512.

A.

tive to heat, ftoves, electricity, &c.
on the changes which earths
undergo by fire, 514.
ACREL, M. his differtation on the bite
of ferpents, 302.
ADDISON, Mr. his poetry critised 101.
His tranflations, wherein defective, 102.
His critical talents 103. His profe
compofitions, in general, 104.
AGRICULTURE, dictionary of, published
at Paris, 539.

-, prefent ftate of, about
Batavia, 542.
AIR, alterations in the quality of, on the
approach of rain, &c. 306. Experi❤
ments on the weight of, 307. On o-
ther properties of it, 338, 346. Ef.

482. Experiments relative to inflam.
mable air, 492. Other experiments on
this element, 513.
ALARIC, K. of the Goths, his peculiar
conduct in plundering Rome, 33.
ALGE, lake of, defcribed, 548.
ALPS, travels in, and philosophical ob-
fervations relative to, 379.
ANATOMICAL obfervations, by M. Sab-
batier, 488.

Arr. Rev, Vol. Izv.

BIRDS, their migration, 301.
Mr. Latham's fynopfis of, 394.
BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, his poetry
characterised, 105.

BLETON, his wonderful faculty with re-
fpect to the divining rod, 498. Tefti-
monies of its reality, ib. M. Sigaud's
teftimony, 503.

BOUVET, M his difcovery of Cape Cir
cumcifion investigated, 494.
BRIEFE enis reifenden ueber den gegen-

waertigens Zuftand Von Caffel, 465.
BRINE-pits, and rivers of brine, in Wor-
cefterfhire and Cheshire, curious parti-
culars of, 260.

BRISSON and CADET, their memoirs
concerning the action of the electrical
fluid on metallic calxes, 484.
BRUCE, Michael, account of him 19.
His poem on his own approaching
death, ib.

BRYANT, Mr. his defence of the authen-
ticity of the teftimony supposed to be gi
ven by Jofephus concerning Chrift, 429.
BURNING-glafs, great powers of a very
large one at the Louvre, 137.

C.

CAR

ADET, M. his memoir concerning a
new method of compofing vitriolic
ether, &c. 140.
CALCINATION, See LAVOISSIER.
CAMBRIDGE, poem on the effects of fome
graces lately paffed there, 313. Expla-
nation of the term, ib. The note.
CAPE Circumfion, inquiry concerning its
latitude, &c. 496.

CARI, Cajetani, M. his philofophical ef-

fay on the weight, &c. of the air, 307.
CARTWRIGHT, Major, his principles of
civil government defended against Dean
Tucker, 324, 326.

CASIRIO, Don, his defcriptive catalogue
of Arabico-Spanish authors in the li-
brary of the Efeurial, 529.
CASTILLON, M. on the Socratie me-
thod of teaching, 521. See alío GLOBE.
CASTLES in the air, a poem, 384.
CERES, hymn to, See HOMER.
CHEMISTRY, various improvements and
difcoveries in, 47, 56.
CIBBER, Theophilus, how far concerned

in the lives of the poets, published under
his name, 4c9.

CLAVIGERO, Abbé, his ancient history

of Mexico, 462.

CLOCK, new п ethod ef regulating the
motion of, 25. Account of Arnold's
new pendulum clock, 27.
COAL, vapour of, its fatal effects exem-
plified, 481. Means of relief in fuch
cafes, 482.

4

COLD, obfervations on the extraordinary
degrees of, in France, &c. in 1776,
487.
COLLIER'S controverfy relating to the
ftage, 109.

COLLINS, his poetry characterised 411.
CONGETTURA meteorologiche, 305.
CONGREVE, his dramas confidered, 109,

12.

CONSTANTINOPLE, incredible account
of the number of streets in that city,
461.

Coox, Capt. defended, with respect to
his non-difcovery of Cape Circumfion,
494.

CORALS, See Fougt.
CORDARA, Abbé, his military eclogues,
306.

CORREGIO, his beauties, 147.
CORSICA, account of a colony of Greeks
which fettled on that Inland, 306.
CROIX, M. de la, his philofophical re-
flections on the origin of civilization,
and the means of correcting its abules,
382.
Cuckow, remarks on fome prevailing
notions concerning that bird, 264.
CYCLOID, See CLOCK.

D.

D

ARCO, Count, his differtation on
the right of punishing, 464.
De la literattura Allemande, 304. ↑
DEL Fondamento, &c. 464.
DELUGE. See NOAH's flood.
DEPUIS, M. his memoir concerning the
origin of the conftellations, and the il-
luftration of mythology, by means of
aftronomy, 532, 534-
DERBYSHIRE, mineralogical obferva-
tions relative to, 556.
DESCRIPTION de ce qu'il y a d'intereffant
et de Curieux dans la Réfidence de Man-
beim, &c 466.

DIGEON, M. his new Turkish and Ara.
bian tales, 461.

DISCOURS public fur les langues, 462,
DIVINES, polemical, &c. ludicrously de-

fcribed, 424,

DIVINING rod, wonderful account of its
power and properties, 497. See more
under BLE TON.

Docs, cruelly used in the bufiness of
hunting, 217.

DROITWICH, Curious account of the falt
works there, 259.

E.

G.

the Jefuit, curious

I of his concealment at Henlip, and
discovery of, 261.
GENEVA, interesting defcription of that
city, 545 Eminent literati there, 546.
GENTIL, M. le, his voyage in the In-

dian feas, in 1761, vol. ii. 455. His
correfpondence with M. Nux, 458.
GERMANY, progress of defpotifm in that

GRANGE, M. de la, his memoir concern-
ing the conftruction of Geographical
maps, 416.
GRANVILLE, Lord Landfdown, his lite-
rary character, 107.
GRATIAN, Emperor, his character and
condu&t, 29.

CATEL, which reprefents the motions
of the earth, 417.

GRACE. See CAMBRIDGE.
GRANGE, M. de la, his new theory of
the motions of the nodes, and the va-
riations in the inclinations of the or
bits of the planets, &c. 142.

H.

HA

AEFFLIN and Medicus, Mcfirs.
their contributions to literature and
Science, &c. 305.

HALL, WESLEY, fome account of that
ftrange man, 233.

HAMMOND, his elegies characterised,

410.

HEAT compared with electricity, 514..
HENLIP, curious account of the fecretion
there of Garnet the fefuit, &c. 261.
HERCULES, labours of, illuftrated by
astronomy, 535.

HIEL, account of that extraordinary fana-
tic, 317. Of his writings, 318.
HISTOIRE de la Chirurgie, depuis fon eri-
gine jufqu'à nos jours, 461.
HISTORICAL anecdotes of the Grecian

colony which fettled in Corfica, 306.
HISTORISCHE abbandlungen der Baierif-
chen Academie der Wenchaften, 304.
HOGARTH, abstract of his life, 444. His

merits as an engraver appreciated, 451.
HOGENDORP, M. his defcription of the
ifland of Timor, 543.

HOMER, his hymn to Ceres tranflated,
113. Critical note on, 115. Curious
manufcript of his Iliad found in the
library of St. Mark at Venice, 509,
HOOYMAN, M. his account of the pre-
fent ftate of agriculture about Batavia,
542.

HUNGARY. See FERBER.
HUNTING, obfervations relative to the
principles of, 212.

HYDRAULICS. See XIMENES.

IDOL of Paris, what, 228.
INOCULATION of the fmall-pox, reflec

tions on the oppofition to that practice
in Java, 541.
INSECTS, natural fubordination obferva-
ble in their economy, 300. Various
differtations on, 303.
INSURANCE of enemy's fhips, arguments
for and against, 206.
JOSEPHUS. See BRYANT,

003

KABLO,

K.

KABLO, M. his compofition for

painting in wax, 94.
KENNICOTT, Dr. his bible, 121.
KUNKEL's red-glass, experiment relative
to, 512.

Lo

LAND, hirts for regulating the right

of property in,

-, gained from the fea, on the coaft
cf Languedoc, how accounted for, 486.
LANDE, M. de la, memoirs by, on aftro-

nomical fubjects, 485, 486, 492. His
notion of the cause of the tides, 533..
LASSONE, M. de, his obfervations on the
proper ies, &c. of zinc, 483, 491.

-, on ammoniacal falts, 484.
-, on several kinds of air, 492.1
LAVOISIER, M. concerning the calcina-
tion of tin in closed veffels, &c. 140.
"" his memoir concerning me-
tals in calcination, 482.

-, on the nitrous acid, 491.
LAUTERN, univerfity of, for the ftudy of
the science of government, 466.
LAW, John, author of the Miffiffipi bub-
ble, account of, 183, 295.
-LETTERE capricciofe di Fr. Alb. Capa-

celli, &c. 465.

LETTERS of the Abbé Seftini, from Sici-
ly and Turky, 307.

of a traveller concerning the
prefent ftate of Caffel, 465.

鼍

LIBRARY poetically defcribed, 423.
LINNEUS, his fyftem critifed, 267. His
differtation on the increase of the ha
bitable earth, 298. On infects, 303.
, general view of his writings,
374. Honours paid to his memory,
375. His memoir on the cyca, 485.
LOCKE, his principles of civil govern-
ment defended against the Dean of
Glocester, 271, 321, 330.
LorT, Mr. his correspondence with the
Reviewers, 78.

Louis XV. King of France, anedotes of
his private life in his younger days,
242. In his more advanced years 244.
Farther view of his character 250.
More anecdotes, 252, 257.

LYMAN, M. his differtation on the filk-
worm, 303.

M.

ADAGASCAR, fome account of,
MADAN, Mr. his Thelyphthora criticised,
57. 64. Farther strictures on, 162, 182,

MADAGASCA

MAIRE. M. le, (and his wife) fuffocated
by the vapour of a coal-fire, 481.
MANHEIM. See DESCRIPTION,
MANILLA, fome account of, 456.
MAPS. See DE LA GRANGE.
MARGRAFF, M. philofophical experi
ments by, 512.

MARK, St. library of, at Venice, Greek
manuscripts in, 531.
MATERIALISM, doctrine of ridiculed,

421.

MAYER, M. his teftimony in favour of
Mr. Arnold's pendulum clock, 305.
His mistakes on that subject, 349.
MEMOIRS of the Bavarian academy of
íciences, 304.

MENGS the painter, his treatifes on the
fine arts, &c. 143. His life, 523. Lift
of his paintings, 528.
MERIAN, M. his feventh memoir con-
cerning the problem of Molyneux, 520,
MESSIER, M. his observations on the ec-
cultation of Saturn by the moon, 485.
His memoir on the extraordinary cold
felt in France, &c. in 1776, 487.
MEXICO, curious hiftorical particulars
concerning, 463.

MICROMETER, curious one in the cabi
net of the D. de Chaulnes, 544.
MINERALOGICAL obfervations of Dr.

Gualandris, made in his trave's, $47.
MISSISSIPI bubble, rise and progrels of,
183.

MONTE Ro, observations relative to the
natural history of, 557.

MOLYNEUX, his celebrated problem dif-
cuffed, 520.

MONNIER, M. his memoir on the varia-
tion of the loadftone, 137. On feveral
aftronomical fubjects, 48 5, 486, 493, 494.
On the fituation of Cape Circumcifion,
ib. Remarks un, ib.

N.

NA

ATURE, obfervations on the pore
of, or the fubordination discernible
in her productions, 300.
NECESSITY, philofophical, remarks on,
67.

NEGRO, a white one defcribed, 543-
NESSE, or Nafe, derivation of, 98.
NOAH's flood, objections to the fcripture
account of its universality, 268.
NOUVEAUX contes Turcs et Arabes, 461.
memoirs de l'A ademie Royak
de Berlin, 1779, 508.
NOUVELLISTES, of Paris, fatirically
defcribid, 231.

Nuix, Abbé, his reflections on the buma-
nity of the Spaniards in the West In-
dies, 3c8.

Nuove sperienze idrauliche, 310.

PARMENTIIR, M. his inquiries con-
cerning nutritive vegetables, which, in
times of fcarcity, may supply the place
of ordinary food, 460.
PASSAGE, north-west, method of profe-
cuting future attempts for the discovery
of, 164.
PEYRILHE, Dr. his hiftory of surgery
from its crigin to our times, 461.
PHILLIPINE Islands, account of, 455.
Happy climate of, ib.

PHYSIKALISCH, metallurgische abband-
lungen, &c. 467.

PIGNOTTI, M. his meteorological con-
jectures, 205.
PLACE, M. de la, his inquiries concern-
ing feveral points in the mundane fyf-
tem, 485, 496.
PLANITARIUM, defcription of a wonder-
ful one, made by an untaught mecha-
nic, 150.

POETRY. See STANZA.
POISON. See VEGETABLES.
POLE, North. See PASSAGE.
POLYGAMY, the blessings of, difplayed,
293.

Porz, hiftorical remarks relative to his
tranflation of Homer, 354. His ori-
ginal poems appreciated, 360.
POPULATION, of Great Britain, not in
a decreafing state, 231.
PORTAL, M. his memoir concerning the
[fatal] effects of mephitic exhalations,
481.
POT-ASH, hints relative to the making
of, in this country, 47. Enormous
fum paid annually to Ruffia for that
article, ib.
POUGET, M. his mem. on the acceffions
of land, gained from the fea on the
coafts of Languedoc, 486.
PRECIS biftorique et exper, des phenomenes

electriques, &c. 381.
PRETTY, fatirical use of that word in
the Picture of Paris, 228.

460.
REFLEXIONS philosophiques sur l'origine
de la civilifation, &c. 382.
REFORMATION, Proteftant, general hif-
tory, 465.

RHEINISCHE Beitrage zur Gelebrfam-
keit, 305.

ROBERTS, Mr. his letter to the Re-
viewers, concerning the rot in sheep,
398.

ROMANCE, ancient, poetical encomium
on, 424.

ROME, plunder of, by Aleric, remark...
able circumftances attending, 33. By
the troops of Charles V. 37.

ROT, in sheep, inquiry into the cause of,

398.

Rowe, Mr. his poetry confidered, 108.