MEMOIRS rel. to mathematics and natural philofophy, vol. ix. 302. MERIAN, M. his investigation of the problem of Molyneux, 503. METROLOGIE, ou traité de mesures, &c. 460.
MILLY, Count de, his memoir con- cerning the aeriform emanations from the human body, 494. MONK's ftone in Northumberland, extraordinary. ftory concerning,
55. MONTAGU, Ed. Wortley, his man-
ner of living at Venice, 139. MOON. See HERSCHEL. MORGAN, Mr. his examination of Dr. Crawford's theory of heat and combustion, 351. MORAVIANISM, candid account of, 207. Vindicated from the charge of immorality, 208. Sketch of the history of the Moravian bre- thren, 212.
MOTION. See St. VINCE. MUSCLES, obferv. on the perni- cious effects of, 527. The best method of cooking them, 528. Music, its use, in dramatic exhi- bitions, 282.
Italian, robberies commit- ted by, 465. Extravagant ex- pence of fome Princes in regard to this article of amufement, ib. of the ancients, deficient with respect to harmony, 554.
NAIRNE, Mr. his acc. of the ef- fect of electricity in shortening wires, 273. NAPLES, remarks on the hereditary jurifdict. of the nobles there, and in Sicily, over their vaffals, 367. NATURE, philofophical inquiries
into the unities of, 513. NAVIGATION, inland. See ALLE
NEEDHAM, Mr. concerning the contag. diforder among the cattle, 517. His natural hift. of the ant, 526. His inquiries concerning the nature and ceconomy of bees, 528.
NELIS, Abbé, his points of view. rel. to Belgic history, 530. NORTH Sea, curious natural hift. of, 523. Its fisheries, and the means of improving them, 524. NURSE, remarkable inftance of the continued affection of one for a perfon whom he had reared in infancy, 383.
OBSERVATIONS critiques et philo. Sophiques fur le Japon, 305. OEUVRES de M. Bole d'Antic. 458. OGDEN, Dr. memoirs of, 99. His
fermons vindicated by Dr. Hali fax against the cenfures of Mr. Mainwaring, 100. Reply to Dr. Halifax, 101.
OIL, its ufe in calming the agita-
tion of the fea, &c. 508. Effects and phenomena of, 526. OPERA, Comic, obferv. on, 282.
PILLAR of Forres defcribed, 112. POPE, Mr. his maxim with respect to forms of government explode ed, 17. POPERY preferred to Methodism, 102. Greatly on the decline in England, 403-408. POPULATION, the prefent ftate of, in England, not declining, 254. Por-ASH, new and cheap method
of preparing, 272. PRIESTLEY, Dr. his paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer, 165 PRINCIPES d'Hydraulique, 458. PRISON, at Moscow, anecdote of a gentleman confined in, 383. PRUSSIA, K. of, his letter to the
late Earl Marefchal Keith, 112. PUBLIC, advice to, relative to the caufes, characters, fymptoms, and true remedies of blindnef-, deafness, and the princ.pal vene- real fymptoms, 457. RECHERCHES phyfiques fur le feu, 300.
Sur les INITIATIONS anciennes et modernes, 303. et obf. fur les Loix Feo-
dales, 305. REFLEXIONS fur l'etat actuel de l'agriculture, 455. REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, encomium on his pictures, 130-131. Ge- neral imperfection of, 183. RICHARDSON, Senior, the painter, his works commended, 135.
Junior, his perform- ances, 136. The literary pro- ductions of both characterifed, ib. ROBIN, Abbé, his inquiries con-
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ftory and catastrophe of, 95. RONDEAU, M. du, his memoir concerning wool, 533. Ror, in sheep, caufe of, invefli-
SCHEELE, M, his chemical obferva- tions and experiments on air and fire, 339.
SCHOOL, of agriculture, fcheme for, 427.
SCHOOLS, Popish, none at present, of any confequence in England, 407. SCOTLAND, remarkable places in, for the notice of travellers, 112. The peerage of, how degraded fince the union, 226-227. SCRIPTURE, facred, various pa fages in our common tranflation of, corrected, 87.
criticifms and illuftra tions of fundry texts, 164-172. The truth of the Scriptures vin- dicated, against Lord Boling- broke, &c. 174. Corruptions in, accounted for, 176. Tefti- monies in fupport of, ib. Far- ther teftimonies, 321. SEA, method of calming the agi tation of, 508. SHEEP. See ROT. SHIPS, driven on shore, method of
removing in fafety, though da- maged in their bottoms, 270. SILBERSCHLAG, M. his defcrip- tion of the Uranometer, 505. SMALL-POX. See HUNTER. SOUL, immortality of, philosophi- cally difcuffed, 497. SPIRIT of the Croisades, 456. STEEL. See PERRET. ST. VINCE, M. his investigation
manners, &c. 449. grofs ignorance, 5498 TELMISSUS, ruins of, 558. The- atre of, 559. Medals of, ib. THERMOMETER, exper, and obf. relative to, 277:
THUMBERG, Dr. his Journal of a voyage to Japan, 270.
VETERINARIAN Academy, feheme for the establishment of, 427. VOYAGE pittorefque de la Grece, No. V. 453. VOYAGES.
See HARPE. URANOMETER, defcript. of, 505.
WALTER, Profeffor, his letter to Dr. Hunter, on the veins of the eye, &c. 493. WAR, confidered as á fcience, 553. WESLEY, Mr. Tharply affailed by
an Irifh Roman Catholic, 237. WHEAT, mode of fetting inftead of fowing, in Norfolk, 418. Great utility of this improvement, 419. WILSON, Bishop, memoirs of his life, 13. Remarkable epocha
in his hiftory, 15. Character of his writings, 16.
WILSON, Mr. his account of an extraordinary degree of cold at Glafgow, 275.
WINE. See ZELLER.
TICUNAS, experiments made with WITRY, Abbé, concerning foffils
.that poifon, 267. TIN. See MARCI. TORFEUS, the Icelandic Writer, fome account of, 115. TOURMALINE, principles of, 495. TRUTH, the free difcuffion of, dif cuffed, 499.
VEGETABLES, &c. difquifition
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VESUVIUS, account of the great eruption of, in August 1779, 268.
in the district of Tournay, 533. WOOL, memoir concerning the growth and culture of, in diffe- rent countries, 533.
XENOPHON. See MAIZEROY.
the adulteration of Rhenish wine, 537. ZINZENDORF, Count, forms, at ten years of age, the refolution of becoming a preacher, 213. ZoFFANII, his comic paintings commended, 131.
ZELLER's method of discovering
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