Limbird on the ftrata of the earth
in Lincolnshire, 347.
Liturgy, ufe of, in public prayer
afferted, 454.
Lobo, Father, his voyage to Abyf-
finia tranflated by Dr. S.
Johnfon, 132. Sketch of Lo-
bo's account of his voyage, ib.
His difcovery of the fource of
the Nile, 134.
Locks, new construction of, 406.
impoffible to be picked,

ib.

inventor of, ib.
Longitude, difference of, between
Greenwich and Paris, 180.

the first attempt to

find it by obfervation, 291.
Luttrel, Mr. cafe of a gangrene,
358.

MAGNETISM, tefts of, 341.

See brass. See compafs. The
beft methods of communicat-
ing it, 342. Several experi-
ments concerning it, 343.
Mangel Wurzel, account of, 166.
A fpecies of beet, 167. Fur-
ther account of, 582. Pecu-
liarly useful as food for cattle,
ib. Produce of crops efti-
mated, 583.
Marshall, Mr. his plan for ob-
taining an accurate knowledge
of provincial practice in
English agriculture, 90. His
account of the Norfolk prac-
ice, ib. His minutes of par-
ticular facts, &c. 91. His
steady purfuit of his plan for
acquiring agricultural know-
ledge, 102.

Mary Queen of Scots, reafons
why her history is obfcure, 472.
The faults of hiftorians who
have written her life, 475.
Her letters to Bothwell fictiti-
pus, 476. Her trial at York,
ib. At Westminster, 478.
Mafkelyne, Dr. on the latitude
and longitude of Greenwich,
179. See Cafini,

Metals, their calcination and re-
duction, 210.

Meteorology, new theory of, 116.
Mid-day, within the Tropics,

poetically defcribed, 284.
Millar, Mr. the late bookfeller,
ftory of, with refpect to his
final payment to Johnson, for
the copy of his Dictionary, 59.
Milton, his Lycidas defended
against Dr. Johnson, 26. His
Samfon arraigned, and vindi-
cated, 67. His treatise on
education not favourable to do-
mestic tuition, 276. Written
to recommend academies, ib.
Minerals, obfcurity of their dif
criminating characteristics, with
refpect to vegetables and ani-
mals, 469.

Mines, defcription of a machine
for draining them, 466.
Monkhoufe, Dr. publishes the
third volume of Clarendon's
State-papers, 50.

Monks, their first establishment in
Ireland, 285. Sources of their
wealth, ib.

Morality and politics, their pro-
per connection, 586.
More, Mr. his account of an
earthquake in the north of
England, 346.
Morgan, Mr. his prize differta-
tion, fhewing that true philo-
sophy has no tendency to un-
dermine revelation, 508. Far-
ther account of that work, 513.
Morley, Mr. his letter to Lord
Hyde, 53.

Mofes, his adventure with the
daughter of Raguel, pious de-
clamation on, 12.

Mufic, parochial, remarks on the
abufes of, 250. Remedies for,
propofed, 251. Ancient Irish
mufic difcuffed, 426.

-, description of a machine
for enabling blind people to
write and read mufical notes,
465. See alfo Arteaga.
Mylne, Mr. on a red earth from
Jamaica, as a fubftitute for
Terras Puzzolana, 468.

NEWFOUNDLAND, value of
our fisheries there estimated,
405.
Newton, Sir Ifaac, his doctrine of

vis inertia defended, 239.
Nile, river, fource of, difcovered,
134.

Nobility of England, many of

them celebrated for their learn-
ing and literature, 232.
Norfolk, account of the hufbandry
and agriculture of that county,
go. County workhoufe there
commended, 236.

incredible damage done
to the farmers in that county,
by the game preserved in kept

OGLE, Thomas, on an enlarged
heart, 360.

Old Maids, at what period of life

does this denomination take
place, 222. Situation of old
maids confidered, 223. Their
credulity, 224. Their curiofi-
ty, ib. Their affectation, 225.
Envy and ill nature, 226. Their
ingenuity, 227. Patience, ib.
Charity, 228. State of old
maidifm in the antediluvian
world, ib.
Opera, Italian, revolutions in that
fpecies of the drama, 545.
Ornithology, books on it imper-
fect without characteristical dif
tinctions, 391.

PAINTERS, what they ought

to imitate, 205.
Painting, not merely an imita-
tive art, 204.

in wax particular-
ly defcribed, 463.
Palmyra, See Volney.
Papifts, to be refifted by Proteft-

ants, but not perfecuted, 251.
Parahelia and halos defcribed,
347.

Parkhurft, Mr. cenfured by Dr.
Priestley, 152. His mode of
reasoning on the doctrine of the
Trinity, 173.

Parliament of England. See No-
bility. See Commons.
Peas, method of fetting, by means
of the dibble, as practifed by
the Norfolk farmers, 98.
Pegu, that kingdom defcribed,

gifton confirmed, 522. Method of determining its quantity in different kinds of air, 551.

Phosphorus, the acid of, examined,

210.

its prefence in fea-wa

ter, 526. Planets, primary, the variations of their motions, 555.. Politics, only a branch of morality, 587. Poor, in England, their alarming increase, 236. The legal provifion made for them faid to exceed the revenue of many princes, ib. Eftimate of its amount, ib.

thoughts on the increase of the poor's rates, 322. Hints toward a remedy, ib. Pope, Mr. his Windsor Foreft criticized, 27:

Popery, remarkable attachment of the royal houfe of Stuart to that religion, 52. The tenets of, juftified, 414. Potatoe, the culture of, recommended to the Norfolk farmers, for their cattle, 94. Prayer, in verfe, compofed by an uneducated mechanic, 159. Prayer, public. See Liturgy. Price, Dr. his Arian hypothefis controverted by Dr. Priestley, 151.

prophecies that religious reformation will keep pace with other improvements, 378. Priestley, Dr. his controverfy with Dr. Horne, 150. With Dr. Price, 151. With Mr. Parkhurft, 152. With various other opponents, 418. His opinions relative to the green fubftance in ftagnant water refuted, 339. Provoft, Dr. confecrated Bishop of New York, 86. Pruffia, Jate king of, the author of his own hiftory, 505. The Berlin edition of his works announced, 583. Particulars re

lating to the manufcript pieces, 584. Of the published works to be reprinted, ib. His friend.. fhip and correfpondence with M. de Suhm, 596. Pruffian officer, a poem, 282. Pfalm xxxix. imitated in blank verfe, 281. Pfalm finging. See Mufic. defended, 509.

Punishments, public. See Crimi nals.

Puzzolana, a substitute for, 468.

QUAKERISM vindicated, with refpect to religious principles and practice, 422. Quakers, of America, ungratefully reprefented by the Marquis de Chaftelleux, 39. Quicksilver first used as a specific in the venereal difeafe, 317. Different forms of, recommended, 318.

RAIN, the formation of, explain

ed, 116. 119. 126. Rawdon, Lord, his fentiments with respect to the laws of honour, 504. Razoumousky, Count, on the phof

phoric light of fea-water, 526. Red Bank, in America, fort of, unfortunately attacked by the Heffians, 41.

Retorts, how to prevent their cracking, during chemical operations, 462.

Revelation and philofophy recon

cileable with each other, 513Revenue of the crown, whence

derived, 257: Landed revenue, how diftinguished from the King's private property, 259. Value of, in Great Britain, 263. Reviewers, verfes to, 375. 493. Rhodes, Mifs, on the manage

ment of filk-worms, 466. Objections to, 467. Ripley, James, the learned hoftler at Barnet, 390. Robertson, Dr. his History of Scot

land,

land, attacked, in regard to
his account of Queen Mary,
475. Additions to that history,
published feparately, for the
ufe of the purchasers of former
editions, 506. Curious account
of Knox the reformer, extract-
ed from those Additions, ib.
Robilcund, ftate of that country,
396.

Roman Catholics of Ireland, con-
troverfy relative to, now fub-
fifting in that country, 75.
414. 417.

See Mangel

Root of Scarcity.
Wurzel.
Roy, Maj. Gen. his arrangements
for meafuring the diftance
betw. Greenwich and Paris, 180
Royalty Theatre, literary contests
concerning, 161.

Rub, Dr. cure of a tetanus, 358.

SALTED with fire, meaning of
that expreffion, 511.
Saturn. See Bugge.
Sauffure, M. de, his theory of
meteorology refuted, 117, &c.
Account of his afcent to the
top of Mont Blanc, 532. Ob-
fervations made by him on
the fummit of that high moun-
tain, 538.

Say, Benjamin, on a fpafmodic
affection of the eyes, 361.
Scepticism, the folly of, 571.
Scott, John, the poet, fome ac-

count of him, and of his writ-
ings, 25. His critical effays
on English poets, 26.
Scrope, Dr. his concern in the pub-
lication of Clarendon's State-
papers, 50.
Scrophula, not always the cause of
fwelled glands, 307.
Scythians, or Goths, origin of, 318.
Seneca, his Epiftles, tranflated by
Dr. Morell, 13. The differ
ent translations of them, 14.
Senfibility, poetic addrefs to, by
Mrs. Yearfley, 486.
Series. See Waring.

Sextius, Quintus, particulars of
his life and writings, 598.
Anecdotes of his followers, 599.
His works, 600.

Sheep, live, obfervations relative
to the clandeftine exportation
of, 71.

Shooting, verfes on, 491.
Silk-worms, how to be managed
in cold feafons, 466. Molt
proper food for, 467.
Sims, Dr. on deafnefs, 359.
Singing, in divine worship, the
practice of, defended, 509.
Sinking fund, confiderations on,

302. How applicable for dif
charging the national debt, 303.
Smeaton, Mr. defcription of an
engine for drawing water out
of mines, 466.
Societies, the mechanism of, 127.
265.

for the encouragement of
rural economics, promoted by
the great in France, but only
by private perfons in England,
and why, 581.
Society, origin of, 19.
Socion, a follower of the philofo-
pher Sextius, 599.
Spafm, an extraordinary one de-
fcribed, 361.

Stage, act for licensing, its hiftory,

60.

Stahl adopts the doctrine of
phlogiston, 207.
Stanhope, Earl, remarks on a

thunder-ftorm, 344.

Stone in the bladder, cured by
fixed air, 360.
Strahan, Mr. biographical ac-
count of, 370. His eminence
as a printer, 371. His friend-
fhip with Dr. B. Franklin, 372.
Strata of the earth at Bofton in
Lincolnshire, 347.

Stuart, family of, remarkable
proof of their attachment to
popery, 52.

Dr. Gilbert, his history
of Mary Queen of Scots de-
fective, 475.

Subm,

Subm, M. de, his correfpondence
with the late K. of Pruffia, 595.
Death-bed letter from, 596.
Sun, its nature falfely investi-
gated, 310. Supposed to be
like a great kitchen fire, 311.
Its light neceffary for producing
dephlogisticated air, 338.
Superftition, one means of fub-
jecting and enflaving mankind,
332.

敷

Surgeons, military and naval, their

qualifications, 218.

~, in the navy, their fitua-
tion compaffionately reprefent-
ed, 412.

Surgery, the prefent state of, 306.
Bad ftate of, in the navy, 412.
Swallows, their torpid ftate dur-
ing winter, 540.
Swayne, Mr. objects to Mifs
Rhodes's management of filk-
worms, 467.
Swinging, its effects in curing
confumptions, 327. Cafes of
cures by, ib. Deemed empi-
ricifm, 328.

Syria, Volney's travels into, 592.

His account of the Druzes
there, ib. Extent and popu-
lation of that country, 593.
Ruins of Palmira, ib. Prefent
state of commerce there, 594.
Great privileges of the Franks,
ib.

TAMERLANE the Great, his

Political and Military Infti-
tutes tranflated into French,
577.

Templars, Knights, account of
their diffolution, 285.
Theatre, act for licensing, origin
of, 60.
Thompson, Sir Benj. experiments
on the production of dephlo-
gifticated air, 337. Refutes Dr.
Ingenhoufz's fyitem, 338.
Thomson's Seafons, ftricture on, 30.
Thunder form, a remarkable one
defcribed, 344. Obfervations
on it, 345.

Trinity, doctrine of, abfurdly in-
troduced into a Preface to Ari-
ftotle's Poetics, 3.

Trooft wyk, M. on the nature of
different aeriform fluids, 528.
Turnips, how cultivated in Nor-
folk, 93.

Tythings, hundreds, and counties,
their first inftitution, 112. The
utility of the divifion, 113.
Tytler, Mr. his hiftorical re-
fearches in favour of Mary
Q. of Scots, commended, 475

VANITY of Human Wifes, a

poem, by Dr. S. Johnson,
fhort account of, 135.
Vapour, how converted into rain,

117. Produces different kinds
of aeriform fluids, 121. Is the
caufe of heat in the lower re-
gions of the atmotphere, 125.
Vegetables, obfcurity of their dif

tinguishing characteristics, 469.
Endowed with perception, ib.
Venereal difeafe, its hiftory, 317.
Firft cured by quickfilver, ib.
Different methods of treating
it examined, 318.
Verses to Mira, on her wedding-
day, 446. See alfo Reviewers.

on a young divine, who was
made the sport of fome frolic-
fome ladies, 494.

Verftap, M. his prize differtation,

fhewing that true philofophy
has no tendency to undermine
revelation, 523.
Vineyards, recommended for cul-
ture in England, 503.
Virtue, philofophically confider-

ed, Dr. S. Johnson's idea of, 65.
Virtue and Ornament, an ode, by

Dr. James Fordyce, 371.
University, hints for the improve-