the monthly review or literary journal

COMPENDIO della floria geografica, &c.
224.

CONCHOLOGY, difficulties attending the
ftudy of, 92. Account of the most
celebrated authors on this fubject, ib.-
Cook, Capt, receives the honorary me-
dal of the Royal Society, 396. Ac-
count of his fecond voyage round the
world, 267. 457. His recommenda-
tion of Mr. Magellan's new conftruc-
tion of Hadley's quadrant, 549.
COPENHAGEN, Society of Sciences there,
prize queftions propofed by, for the
year 1777.

COPLEY, Sir George, his honorary me-
dal, awarded to Capt. Cook, for his
account of improvements in the me-
thods of preferving the health of fea-
men, 396.

COTTON, art of dying, both in the thread
and in the piece, 218.
COUNCILS, general, held by the Fa-

thers, &c. curious account of, 300.
Ill effects of depending on their autho-
rity, 301.

COURS de phyfique experimental & theo-
rique, 220.

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Fnary improved in France, 557-

ALCONER, Mr. his Marine Dictio-

FERBER, Mr. account of him, and of
his travels, 29.

FLAGELLATIONS, yoluntary, curious
account of, 360.

FONTANA, Abbé, his philofophical re-
fearches concerning the nature of ni-
trous air, and air deprived of its phlo-`
gifton, 220.

FORDYCE, Dr. G. his account of the
light produced by Inflammation, 376.
FORSTER, Mr. his motives for publifh-
ing an account of Capt. Cook's fecond
voyage round the world, 267.
FOUGEROUX, M. his description of a
fea infect, 545. His experiments on

the confolidation of certain bones in
the feet of fome quadrupeds, 546.
FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin, vindicated,
against the Dean of Gloucefter, 145.

AMING, warm and just invective
I against, 169. Propofal for better
laws againft, 171.

GEBELIN, M. his Monde Primitif, con-
tinuation of, 384.

GENTIL, M. Le, his account of the
aftronomy of the Indians, 546.
GENTLENESS, account of that amiable
quality, 283.

GENTOOS, code of their laws, 368.
GERDIL, F. his effay on theological in-
ftruction, 225.

GIRONCOURT, M. de, his treatise on
the Treasurers of France, and Directors-
general of the Finances, 385.
GISCKE, Dr. his publication of medical
differtations, &c. by a fociety at Ham-
burgh, 226.

GREEKS, remarks on their fpirit and
genius, during Alexander's conquefts,
424.

GRIFFITH, Dr. his remedy in hectic
and flow fevers, &c. 228.
GRIMOARD, Chev. de, his effay on bat-
tles, 388.

GUASCO, Marquis, his Antient In-
feriptions of the Collection kept in the
capitol, 225.

ADLEY. See QUADRANT.
HAMILTON, Sir William, his
curious remarks and delineations of
Vefuvius, &c. 380.

HARRISON, John, account of his life,

181 His feveral machines for mea-
furing time, 182.

HARTLEY, Dr. his theory of the hu-

man mind, its dangerous tendency, 82.
HASTINGS, Governor, his laudable en-
deavours to obtain a competent know-
ledge of the Gentoo laws, 369.
HENLEY, Mr. his experiments and ob-
fervations on a new apparatus for ex-
hibiting perpetual electricity, 373.
HEROD, the feveral perfons of that name
in the New Teftament identified, 195.
HISTOIRE du Bas empire, tom. XIX, and
XX. 387.

De la Lorrain, ib.
Generale de Provence, ib.
HOLDEFREUND, M. his remarkable
cafes in the practice of phyfic, 225.
HOMER, Cunick's tranflation of into La-
tin verfe, 384.

Jews, faid to have offered human facri-
fices, 511.

INCAS, or deftruction of Peru, 216.
INQUISITION, origin, and horrid ef
fects of, in Spain, 242.

INTRODUCTION to the general harmony
relative to the gods, 226.

JOHN, the Baptift, critical remarks on
his baptifm, 196.

KALENDAR, the civil, religious, and

KOELBUTER, Mr. his account of a new
hift. of, 337-340.
plant, of the mule kind, 529.
KOLBEN, his character, as a faithful re
lator of his travels, against Abbé de la
Caille, 458.

KRAFT, Mr. his memoir on the force
of oars, 526.

ABOUR, the proportional value of,
to the price of commodities can-
vaffed, 118.
LAVOISIER, M. his experiments on the
deftruction of diamonds by fire, 542.
on the use of spirit of wine
in the analysis of mineral waters, 547.
LAW, &c. treatife on by F. Cerboni, 384.
LE BEAU, M. his Hiftory of the Lower
Empire, Vols. XIX. and XX. 387.
Le Roi, M. his treatife concerning
prognoftics in acute difeafts, 387

LETTERS

LETTERS of the foreign miffionaries,

334 collection, 385.
LEYDEN, interefting narrative of its me-
morable fiege, 345. Extreme mifery of
the inhabitants, 348. Providential in-
terpofition in their favour, 350.

pbial, new refults of electri-

cal experiments with, 491.
LIGHT produced by inflammation, obf.
on, 376.

LISTER, Dr. account of his conchology,

92. Huddesford's edition of, 93.
LOUIS XI. of France, remarkable ac-
count of his death, 114.
LUTHER, Martin, his life, 183.
LYCHNI-cucubalus, account of, 530.

MAGI, whether Jews or Heathens,

195.
MARMONTEL, M. his Incas; or de-
ftruction of Peru, 216.
MATTHEW, St. various celebrated paf-
fages in his gofpel, critically explained,
195, & feq.

MAUPERTUIS, M. his quarrel with
Voltaire, 107.

MEDICAL diflertations, &c. by a fociety
at Hamburgh, 226.

MERCADIER, M. his new fyftem of
mufic, 386.

MESSIAH, characters of, verified in Je-
fus, 217.

MILDEW, Curious German treatise on,
explaining its mifchievous effects, with
the remedies for them, 219.
MONTAGUE, Mr. Edward Wortley, cu-
rious account of, 534.
MORALE du Citoyen du Monde, 219.
MOUNT St. Michael, in France, defcrip-
tion of, 115. Knights of, 116. Re-
markable prifon of, ib.
MUSE1 Capitolini, &c.
Sec GUASCO.
Music, new fyftem of, by M. Merca
dier de Belefta, 386.

ib.

treatife on, by M. Bemetzrieder,

that of New Zealand, &c. fpeci-
mens of, 463-466.

NATURALIST, his purfuits ftrongly
tend to religion, 91.
NEEDHAM, Mr. his hypothefis con-
cerning the generation of crganized
bodies, combated, 222. Vindicated
against the charge of favouring mate-
rialism, 512.

NEW ZEALAND, mufic of, 463-466.

ARS, of a new kind, 526.
a, of, impofed by authority not

forbidden in fcripture, 197.
OBSERVING, the art of, 493.
O-MAI (Omiab) the Otaheitean, fome
account of, 269. Manner of his equip
ment for his return to his own coun-
try, 270.

OPUSCULI di fifica animale, &c. 222.
382.

ORANGE, William I. Prince of, his
character, 245.

ORATOR, Cicero's idea of the qualifica-
tions of, 89.

ORTHODOXY, difficulties in which the
prefent fyftem of, has involved Chrif
tianity, 297.
OTAHEITE, pleafing defcription of,
459. Inhabitants of, a friendly and
amiable people, 461, & feq.
OVAL ORIFICE, or Foramen Ovale, me-
moirs concering its ufe in directing the
motion of the heart, 527.

PAPON, M, kis hift. of Provence, 387.

PASSIONS, excellent fermon on the
diforders of, 270.

PATONILLET, F. his continuation of
the Lettres edifiantes et curieufes ecrites
des Miffiones etrangers, &c. 385.
PEARCE, Dr. Zachary, Bp. of Rochef-
ter, account of his Life, 123. His
Commentary on the Evangelifts, &c.
194. His controverfial writings, 206.
PEYRILHE, Dr. his prize differtation on
the cancer, 386.

PITT, Mr. his great character, 293.
POETRY, great advantages derived to the
profeffors of, from an acquaintance
with natural hiftory, 340, et seq.

ATURAL hiftory, an acquaintance POLIGNAC, Cardinal de, encomium on,

N with, neceffary to excellence in

556.

POLITIAN, Angelo, his Orfeo published
entire, 221.

PR-

ROUSSEAU, John James, erroneously
fubftituted for Baptift Rouffeau, 50.
The mistake rectified, 103.
ROWLEY, the Monk, his poems where

faid to have been difcovered, 257. The
question concerning their authenticity
agitated, 258. Specimens of, 260.
Arguments and teftimonies in favour
of their genuineness, 321. Exterior

SEGER, J. S. Michael, his treatife on
mildew, 218.

SESTINI, Abbot, his defcription of the
coll. of antiquities and natural hif-
tory, in the pofleflion of the Prince of
Bifcari, 383.

SLAVES, numbers of, in the French
American colonies, 553. Propofal for
an improvement in the laws relative to
them, ib.

SMITH, Adam, his doctrine with respect
to the value of labour compared with
the prices of commodities, contravert-
ed, 118.

SPADA palace, at Rome, defcribed, 62.
SPALANZANI, Abbet, his philofophical
treatifes relative to the animal and ve-
getable worlds, 222.

vol. II. 382.
STEAM-ENGINE, account of improve-
ments in, 38.

STERNHEIM, Sophia, the memoirs of,
afcribed to their true author, 487.

evidence, 445. Farther specimens of, VILLA ALBANT, in Italy, described,

446.

63.
VOLCANOS, various opinions relative to,
33-36. Sir W. Hamilton's curious
account and drawings of, 380.
VOLTAIRE, M. his education, 47. His
earliest writings, ib. Acquires riches,
48. And enemies, 49. And the
friendship of the King of Pruffia, 50.
His Merope, 53. His refidence at the
court of King Stanislaus, 104. Is in.
vited to live at Berlin, 105. His happy
manner of paffing his time there, 106.
His Oreftes, ib. His quarrel with
Maupertuis, 107. Quits Berlin in dif-
grace, 108. Purchases eftates in Swif
ferland, 109. His benevolence to the
country people, 110. His hatred of
perfecution, ib. Various inftances of

his

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