SABBATH, how to be regarded in farming affairs, 249. SAINT Peter's church, at Rome, defcribed, 338.
SALT, wonderful mountain of, in Spain, 564.
SALT-PETRE, remarks on the de- compofition of, by means of the fal gemma of Cordova, 555. SAPHANDRE, a machine to pre- vent drowning, 567. SCARLATINA Anginofa defcribed, 225. How treated, 227. SCOTLAND, obfcurity of its an- cient history, 270. Dr. Stu- art's researches into commend- ed, 271. Kings of Scotland not unlimited in their power, 275. Their great officers of ftate, 278. Courts of justiciary, 355.
SELF-ATTENDANCE, its import- ance, particularly in the bufinefs of a farm, 169.
SELWYN, John, his extraordinary
ftrength and agility, 258. SENECA, effay on the life and wri- tings of, 313. SERVANTS, management of, in the farming bufinefs, 180, SHIRAS, in Perfia, obf. made there by a modern traveller, 306. SOCRATES, brief account of his philofophy, 122.
SOUCHOT, Mrs. her remarkable cafe of delivery in childbirth, 74. SOUL, human, philofophical opi- nions relative to its immortality, 521.
SPAIN, wonderful mountain of falt
SURAT, account of the inhabis tants of, 305.
SWISSERLAND, fketches of, 3435 Prices of provifions in that coun- try, 346.
SYRA, formerly Syros. See CHOI-
TANJORE, particulars relating to the late conqueft and reflora- tion of, 293-300. TANNING of leather, new method of, 419.
TAYLOR, the water poet, his
quaint account of Nicolas Wood, the great eater, 261. THALES, fome account of his philofophy, 122.
THICKNESSE, Mr. letter to from one of the Monks of Montser- rat, 70. TENERIFFE, pike of, curious ex- periment on liquors carried to the fummit of, 154. TICHO-BRAHE, his aftronomical difcoveries, 529.
TIME-KEEPERS. See LE ROY. TINE, or Tenos, pleafing descrip- tion of the women of that island, 511. TINTERN Abbey, fome account of, 263.
TOPAZ. See MARGRAFF. TOURNAMENTS, &c, curious ac
count of royal ordinances rela tive to,, 257.
TRAITE de la fphere, &c. 313. TRELAWNEY, Rev. Sir Harry, his change of religious fentiments, 79. Witticisms on, ib. TRINITY, Mr. Search's explica- tion of, 431. Dr. Scott's nos tion of, 486.
STRATA of the earth, curious ac- Twiss, Mr. how rendered obno-
counts of, 42.
of the Derbyshire mines,
44. STUCCO. See APPEAL. SULZER, M. his philofophical me- moir on the immortality of the
foul, 520. SUMATRA, ifland of, account of, 420.
xious to the Irish, 191. V.
VANDIWASH, battle of, describ-
313. VOLTAIRE, M. de, celebrated by the King of Pruffia, 67. His life and conduct generally ami able, 68. Vast diverfity of his talents, 69, 144. His merit as an hitorian, 269.
VITET'S difpenfatory of Lyons, WINEFREDE'S Well, defcription of, 32. Qualities of the wa- ters, 195. WINKLEHAAK, M. his account of methods to recover perfons ap- parently drowned, 566. WHITE, Dr. his experiments on air, and the different kinds of effluvia upon it, 409. WOMEN, highly reverenced by the ancient Germans, 16.
WALES, antiquities found in, 33. Ancient mufical esta- blishments in, 35. WALTHERUS, the first aftronomer who ufed clocks for the mea. furement of time, 529. WATCH. See LE ROY. WILSON, Mr. his experiments, &c. on conductors for lightning, 415. His letter to the Royal Academy of Berlin, concerning fome new properties of light, 513-
their cruel vaffalage in ancient Greece, 454. Their rights of inheritance among the Greeks, Arabs, and Romans, 455. Women of Naxos de- fcribed, 510. Of Tenos, 511. WOOD, Nicolas, the great eater,
261. WORCESTER, Marquis of, his ex- traordinary retirement in Wenf ley Dale, 258.
ERRATA in this VOLUM E.
P. 4, 1. penult, del. generally.
17, 1. 6 from bottom, for raifoncé, r. raisonné.
55, 1. 21, for years, r. reasons.
104, par. 2, 1. 13, for other opportunities are embraced, s. oppor- tunities are likewife embraced.
148, 1. 4, for perfectionement, T. perfectionnement.
Ibid. Art. XI. 1. 1, for Morale, r. Moral.
Ibid. 1. penult, for Moise, r. Moïse.
149, 1. penult, for Precis, r. Précis.
150, Art. XVI. 1. ult. for Modern times, r. Modern Naturalifts.
153, par. 2, 1. 4, for Phillippiques, r. Philippiques.
355, par. 3, 1.9, for he advances, r, he produces.
-365, par. 2, for practice of ftatuary, r. practice of the art of Aatuary.
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