESTO of the courts of Ruf-
fia, Vienna, and Berlin, examined
and exploded, -447.
MANKIND, the bulk of, incapa-
ble of reafoning on religious
fubjects, 438,
MANUFACTORIES, proper fitua-
tions for, investigated, 198. The
country recommended in pre-
ference to great cities, 199.
MARRIAGE-ACT, Royal, incons
fiftent with the Thirty nine Ar-
ticles of the church of England,
300.
MARSHALL, Mr. author of the
Travels through Holland, &c.
fome account of him, and the
authenticity of his work afferted,
252.
MASKELYNE, Mr. his account of
a method of measuring differ-
ences of right afcenfion and de-
clination, with Dolland's micro-
meter, 414.,,
MATTER, curious theory of the

nature and properties of, 315.
MEN-MIDWIVES, vulgar preju-
dices againit exploded, 321.

MILLENIUM, ftate of the earlier
controverfies relating to, 329.
Rational hypothefis of, ib. Lord
Barrington's opinion of, 443.
MILMAN, Mr. his account of the
fcurvy, 265.

MINERAL waters, enquiry into
the reality of their fuppofed ful-
phureous principle, 465.
MINERALOGIST, his travelling
apparatus defcribed, 460. Lo-
ftructions for, 461.

MISISSIPPI, the propofals for a
new fettlement on the banks of,
confidered, and approved, 206.
MONGLAS, Marq. de, his inter-
efting history, 8.

MONRO, Dr. his experiments on
the effects of opium, &c, on the
nerves of animals, 93. His ac-
count of the Lisbon diet-drink,
in venereal cafes, 185. On the
ftate of the inteftines in old dy-
fenteries, 186. On the use of
mercury in convulfive diforders,
187. His account of fome un-
common cafes, 264.
MOREL, Mr. his account of beni-
feed oil, 345.

Moscow, city of, defcribed, 36.
MUNCKLEY, the late Dr. N. his
account of a cafe of the hydro-
phobia, 256.

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MERCURY, enquiry into it opers, and oatmeal, condemn-

ration in the venereal disease,

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ed, 83.

OHIO, icheme for new fettlements
on the banks of, examined and
recommended, 210.

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lars relating to, where to be met
with, 239.
OPTICS, ignorance of the ancients
in relation to, 366. Progress
of the science of, 307. Won-
derful discoveries in by Newton,
&c. 309.

ORRERY, new-invented one de-
fcribed, 336.

ORTHODOXY, humourous defini-
tion of, 294.

OXEN, in what refpects preferable

PoWER, Mr. his account of an ex-
traordinary ptyalism, 256.
PRODIGAL Son, reflections on the
parable of, 234.

PRUSSIA, King of, his violent
feizure of the Polish territories

expofed, 447 His vaunting
exclamation, with respect to the
British government, 451.

Q.

to horfes for p'ough and draught, QUADRANT, Hadley's, new

23. Remarks on the feeding of
with oil cakes, 27. Bounty on
the use of oxen recommended,,
84.

PARIS,

P.

ARIS, defcription of, 63..
PEMBERTON, late Dr. his fo-
lution of an abltrufe problem in
aftronomy, 414.
PERCIVAL, Dr. his history and
cure of a difficulty in degluti-
tion, 259.
PERSECUTION never attended with
good effects, 455. Inftanced
in a remarkable story of Shaw
Jehân, 456.
PHYSIC, theory and practice of,
fyftematically arranged and claff-
ed, 376.
PINK, Indian, medicinal virtues

of, 97.
PLEASURE, the inordinate love of,
in what refpects inconfiftent with
religion, 233.
PLOUGHING,hallon. See CLARK.
PLURALITIES, ecclefiaftical, fe.
verely cenfured, 287.
POLAND, miferable prefent ftate
of that country, 36, 447.
POPULATION, as affected by the
divifion of property, difcuffed,

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81.
POTATOES, Gerard's account of
them at their first introduction
into England, 130.

improvement in the conftruc-
ion of, 337.
QUICKSET hedges, remarks on
the raifing and management of,

24.
QUIER, Dr. his account of inocu-
lation in Jamaica, 264.

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236.

not to be rationally in-
vestigated by the bulk of maa-
kind, 438. Any religion beter
than Atheism, 439. Not fub-
ject to the abfolute cognizance
of government, 491.
RICKETS, a fatal diftemper among
fheep, 27. Brief investigation
of, 28.
RITTENHOUSE, Mr. his new in-
vented orrery, 336. His obl
on the comet of 1770, 340.
His method of deducing the
true time of the fan's paffing the
meridian per clock, 341.
RIVINUS, his botanical researches,
2'7.

ROMANS, their magnificence in

their baths, 366, State of the
arts among them in the age of
Auguftus, 371.

RUSSIA, Emprefs of, her conduct
with respect to Poland, 447.
RUSSIANS, fome account of their
manners, &c. 35-

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AINFOIN, cultivation of warmly
recommended, 86.
SATAN, fcripture meaning of that
word, 191.

SAXONS, Anglo, account of their
regulations with refpect to the
militia, 43.

SCHEELE, Mr. his curious expe-

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riments on the flour patofus, TARANTULA, bite of, vulgar

46v.
SHAKESPEARE, poetic encomium
on, 410.
SHAMROCK, meaning of, in the
Irish, 484.
SHARPE, the late Dr. Gregory,
his great learning, 231. His.
pofthumous fermons commend-
ed, ib.

SHAW Jehân, his fruitless attempt
to root out the fuperftition of the
Hindoos, 456. Story of his un-
fortunate fon Dara, 457.
SHEEP, remarks on the keeping
of, 23. 24. Account of a re-
markable diftemper among them,

27.

SILESIA, flourishing state of that
country, 37.
SLAVERY, origin of, 423. Law-
fulness and unlawfulness of ar
gued, 424.

SMITH, Dr. his account of the
transit of Mercury over the Sun,
Nov. 9, 1769, as obferved in
Pennsylvania, 342.

SPAR. See SCHEELE.
SOLAR fyftem, relative and abfo-
lute diftances of the planets in,
table of, 415.
STIRLING, Earl of, his account of

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the comet of 1770, 341.
STOMACH, the confcience of the
body, 68. Its admonitions and
functions, how fuperfeded, ib.
STONE, in the bladder. See
DAWSON.
SUBSCRIPTION, to the Thirty-
nine Articles of the church, re-
flections on, 297, 402, 437,
474.

95.

relative to, refuted,

TEA, obf. on the natural hiftory
of, 131. Medicinal effects of,
132.

TOLERATION, principles of affert-
ed, 347. Farther infifted on in
favour of the Diffenters, 402.
TOURNEFORT, his botanical fyf
tem, 267.

TRITHEISM, orthodox doctrine of,
ftated and exploded, 295.
TURNBULL, Mr. his account of
the tarantula, 95.

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INE, culture of, and manu-
facture of wine, in America,
recommended, 343.

VISION. See OPTICS.

W.

WALLACE, Mr. his fentiments

Mohsen
of population, 82.
WARREN, Dr. his account of the
Colica Pictonum, 258.
WARSAW, inagnificence of the
royal palace there, 37.
WASTE LANDS, advantages of
converting into farms, 87. Pro-
per time for adopting fuch mea-
fures, 88.1

WATER, discoveries relating to its

impregnation with fixed air, 227.
WENSLEY Dale, described, 115.
WHEELS, new invention of, for
fpinning cotton, 197.
WHITEFIELD, Rev. Mr. his re-
tractations of his errors, 249-

250.
WHITELOCKE, Commiffioner, his
converfation with the Archb.

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