O.

MONTESPAN, Mad. de, curious

ftory of her parting from Louis
XIV. 61.

MOOR-PARK described, 346.

impenetrable, 479.

MOTION, a particular law of, de-
monftrated. See JONES.
MOULT, Mr. his method of pre-
paring Salep from the root of the
orchis, 205.
MOUNIER, M. le, his new method
of afcertaining the quantity of
the horizontal refraction, 523.
MOUNTAINS, produced by vol-
canos, 201.

Music, ingenious enquiry into the
theory of, 551.

N

N.

ABI EFFENDI, a Turkish
poet, his fenfible obf. on
poetry, 429. His excellent
verfes on the fpring, 430.
NARSETES, the famous eunuch
and warrior, his rife at court,
and progrefs in the armies of the
Emperor Juftinian, 103.
NEEDHAM, Mr. his curious fyf-
tem relating to microscopical
animalcules in vegetable and
animal infufions, 208. HS
conjectures on a fuppofed con-
nection between the hierogly-
phical writing of ancient Egyp-
tians, and the characteristic wri-
ting of the Chinese, 318.
NEGROES, their customs compared
with thofe of the Jews, 550.
NEWTON, his phyfical principles
reconciled with the metaphyfics
of Leibnitz, 545.
NOLLET, Abbé, his account of
fome new hydroftatical pheno-
mena, 518.

NUMA, his quackery applauded,
V 531.

racter vindicated from the
charge of cowardice, 8. See
more of him under AUGUSTUS.
ODE, Perfian, translated, 427.
OIL, made from American ground-
nuts, fome account of, 206.
from beech-maft,
537-
OPTICS, curious memoir on, by
M. L. Euler, 541.
ORCHIS, how to prepare for falep,

205.

ORIENTAL writers, feveral com-
mended, 425. Their historians,
ib. Their poets, 426. Their
phyficians, ib.

ORNANCE and Julia, ftory of. 48.
OSBECK, Mr. an attentive obferver
in his travels, 397:

OS HUMERI. See WHITE.

PAIN

P.

AIN and pleafure compared,
with respect to their different
intenfities, &c. 548.

PAINTING, ftudents in, directions
to, with regard to the imitation
of the ancients, 377.
PAPER, a natural fort, found at
Cortona, 206.

PARABLES, the mode of inftruc-
tion by, confidered, 440.
PENAL laws, ftrictures on the fe-
verity of those which affect the
lives of criminals, 85. Princi-
ples of, investigated, 444.
PERSIAN ode, 427.
PERSIANS, modern, fome account
of their manners, by a late tra-
veller, 159.
PHILIP I. King of France, his
bickerings with England, 567.

II. his contefts with the
King of England, 570.
PHILOSOPHER, dialogue between
one and a Whig, 39.

philofopher, 584.
PHYSICIANS, chiefly abound in
great cities, and why, 530.
PINS, extraordinary cale of three
fwallowed by a girl, and di-
charged at her fhoulder, 211.
PLANTS, elementary nourishment
of, 256.
PLEASURE compared with pain,
in respect of duration and inten-
fity, 547.

PLUTARCH, his character as a phi-
lofopher, 2. His, amiable be-
nevolence, 4

POETS, eatern, not deftitute of

tafte, 429.

ALEP, how to prepare, from

the vegetable roots of this
country, 205.

amination of, 8.
POPULATION, remarks on, 15.
PORTUGAL, account of the fpecie
remitted from, to Britain, from
1796, to 1769 inclufive, 495.
PRESSENTIMENT, enquiry con-
cerning, 549.

PRICE, Dr. his obf, on the ex-
pectations of lives, &c. 136.
PROBLEM. See GEOMETRY.
PUNISHMENTS, legal, by death,
reflections on, 85.

corporal, useful re-

marks on, 445.

52.

SCIPIO, Africanus, his quackery,

531.

SEA, the luminous appearance of,
accounted for, 329.
SENECIO farrenicus, the great in-

gredient of the Swifs arquebu-
fade water, 415.
SHAKESPEARE, Johnson's edit, of,
remarkable ftricture on, 532.
SHORT-HAND, remarks on, 69.
SIGNS of the times, as obferved by

the Bishop of Carlisle, in his fer-

mon on the 30th of January, 263.
SIMPLICITY, in poetry, obf. on,
429.
SPARTANS, of old, their strong
attachment to
their country,
507, et feq.
SPECULA. See HOFFMAN.
SPRING, beautifully celebrated by
a Turkish poet, 430. The fame
imitated by a Reviewer, 431.
STEPHENSON, Mr. his fantaftic
manner of writing on busban-
dry, 233.

STEUART, Mrs. Jean, her cha
racter for piety, &c. 313. Her
Meditations cenfured for their
fanaticiim, 314.
STILLINGFLEET, Mr. his tras
on natural history, &c. extolled,
239.

STRANGE,

THIERAULT, M. his determina-
tion of the question, whether the
first authors of any nation have
written in verfe or in profe,
551

THIEF, Curious method of detect-

ing one, 530.
THUNDER, remarkable effects of,

on the tower of a church in De-
vonshire, 320. Method of pre-
venting the like, ib.
TIME, in the fcience of mufic,
theory of, 121.

TOREEN, his voyage to Surat,
404.

TURKISH poets, feveral of them
commended, 429.
TYNE-WATER, analyfis of, 221.

VILLARS, the quack, curious
anecdote of, 530.

VINLAND, originally a part of N.
America, 181.

VIRGIL defended, with refpect to
the character of Eneas, 220.
VISME, Mr. his account of a
very fingular kind of monkey,

207.
VOLTAIRE, M. his difcoveries in
nat. hift. ridiculed, 25. His
dialogues in the shades with So-
crates, Julian, &c. 28. His dif-
pute with the Bishop of Anneci,
34. His mifreprefentations of
the fcriptures detected, 460.
His remarkable ftrictures on
Johnfon's edit, of Shakefpeare,
532. See alfo QUESTIONS, &C.

W

W.

ALLS, an excellent
coping
for, recommended, 479.
WAR, art of, remarks on, 355-
Want of a school for, lamented,
356. Partizan, duty of, 357.
WATER, analyfis of that of the
Tyne, 221. Curious hydrofla-
tical phenomena of water, 518.
See alfo LAKE.
WATERS, chalybeate, &c. difco-
veries tending to the production
of excellent artificial ones, 323-
326.

WATSON, Mr. his defcript. of the

lymphatics of the urethra and
neck of the bladder, 213.
WESLEY, Mr. his religious zeal
difcuffed, 73.

WEST-INDIAN, a comedy, critique

on, 142.

WESTON, Mr. his tracts on huf-
bandry detailed, 299.
WHEAT, experiments in the cul-
ture of, 303. Comparison of
profit between the old and new
husbandry, 378.

WHITAKER,

WHITAKER, Rev. Mr. fome account of his death, 82. WHITE, Mr. his account of a remarkable cafe in furgery, 211. WHITEFIELD, George, his religious zeal animadverted on, 73. WOMEN, in Perfia, their remarkable modefty, 160. Their equality with the men, in the ancient northern nations of Europe, 184. Woods, groves, &c. in the grand Oops, groves, &c. in the grand ftyle of gardening, how to defign, 348.