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the moisture of, how observed,
116. The component parts of,
121. Electricity of, 126.
Atterbury, bishop, his connexion
with Father Courayer, 356.
Noticed by the lieutenant of
police, ib.

Attraction of cohesion, remark-
able inftance of, 381.

BAlloons, Air, remarks on, 449.

Bards, and Druids, Irish, va-
rious particulars relative to,
426-438.

Bardees, filence of history with
regard to them, ib.
Barometer, objections to its ufe in
measuring heights, 537-
Baskerville's types employed in
printing the works of the late
King of Pruffia, 585.
Baxter, Mr. defcribes a fet of ha-
los and parahelia, 347.
Beccher, Mr. firft defcribed phlo-
gifton, 207.

Bellenden, William, a Scotch
writer, fome account of him, and
of his writings, 504. Extraor-
dinary preface to the new edi-
tion of fome of his Tracts, 505.
Bennet, Mr. defcribes a new elec-
trometer, 339.

Black Eagle, a fong, by Dr. James
Fordyce, 377-

Blind People, method of teaching
them to write and read mufic,
465.
Blood, obfervations on the circu-
lation of, 327.
Boethius, fome account of him
and his writings, 197. His
notion of happiness, ib.
Bramah, Mr. the inventor of
locks, on a new construction,
that cannot be picked, 406.
Brafs, not magnetical, 341.
Brekes, Captain. See Cafricom.
Brooke, Henry. See Gustavus.
Brown, Dr. William Laurence,
his Prize-differtation on Scep-
ticifm, 571.

Brown, Sir Thomas, the pomp of

his ftyle and diction reflected in
the writings of Dr. S. Johnson,
69.

Bruning, M. on the depth of ca-
nals, 527
Bryant, J. F. pipe-maker and
poet, fome account of, 159.
Specimen of his poetry, ib.
Brydone, Mr. his account of a re-
markable thunder-ftorm, 344-
Buchanan, the hiftorian, influ-

enced by Q Elizabeth, to mif-
reprefent Mary Q. of Scots,
473.

Bugge, Profeffor, determines the
place of Saturn's defcending
node, 177.

Bunbury. Mr. his humorous aca-

demy for grown horsemen, 389.
Button, Sir Thomas, his voyage
for finding a north-weft paffage,
291. His Journal löft, 292.

CAGLIOSTRO, Count, ob-

fervations on his adventures,
and fufpicious character, 247.
Calonne, M. de, his address to the
King of France, 363.
Camphor-tree, natural hiftory of,
554-

Canals, the depth of, increased
by streams, 527.
Cafaux, Marquis de, his corre-
fpondence with the Monthly
Reviewers, 88.

Caffini, M. refuted by Dr. Maf-
kelyne with respect to the
longitude and latitude of
Greenwich, 180.

Caftillon, M. on gnomonics, 555.
Caftricom, Captain, and Brefkes,

their voyage to examine the
N. E. coaft of Tartary, 297-
Cavallo, Mr. his magnetical ex-
periments, 341.

Celfus, a fcholar of Sextius, 60c.
Chaftellux, Marquis de, his ac-

commodations, &c. in his
American travels, 39.
Cheefe, Mr. his machine for
teaching blind people to write
mufic, 465.
17

Chemistry,

Chemistry, general divifion of,
469.

Chefs, hiftory of the game of,
312. Account of the various
treatifes written concerning it,
ib.
Chesterfield, Earl of, his writings
compared with thofe of Dr.
S. Johnfon, 458. His oppo-
fition to the act for licenfing
dramatic compofitions, 60.
Christianity, its truth referred to
one great argument, drawn from
Isaiah, vii. 1-16. 267. See
alfo Philofophy, and Revela-

tion.

Chronology, remarks on, 319.
Cicero, obfervations on his firft
Tufculan, 556.

Clergy, fermon preached againft
fuch of them as are of blame-
able conduct, 421.
Clouds, formation of, 126.
Collins, Mr. his Oriental Eclogues
praised, 29.

Colman, Mr. his thoughts on
public education, 275. Pro-
feffedly written in answer to
Mr. Locke, ib. Extracts from,
ib. His ode relative to Dr.
Johnfon, 279. His imitation
His imitation
of Pfalm xxxix. 281.
Comet, a new one, fee Herfchel.
Commons, British House of, a
fchool for eloquence, 233.
Not an adequate reprefenta-
tion of the people, 234.
Compass, variation of, confidered,
343.

Commerce, internal, increases po-
pulation, 130.

external, diminishes
national industry, ib.

of England, estima-
tion of, 237.
Conftitution of the English go-
vernment, a medley of other
forms, 234. Comparative view
of its advantages and difad-
vantages, 235. Juft idea form-
ed of it, by a French authorefs,
565.

APP. Rev, Vol. LXXVII.

Cook, Captain, vindicated against
Dr. Forfter, 293.

Cooke, Mr. his new edition of
Ariftotle's Poetics, 1. His
Greek tranflation of Gray's
Elegy, 9.

Counties, English, utility of their
divifion into tythings and hun-
dreds, 113.
Courayer, Father, his intimacy
with Bishop Atterbury, 356.
Craffitius, a famous teacher at
Kome, 599.
Criminals, the public punish-
ments of, their defign, 153.
Effects of, inefficacious, 154.
Plan for reforming, ib.
Crokat, James, a great literary
projector, 31.

Crown lands, two kinds of, 259.
At prefent confounded, ib.
Cullum, Sir Thos. on a remark-
able exfoliation, 360.
Curfe of the earth, on the fall,
hypothefis concerning, 182.

DAVY, Major, his translation

of the Inftitutes of Tamer-
lane, compared with that of
M. Langlès, 578.
Deafness. See Sims.
Debt, national, method for dif

charging, 302. Its magnitude
at the beginning of 1786,
304.
Dedications, how they ought to
be written, 461.

De Foe, Daniel, fketch of his
life, 459.
His character as a
writer, 460.
Denham, Sir John, his claim to
reputation as a poet queftioned,
26.

Dieman, Dr. on the nature of dif-

ferent aeriform fluids, 528.
Discoveries, made in the northern
feas, 290. The Dutch ac-
counts deemed inconfiftent with
each other, 297. That hypo-
thefis groundless, 298. See
Voyages.

Diversions of the field, as prac
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his memory defended a-
gainft the afperfions of Sir John
Hawkins, 62.

EARTH, propofals for afcer-
taining the figure of, 181.

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ftrata of, in Lincoln-
fhire, 347. Change of the
earth immediately after the
Fall, fuppofed to have been
total, 182. See alfo Curfe,
and Globe.
Earthquake, account of one in

the north of England, 346.
Earths, the tranfmutations of,
554.
Education, public, arguments in
favour of, 275. Hints for the
improvement of, ib.

--, intellectual, new plan
of, 543. The fynthetic me-
thod difapproved, ib. See

alfo Milton.
Egan, Dr. his method of teaching
boys to fpeak Latin, 463.
Obtains a premium for it, 464.
Egypt, Volney's travels into,
589. Hot and dreadful fouth-
erly winds there, 590. Ter-
rible effects of, 591.
Englishmen, their liberty, whence
derived, 231. In what re-
fpects inferior to German free-
dom, 232.
Their House of

Commons a fchool of elo-
quence, 233. Their military
power by fea and land, 235.
Their poor, 236. Their com-
merce, ib.

Elearicity of the atmosphere,
126.

Electrometer, new one described,
339. Variety of experiments
on, 340.
Elephanta, island of, wonderful
caverns in, defcribed, 207.
Elizabeth, Queen, her duplicity
with refpect to Mary Queen
of Scots, 477. Her project
with Murray for the deftruction
of Mary, 480. Her history
written by a French lady,
561.
Elocution, new method of teach-
ing, 202.

Ethics better understood by the
moderns than by the ancients,
13.
Exfoliation, remarkable instances
of, 360. 362.

FABIANUS ftudies under Sex-
tius, 589.
Faith, implicit, in the opinions
of our forefathers, inexcufa
ble, and injurious to truth,
149.

Farmers, in Norfolk, peculiar
advantages poffeffed by them,
96. Excellent character of
their labourers, 97.
Fabion, the followers of, fatir-
ized, 375.

Feuds, or feudal power, prior to
the Norman Conqueft, 110.
When introduced into Eng-
land, ib.

Fielding, Henry, his writings
arraigned, and vindicated,

66.

Fire, falted with fire, &c.
Mark, ix. 49, 50. Meaning
of that expreffion, 511.
Fisheries, British, plan for im-
proving, 73.

the propriety of efta-
blishing

blishing them on the coaft of
Scotland and the Hebrides,
444. Their prefent ftate im-
perfect, 445.
Fisheries, Newfoundland, efti-
mate of the value of, 405.
Forces of Great Britain, y land
and fea, general eftimate of,235.
Fordyce, Rev. Dr. poems by,
376. Specimens of, 377.
Formey, M. on the firft Tufculan
of Cicero, 556.
Forfter, Dr. his abufe of the me-
mory of Capt. Cook repre-
hended, 293.

France, on the eve of fome revo-
lution in government, favour-
able to liberty, 561. Her im-
policy in affifting America
against England, 562.
Franklin, Dr. Benj. teftimony to
his great character, 44.

not the in-
ventor of the Swimming anchor,
256.

his friend-
fhip and correfpondence with
Mr. Strahan, 372.

GAME, vaft damage done
by, to the farmers in Nor-
folk, 101.
Gauden, Bishop, expressly de-
clared to have been the author
of Icon Bafilike, 54.
Genefis, Mr. Dawfon's tranflation
of fome parts of, 140.
Georgium Sidus. See Herfchel.
Gerard, M. on the tranfmutation
of earths and ftones, 554.
Giffard, Mr. his inftrumentality
in caufing the act for licenfing
the ftage, 60.
Gleditfch, M. his natural history
of the camphor-tree, 554.
Globe of the earth, its age contro-
verted, 183.

Guomonics, the theory and prac-

tice of, 555
Godfchal, Mr. a contributor to-
ward the publication of Cla-
rendon's flate-papers, 51.

Golden Rump, a play, occafions
the act for licenfing the stage,

60.
Goldsmith's Deferted Village cha-
racterized, 30.

Goodall, Mr. the first who fuc-
cefsfully attempted to clear up
the hiftory of Mary Queen of
Scots, 474

Goths. See Scythians.
Government, nature of the Eng-
lish, sentiments of different
writers relative to the changes
which it has undergone, 107.
Grand, M. le, publishes Lobo's
voyage to Abyffinia, 132.
Tranflation of that work. by
Dr. Johnfon, ib.
Grange, M. de la, on the varia-
tions of the motions of the
primary planets, 555.
Gray, Mr. his Elegy tranflated
into Greek, 9. That poem
defended against Mr. Knox,

29.

Greenland (Mifs) on the Grecian
method of painting in wax,
463.
Greenwich, the latitude of, 179.
distance of, from
Paris. See Roy.
Gulph Stream, particularly de-
fcribed, 481. Caufes of, in-
vestigated, 482. Directions
to navigators for croffing it,
483.

Guillam, Capt. his voyage to
Hudfon's Bay, 292.
Guftavus Vaja, a play; citations
from, to evince its political
tendency, 65.
Guthrie, Mr. the real author of
Milton's Apotheofis, generally
fuppofed to have been written
by Dr. S. Johnfon, 69.

HAAFF, M. his cure of the
incarcerated entero-epiplo-
hydrocele, 526.

Hafez, the Perfian poet, a vo-
luptuous writer, 184. His
Odes tranflated, 185. Speci-
Tt2

men

men of, as tranflated by Sir W.
Jones, ib. The fame by Mr.
Nott, 186. Critical remarks
on, 188. Farther fpecimens,
and obfervations, 189.
Hall, James, his voyage to Weft
Greenland, 291. Finding the
longitude by observation, first
attempted by him, ib.
Halo. See Parahelia.
Hanway, Jonas, anecdotes con-
cerning, 220.

Happiness, ideas of, as conceived
by Boethius, 197.
Harrifon, John, diffolves a ftone
in the bladder by fixed air,
360.
Hawkins, Sir John, characterized
as a biographer, 56. As an
egotift, 57. As a relater of
facts, 58. As a book-maker,
59. As a politician, 63. As
a moralift, 64. As a critic,
67. As an editor, 69.

Lift
of the pieces given by him, in
his edition of Johnson's works,
70.
Herschel (Mifs) discovers a new
comet, 177.

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Dr. his remarks on ditto,

Discovers two fatellites

belonging to the Georgium
Sidus, 179.

, Difcovers three volcanos
in the moon, 346.
Hertzberg, Count de, his decla-
ration refpecting the intended
edition of the late King of
Pruffia's works, 584.
Heffelink, M. his prize differtation
on the folly of fcepticism, 576.
Heffian troops, in the pay of Great
Britain, their unfuccefsful at-
tack on the Red Bank fort, 41.
Highlands of Scotland, the western

coaft of, defcribed, 443. The
miferable condition of the in-
habitants, ib. The ftate of
agriculture, ib. Means of im-
proving, 444.
Highlanders of Scotland, the
wretchedness of their fituation

poetically reprefented, 439.
England pathetically exhorted
to affift them, 441.
Hiftory, compilers of the univer-
fal, 32. Who the first pro-
jectors of that work, 31.
Hiftory of Mary Queen of Scots
obfcure, 472. Reasons why,

473. First elucidated by Mr.
Goodall, 474

Holland, ftate of parties in that
republic, for feven years paft,
364. Encomium on the Stadt-
holder, 367.

Hooper, Mr. on the hydrocepha
lus, 359.

Horsemanship, humorous inftruc-
tions in, 389.

Hofpital, Westminster lying-in,
account of, 408.

Hofpitals, their use as fchools of
medicine, 542.

Hudson's Bay, relation of a voyage
to, in 1611 and 1612, 291.
Remarks on the Hudson's Bay
Company, 292.

Hume, David, his hiftory of our
conftitution deficient with re-
gard to the earlier periods, 107.
cenfured for his partial
account of Mary Queen of
Scots, 475.

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miftaken in his idea of the
literary abilities of women, 563.
Humility, Chriftian, defined and
explained, 147:

Hurry, Mr. tried for perjury, 322.
Obtains a verdict, with 3,000l.
damages, 323.

Hydrocele, a remarkable one cured,
526.
Hydrodynamics, the principles of,

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