BERTHOUD, M. his time-keepers tried, at fea, 154. Their ac- curacy and utility, ib. BLACKBURNE, Mr. his noble bo- tanic garden, 240.
BOLTON HALL, fome account of, 258.
BONES, how used, and with what
effect, as a manure, 471. BULL and Mouth Inn, etymology of that fign, 259. BURGUNDY, Duke of, his last converfations, 312. BRAMINS. See SURAT. BRUCE, Robert, King of Scot- land, his fpirited contests wiih the Pope, 187.
CARVER, Capt. his motives for
travelling to explore the inte- rior of North America, 90. Dif- ficulties in the undertaking, 91. His refolution in purfuing the defign, 93. His papers detain- ed at the Plantation office, 94. CÆSARIAN fection, in child- birth, reflections on, 60. Cafe of an actual operation. 74. CASTILLON, M. de, his aftrono-
mical and mathematical papers in the memoirs of the Berlin
Academy, 519. CASSINI, M. his voyage to New- foundland, 71.
the elder, his great im- provements in aftronomy, 533. CEMENT, Adam's, the originality of the invention of questioned,
72. CHARITY defined, 435. St. Paul's difplay of poetically paraphrased, 469.
CHARLEMAGNE, the Great, a bad
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CHINA, calculations of the no. ber of inhabitants in that em pire, 505, 548. Extraordinary high intereit of money in that country, 549. Conjectures re- lative to the cause of, 550. Pre- fent ftate of medicine there, ib. Musk animal there, account of, 552. CHINESE, hiftorical account of the feveral dynasties of their Empe- rors, 501. Their high regard to filial piety, 547. Il effects of that predominant principle in China, 548. Other particulars relative to that people, 549. CHOISEUL, Count de, his account of the isles of Naxos, Tenos, Syra, and Delos, 510. CLERGY, Proteftant, in Ireland, their disagreeable fituation, with refpect to Tythes, 11. CLERGYMAN, his proper charac ter difplayed, with refpect to in- fluence from example, 485. COLLAR, wonderful. See FEAR-
COLONIES, British, of North A- merica, exhorted to a reconci- liation with Great Britain as most for their real intereft, 125. Horrors of the prefent war with poetically and affectingly de- fcribed, 373.
CooTE, Col. his generalship at the battle of Vandiwash, 48. COPERNICUS, his astronomical dif-
coveries, 528-529.
CORTES, his correfpondence with Charles V. 556. His account of his conquest of Mexico, 557. His defcription of the court of Mentezuma, 558. Of the dread- ful and cruel circumftances of the war, 559. His averfion to the Spanish Bishops, ib. COUGH, catarrhous, remedy for, 62.
Cow, cafe of one nearly killed by eating cabbages, 26. How cu red, 27.
CRITICISM, verbal, utility of af- ferted, 375.
CURFEW, account of, 261. D.
DEBTOR. See POOR.
DELOS, island of. See CHOI-
DE LUC, M. his effay on pyro-
metry, &c. 420. DESCARTES, his immenfe know- ledge and discoveries, 532. DIDEROT's effay on Seneca, 313. DIMSDALE, Baron, his remarks on general inoculation of the fmall-pox, 313.
FACIUS, Profeffor, his Latin ver- fion of the Orestes of Euripides,
312. FAERNO, fome account of that ex- cellent man, 565.
FAITH, confidered as a virtue, 43 1. FARMING. See AGRICULTURE. FEARAIDHACH, King of Ireland, wonderful virtues of his gold collar, 105.
FEVER, fcarlet, &c. Account of that which lately appeared at Birmingham, &c, 224. thod of treating, 227
DROPSY, cured by a chirurgical FIRE, natural and morbific, of the
EGYPTIAN language, when firft ftudied in England, 1. Culti- vated at Oxford, 2. Grammar and dictionary of, ib. ELECTRICITY, remarkable cure performed by, 414. Obf. on electrical conductors, by Mr. Wilfon, 415. Other obf. by Mr. Swift, 417. See alfo E-
GRAN, Archbishop of, his vaft opulence and power. 562. GRANGE, M. de la, his papers in the memoirs of the Berlin Aca-
demy, 519. GREEKS, ancient, their philofo- phy generally characterised, 120. their poetry, 123. GUNPOWDER, experiments on the force of, 417.
GYPSIES, their origin, 260. H.
HAYGARTH, Dr. See CHESTER. HAY-MAKING, improved me- thods of, 22. HAZARD of farming, 172. HEAT, animal, opinions relative to the cause of, 385.
animal and vegetable, ac- count of, 418. HEBREWS, their poetry critically explained, 132. HELL, where placed by the an- cients, 496.
HENLY, Mr. See ELECTRICITY. HIPPARCHUS, the ancient aftro- nomer, his discoveries, 525- 527.
HISTORY of Ireland, 3. HOEFMAN, Dr. his experiments for the recovery of perfons ap- parently drowned, 566. HOLLAND, obf. on the prefent ftate of affairs between that country and England, 388. HOLYWELL, town of described,' Account of St. Wini-
fred's Well there, ib. HUNGARY, great opulence and power of the fuperior clergy there, 562.
HUNTER, Dr. his reflections on the Cæfarian festion, &c. 60. on the heat of animals
and vegetable, 418. See EVELYN. HUTTON, M. his experiments
on the force of gunpowder, 417. HUSBANDRY, uten fils and ma- chines ufed in, new inventions of and improvements in, 18.
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INDULGENCES, papal, curious fpecimen of, 262.
INHALER, a machine used in cu-
ring the catarrhous cough, 62. INNATE principles, existence of proved, 333.
INOCULATION, of the fmall-pox, new remark on, 149. See also DIMSDALE IRELAND, ancient hiftory of, 3. Early cultivation of learning there, 7. Philofophical furvey of the fouth of, 8. Origin of the White Boys there, 11. Of the Oak Bɔys, 12. Of the Steel Boys, 13. Far- ther accounts of the ancient hif- tory of that island, 95. Invaded by the fons of Milefius, ib. Completely conquered, 99. Po- verty of the peasants, &c. there, 193. IRISH, ancient, connected with the Carthaginians, 102.
prefent poverty of the lower ranks of, 193. IRISH-HOWL, whence derived, 10. ISAIAH, his prophecies originally written in verfe, 131. Critical remarks and explications of,
215. Isus, the orator, fome account of, 455. Compared with Ly- fius, 456.
JUSTICIARY, Courts of, in Scot- MENTELLE's treatife on the sphere,
LAMBERT, M. his papers in the
the Berlin memoirs, 513. LAW, William, his enmity toward Reafon, 241.
LEIBNITZ, M. his letters to F. Orban, 542. His littleness in foliciting profitable appoint- ments from the Emperor of Ger- many, 543.
Le Roy, M. his clocks, for the discovery of the longitude, tried in a voyage to Newfoundland, 71. Other trials in various parts of the globe, 154.
Dr. his account of the fection of the fymphyfis of the pubes, as a substitute for the Cæfarian fection, 74. LEVELLERS, or White Boys, of Ireland, pleasant ftory of, 11,
LIARDET. See ADAM. LIGHT. See BEGUELEN. LONGINUS, Mr. Toup's edition of his works commended, 377. Strictures on the ftyle and fenti- ments of Longinus, 380. LOWENDHAL, Count, anecdote
MESSIER, M. his aftronomical
papers in the Berlin memoirs, 520. METTAM, Mr. his letter to Mr. Tillington, concerning a remark- able phenomenon in the Derby- fhire mines, 46. MIDDLETON, Capt. his uncom- mon bravery, 260.
MILLER, Mr. his account of Su- matra, 420.
MILNER, Rev. Mr. his reflections on the communication of motion by impact and gravity, 418. MINES, in Derbyshire, curious accounts of, 45.
MOHAMMEDANS, various fects of in Arabia and the Eaft Indies defcribed, 305.
MORAY, Earl of, his negociations at the papal court, 186. MORE, Sir Thomas, remarks on his character, 196. MOUNTAINS in Swifferland de- fcribed, 343. MULLER, John, the inventor of the Ephemerides, 529. Music, French, obfervations on, 151. - Italian MUSICAL eftablishments in Wales, 35. Degrees and diftinctions in, 36.
LYSIUS, the orator, compared NABOB. See TANJORE.
MACBRIDE, DE. his account of an improved method of tan- ning leather, 419. MARGRAFF, M. his memoir of the Saxon topaz, 513.
his fupplement to the above account, 517- ME, M. his fingular tafte in gardening, 9. Cuts his park into the form of a thistle, ib. MELIORATIONS of foil, remarks · ons 27.
NAXOS, ancient and present ftate of, 509. NECESSITY, philofophical, re-
marks relative to, 208. NEWS-PAPERS, apology for their
licentioufnefs, 464. Benefits, to the public, refulting from and over-balancing this evil, 465. NEWTON, Sir Ifaac, panegyrical display of his immense discove. ries in philofophy, &c. 533. NINEVEH, remains of, 310.
OCULUS MUNDI, properties of, and where found, 517. ORATOR, Cicero's opinion of the powers of, contraverted, 457. ORIGEN, his Hexaplar edition of the LXX. tranflated into Syriac, 79.
ORLEANS, Philip, Duke of, his
character, 151. OSSA, PUBIS, reflections on the divifion of, as a fubftitute for the Cæfarian section, 60. In- ftance of an operation, 74. P.
PAINTING, fketches of the an- cient history of, 365. PALLISER, Sir Hugh, fentence passed on him by the court-mar- tial, 400. Remarkable differ
ences in the printed accounts of,
PALSY, account of a particular kind of, 199. Cure of, 200. PAPISTS, tracts relative to them, 243.
PAPUAS, account of that people, 266.
PARTINGTON, Mr. his account of the cure of a mufcular contrac- tion by electricity, 414. PATENTS for new inventions, obf. on the tendency of, 72. PERSIA, Mr. Niebuhr's obf. rela- tive to what he faw in that coun- try, 305. PHARMACOPEE de Lyon, 313. PHILOSOPHY of the ancient Greeks, general account of, 120. natural, new and cu- rious experiments relative to, 442. PLATINA, fome account of his
works, 565. PLATO, his philofophy, 122. PLAYFAIR, Rev. Mr. his remarks
on the arithmetic of impoffible quantities, 418. POETRY of the ancient Greeks, generally characterised, 123. Of the Hebrews, 132. POLYGAMY, ftory relative to, 308.
POOR man's prayer, 461. POPE, John XXII. See BRUCE. POPERY, in Ireland, lefs malig- nant now than in former times, 10. Tracts relative to the tole- ration of popery in England, &c. 243.
PRICE, Dr. his friendly conteft with Dr. Prieftley, 208. His ftrictures on the Bishop of Lon- don, 247. PRIESTCRAFT, curious ftory of. See INDIANS. PRINTS, from engravings, anec. dotes relative to the history and progress of, 367. PRUSSIA, King of, celebrates Vol- taire, 68, 144. His Majefty's difinterested and generous con- duct in this respect, ib. PTOLOMY, his aftronomical me- rit, 527.
PURBACH, his improvements in aftronomy, 529.
Pus, new difquifition on, 541. PYTHAGORAS, account of his doctrines, 120.
PYROMETER. See DE LUC. Q.
RATTLE-SNAKE, wonderful ftory of one of thofe animals, 281. REDEMPTION, of mankind, Mr. Search's fcheme of, 432. REVELATION of St. John, new explanation of, 75. Objections to the authenticity of that book answered, 561.
RICHTER'S geographical research-
es, 311. ROBERTSON, Dr. his character as an hiftorian, 270. Cenfured, 275.
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jaques, sketch of his character, 137. Speci- men of his memoirs of himself, 139. Manner of his dying, 140. His laft words, 141. His tomb and monument, 142.
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