212; iv, 184; Scotch tunes originally
composed for, 381.
Harriot (pacquet), x, 176.
Harvard University, ix, 584 n.; tele-
scope presented to, i, 72; satire upon,
167; ii, 14; plan for improving the
library, i, 210; iii, 285; confers de-
grees upon B. F., i, 386 and n.; x,
207 n.; upon Granville Sharp, ix,
357 n.; gifts to, iii, 125, 437; V, 199
and n.; vi, 204 and n., 432; pro-
fessorship of natural philosophy, iv,
250 n.; vi, 273 n.; injured by fire,
iv, 251; commencement, vi, 106;
President Willard, x, 146.
Harwich, viii, 575-

Haslar Hospital (Portsmouth), vi, 162.
Hatfield (Yorkshire), a whirlwind ob-
served, iii, 109, 116, 119.

Havana, ii, 361; iv, 304; capture of,
181, 183; x, 240.
HAVRE: vi, 477; vii, 370; x, 326, 327;
B. F. sails from (1785), ix, 324, 325,
327, 351, 352, 353, 360, 363, 365,
366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 466, 468,
472; X, 458, 460, 466, 467; leaves
baggage at, ix, 482, 492; Houdon
sails from, 465; packets sailing from,
576; prize ships, x, 323,

Hayes (seat of Lord Chatham), vi,
350, 351, 363, 365, 367; vii, 149; x,
281, 283, 285 n.
Heat, see Fire.

Hemp, see Agriculture.
Hempfield (Pa.), home of the Wrights,
iii, 57 and n., 94.
Hercules, X, 122;

an unfashionable
deity, vii, 348; strangles the second
serpent, viii, 333, 389, 411.
Hereditary estates, ix, 357; nobility,
270; offices, 154.

Heroes of Science (Garnett), i, 96.
Heroic Postscript (Mason), vi, 233 and

d'accord avec la physique et l'histoire
de Moise (Berthier), v, 93 n.
Historic Side-lights (Arnold), x, 206 n.
Historical Collections (Burton), i, 238;
X, 148.

Historical Manuscripts Commission,
i, 12.

Historical Register, iv, 233 n.
Historical Review of the Constitution
and Government of Pennsylvania,
from its Origin, i, xii; iii, 445; iv,
82 n.; x, 200.

History of All the Navigable Canals in
the World (La Lande), ix, 498.
History of Denmark (De Champigny),
vii, 181 n.

History of Electricity (Priestley), v, 94,
422 n.

History of England (De Champigny),
vii, 181 n.

History of Music (Hawkins), i, 346 n.
History of Pennsylvania (Gordon), iii,
344 n.
History of the Five Indian Nations
(Colden), ii, 240 n., 279 n., 323, 333,
363, 365; iii, 164; V, 480.
History of the Helvetic Republic (Hare-
Naylor), ix, 159 n.

History of Massachusetts, v, 453.
History of the Popes (Bower), iii, 95
and n., 142, 165, 170.

History of the Royal Society (Weld), v,
69 n.

History of the Trouble in the Nether-
lands (Grotius), vii, 423 n.
History of the United States (Pitkin),
viii, 649 n.

History of the University of Pennsyl
vania, A (Montgomery), iii, 126 n.
History of Yellow Fever (Lining), iii,

252 n.
Hochockin, iii, 364.

Holinshed's Chronicle, ix, 358.
HOLLAND: i, 10, 113, 114, 175, 345;
iv, 63, 73, 90, 304; V, 162; vii, 32,
72, 82, 86, 139, 152, 158, 175, 180,
192, 227, 313, 321, 323, 384, 385,
401, 403; viii, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 47, 48,
49, 61, 62, 67, 76, 93, 101, 123, 128,
129, 141, 153, 184, 185, 201, 202, 212,
228, 234, 235, 253, 301, 324, 339, 341,
342, 344, 371, 375, 407, 421, 424, 432,
465, 475, 476, 488, 492, 509, 514, 522,
523, 532, 534, 535, 543, 548, 550, 554,
557, 57, 575, 602, 627, 634; ix, 9, 15,
49, 51, 129, 134, 136, 147, 177, 249,
276, 282, 324, 337, 697; x, 107, 300,
320, 322, 334, 339, 346, 347, 372, 380,
391, 393; Fordyce shipwrecked on
coast of, iii, 133; B. F.'s visit to, iv,
108, 110, 123, 188; understands the
value of cash, v, 9; woollen manu-

Dictionaries, Ainsworth's, ii, 298, 366; |
Chambers's, 155, 375; Coles's, 301;
Dyche's, 301; Gardener's, iii, 396;
Johnson's, 263, 279; Abbé de Pelli-
zer's, i, 206; Perry's Pronouncing,
206.

Dictionary of National Biography, vii,
256 n.; ix, 340 n.
Dieppe, i, 216.

Dignity of Man, The; A Discourse
addressed to the Congregation in
Franklin upon Occasion of their
receiving from Dr. Franklin the
Mark of his Respect in a rich Dona-
tion of Books, appropriated to the
Use of a Parish Library (Emmons),
ix, 301 n.; x, 482.

Dijon, iii, 270; ix, 157, 573.
Directions For Discovering Whether The
Power That Gives The Shock In
Touching The Torpedo Or The
Gymnotus Of Surinam is Electrical
Or Not (F.), v, 539.
Directions For The Drawing Out The
Tone From The Glasses of The
Armonica, Some, vii, 438.
Discours en vers, addressé aux ...
Soldates des . . . Armées Américaines
(Chastellux), ix, 567 n.
Discourses on Natural Religion and
Social Virtues (Foster), iii, 90.
Discourses on Personal Religion (Sten-
net), ix, 300.

Disease of Wheat (Fontana), vi, 141.
Disquisitions on Medicines which dis-
solve the Stone, in which Dr. Chit-
tick's Secret is considered and dis-
covered (Blackrie), ix, 329 and n.
Disquisitiones politicae (Zuirius), vii,
169 n.
Dissertation on the Laws of Lycurgus
(Mathon de la Cour), ix, 362.
Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity,
Pleasure and Pain, A, i, 277, 296;
ii, vi; vii, 411 and n.; x, 154.
Dissertations on the English Language
(Webster), i, 30V, 174 n., 178 n.; x, 75.
Dissertation sula Nyctalopie, ix, 666.
Dnieper River, iv, 60.

Dogood Papers, í, x, 166, 167, 246,
247; ii, vi, 1-49.
Dominique, viii, 634.

Donegall (Pa.), massacre at, iv, 310;

X, 215.

Don Pedro (ship), ii, 361.
Don Quixote, viii, 336.
Don River, iv, 60.

Douglas, Scottish Tragedy (Home), iv,
2 and n.

Douglas's Summaries, iii, 243, 264.
Dover (England), ii, 54; v, 48, 49;
viii, 620; ix, 123, 226, 270, 271, 322.

Downs, ii, 54; ix, 369, 370; 1, 470.
Drafts, the game of, ii, 57.
Drake (English ship), vii, 155, 318;
viii, 224:

Dresden, destruction of, vi, 419.
Dropsy, remedy for the, i, 118, 119.
Drowned flies, resuscitation of, i, 134;
vi, 42, 43.

Dry belly ache, see Lead poisoning.
Dublin, iv, 466; v, 379; viii, 65, 103,
207; ix, 360.

Dublin Journal, x, 80.
Duchesse de Grammont (ship), vii, 184.
Du Gouvernement des Mœurs (Pollier),
ix, 326.

Duhalde, on silk culture, v, 336.
Duke of Leinster (ship), viii, 186; x,
346.

Dumfries, iv, 85.
Duna River, iv, 60.
Dunciad (Pope), i, 272, 423; ii, 242 n.
Dungannon, ix, 102.
Dunkers, i, 368, 369.
Dunkirk, vii, 202, 388, 389; viii, 70 n.

75, 103, 382, 552, 575, 634; x, 395.
Dutch, the, iv, 298; viii, 202, 248, 342,
535, 646; ix, 130, 296; x, 217; ces-
sion of New Netherlands, iv, 40;
an election in Pennsylvania, x, 341;
exchange of prisoners in Holland,
viii, 227; American loans in Holland,
i, 146; viii, 386, 388, 582, 583, 639;
A, 377, 378, 397; "Palatine boors,"
iii, 72; renewal of English treaty, viii,
424; Dutch wit, iii, 98; war with
England, x, 341.

Dutch East India Company, viii, 514.
Dwina River, iv, 59.

E

Eagle (ship), viii, 636.

Earl of Halifax (packet), x, 176.
Earl of Leicester (packet), x, 176.
Earthquakes, causes of, ix, 655; B. F.'s
essay on, i, 54; ii, v; at Lisbon, i,

104.

East India, i, 75; iii, 69; iv, 106; v.
310; vi, 74; viii, 491, 512; ix, 17.
674;, 357.

East India Company, iv, 395; v, 167, 281;
vi, 161, 356; x, 276; sinking of the
stock of, v, 456, 457, 459; vi, 2. 12,
19, 22, 397, 412; bill for demolishing
power of, ix, 146; act authorizing the
exportation of tea duty free, vi, 124.
151, 152, 177, 274; F. suggests com-
pensation to, 179; purchase of
prisoners, vii, 72.

Easton (Pa.), Indian warfare, iïi, 316,
341, 343, 345, 456; x, 185.

Easy Hill (Birmingham), home of John
Baskerville, vi, 126.
Economical Project, An, ix, 183.
Economics (Johnson), iii, 62.
Economistes, vii, 413, and see also Physio-

crats.

Ecton (Northamptonshire), i, 228, 229;
iii, 452; X, 144, 145, 146.
Eddystone lighthouse, vi, 157 n.
Edenton, viii, 79 n., 552.

Edict by the King of Prussia, An (F.),
i, ix, 172, 173; vi, 118-124, 125 n.,
145, 146, 152.
Edict of Nantes, iv, 63.

Edinburgh, i, 71; iv, 123, 132, 382;
V, 401; x, 254; Lord Kames's house,
i, 128; v, 107; its citizens argumenta-
tive, i, 240; its Infirmary, iv, 2;
university honours, x, 276; schools of
medicine, iv, 116, 122, 372; v, 387;
freedom of the city conferred on F.,
X, 201, 203.
Edinburgh, University of, v, 37 and n.,
196 n.; x, 201, 203, 204 and n.
Edinburgh Courant, vi, 292, 293.
Edinburgh Medical Essays (1743), iii,
104 n.

Edinburgh Philosophical and Literary
Essays, iv, 132 n.

Education of a Young Gentleman, Trea-
tise on the (Walker), ii, 387 n.
Edward (British war vessel), viii, 370 n.
Egg Harbour (N.J.), iii, 396.
Egypt, iv, 60, 193; ix, 699, 702; X, 116.
Egypt (Norden), iii, 483.

Elective Franchises Enjoyed By The
Small Boroughs in England, On The,
(F.), ix, 340 and n.

Electrical Experiments on Amber (F.),
iv, 162.

Electrical Progress since 1743 (Prof.
George F. Barker), i, 88 n.
Electricity, see On The Shock By The
Electric Bottle, and the Density of

Glass.

Electricity, i, 53; iii, 52, 60, 98, 352-
354; V, 94, 165, 542; experiments
with Leyden jar, 34, 417-421; ii,
323-332, 454-456; v, 186; the elec-
trophore, vii, 50; viii, 312; F. com-
plimented by Louis XV, 1, 47; iii,
124, 125; identity of lightning and,
i, 50; experiments, 87-113; iii, 247-
258; iv, 131-149, 218, 219; ix, 45,
46; first interest in, i, 374; recog-
nition by Harvard and Yale, i, 386 n.;
the use of points in discharging, ii, 302-
310; recognition of the Royal Society,
364; phenomena of thunder gusts, 394-
423; properties of electrical matter,
423-454; ii, 34-39, 82-85; cause and
effect of lightning, 7-9, 73-76, 269–|

272; accident while making experi-
ment, 32-34; use of sulphur globe,
78-81; experiment with kite, i, 100,
101, 110 n.; iii, 99, 100; controversy
with Nollet, i, 14, 16, 419, 420; iii,
105, 106, 192, 193, 229; direction of
lightning, 147, 148; lightning rods,
148-162, 441; V, 55-60, 138, 139;
speed of electric spark, iii, 171-175;
electrical state of the clouds, 194;
apparatus, 436, 437; V, 394-396;
vi, 142; vii, 50, 51; experiments with
the tourmaline, iii, 479-482; shock
given by the torpedo, v, 539, 540; vi,
220; experiment on amber, iv, 162-
164; theory of magnetism, 250,
251; electricity of fogs, 451-454;
Beccaria's theories, 457-459; ren-
dering meat tender, vi, 44-47; ex-
periments on glass, 52-54; Aurora
Borealis, 221; Volta's experi-
ments, vii, 49, 50; the electrometer,
222 n.; iv, 134; animals killed by
lightning, ix, 108, 109; treatment of
paralysis and epilepsy, 308, 309;
Experiments and Observations
Electricity, i, 15-17; electrical treat-
ment for paralysis, iii, 425-427; ix,
308, 309, 656; x, 85; see also Pow-
der Magazines; Experiments, Ob-
servations, and Facts Tending to the
Support of the Utility of Long
Pointed Rods, ...; Attempt to ex-
plain the effect of Lightning on the
Vane of the steeple of a church in
Cremona; Queries on electricity
from Dr. Ingenhouss; with answers
by Dr. Franklin.

on

Electrical Experiments, March 14,
1755 (F.), iii, 247.

Electricity and Matter (J. J. Thomson),
i, 96 n.

Elegiac poetry, ii, 21-25.
Elements of Criticism (Lord Kames), iv,
3 n., 120, 175, 377.
Elizabeth (English merchantman), iv,
304.
Elizabethtown (N.J.), iv, 103, 104, 105,
202; vii, 314 n.

Eloge of Franklin (Condorcet), iii, 45;

English language, purity of, i, 39–42.
Engraving, new art of, vi, 149-151.
Ephemera, An Emblem of Human Life
(F.), i, 184; vii, 206 and n., 209 n.;
viii, 99 n., 100; x, 408.
Ephemerides de Citoyen, v, 340 n., 405,
409, 534.

Epigrams, i, 108, 122, 130, 131; Bal-
zac's, 44; Turgot's, 47, 197-198;
viii, 213, 214; x, 361; Condamine's,
ix, 181 n., 182.

Epilogue to the Satires (Pope), i, 346.
Epistle of Brutus, discovery of, viii,
98.

Epitaphs, see Dogood Papers; on Miss
Georgiana Shipley's squirrel, v, 439;
vi, 16, 17.
Equinoctial-France, iv, 78.
Erasmus's Colloquies, ix, 306.
Erika, or Purists, x, 87, 88, 91.
Escurial Library, viii, 98.
Esopus (N.Y.), viii, 625; x, 110.
Esprit de Lois, viii, 42 n.

Essai sur les Jardins (Watelet), viii, 100.
Essay on Field Husbandry in New Eng-
land, An (Elliot), i, 83; ii, 383 and n.
Essay on Inoculation for the Small Pox
(Ruston), viii, 151 n.

Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of

the Moderns in his Paradise Lost, An
(Lauder), iii, 93.

Essay on Perfumes (F.), i, iii, viii,
369 n.; ix, 100 n.

Essay on Population (Malthus), i, 143.
Essay on Population of England (Price),
viii, 153 n.

Essay on Projects (Defoe), i, 36, 238;
X, 148.

Essay on Public Men, ii, v.
Essay on Self-Denial, ii, v.
Essay on Taxes and Contributions (Sir
William Petty), i, 146.

Essay on True Happiness, ii, v.
Essay on the Cold produced by Evapo-
rating Fluids (Cullen), iv, 132 n.
Essay on The Drunkard's Dictionary,
ii, v.

Essay on the first Principles of Gov-
ernment (Priestley), v, 229.
Essay on the Method of Study (Johnson),
iii, 62.

Essay on the most effectual means of
Preserving the Health of Seamen in
the Royal Navy, An (Lind), v, 219 n.
Essay on the Natural History of Guiana
(Edward Bancroft), vii, 142 n.
Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematics,

ii, v.
Essay on The Waste of Life, ii, v.
Essays, of Arthur Schuster, i, xx; of
J. J. Thomson, xx; Sir Oliver
Lodge, xx; of William Garnett, |

xx; of Benjamin Rush on Climates,

117.

Essays and Observations, Physical and
Literary, iv, 127 n.

Essays on Electricity (Ellicot), ii, 428 n.
Essays on Government (George Webbe),
i, xi, 171; ii, v.

Essays on the Old Benchers of the Inner
Temple (Lamb), v, 406 n.
Essay upon the Causes of the different
Colours of People in different Climates,
ii, 293 n.

Essays, Watts', ii, 297.
Etampes, i, 6.

Ethics, Elementa (Johnson), iii, 27.
Ethnology, i, 53, 85, 199.

Etudes de la Nature (St. Pierre), vii, 61 n.
Euxine Sea, v, 34.

Evaporation of rivers, iv, 111-116.
Every Night Club, i, 301.

Examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin
In The British House Of Commons,
Relative To The Repeal Of The
American Stamp Act In 1760, The,
iv, 412-448; v, 16, 42, 231 and n.;
X, 229-233-

Exercise, F.'s opinion of, v, 411, 412;
see also Swimming; Preparatory
Notes and History... Concerning
What is Called Catching Cold, Art of
Procuring Pleasant Dreams.
Expériences sur les Vegetaux (Ingen-
housz), vi, 141; viii, 32 n., 311 n.
Experiment towards discovering more
of the Qualities of the Electric Fluid,
An (F.), iii, 38.

Experiments and Observations on Elec-
tricity, i, 15 and n.

Experiments and Observations on Ani-
mal Heat, and the Inflammation of
Combustible Bodies (Crawford), vii,
413 and n.

Experiments in Inoculation (Watson),

V, IOI.

Experiments, Observations, and Facts,
Tending To Support The Opinion Of
The Utility Of Long, Pointed Rods,
For Securing Buildings From Dom
age By Strokes of Lightning (F.), ▾,

420.

Experiments on Air (Priestley), i, 62,
127 n.; V, 551 n.; vi, 226.
Exporting of Felons to the Colonies (F.),
iii, 45.

F

Fable of the Bees, The (Mandeville), i,
278 n.

Fable of the Snake, x, 57.
Fables (Croxall), ii, 301; iii, 22.
Facsimiles (Stevens's), i, 201 n.

Fair Penitent (Rowe), ii, 235.

Fair Play (American brigantine), viii,
113, 205.

Fairfield, burning of, vii, 400 n., 401;
viii, 625; X, 110.
Fairy (English sloop), x, 372.
Fall of Egypt, The, Oratorio of (Hawkes-
worth), iv, 194 n.

Falls of Niagara, iii, 363; iv, 369.
Falmouth (England), B. F. nearly
wrecked off, i, 76, 432, 433; packet
service to America, ix, 394, 395;
X, 175; iii, 419; ix, 148, 226; x, 197.
Falmouth (New England), viii, 625;

215.

Farmers General (collectors of revenue),

ix, 517, 518, 528, 553.
Farmer's Letters (Dickinson), v, 78 n.,

114 and n., 192, 231 and n.; x, 243.
Fearnot (privateer), viii, 13.
Federal Gazette, x, 54 n., 87.
Female Fables, ii, 301.
Fendant (ship), viii, 75
FEVERS: B. F. cures Earl of Buchan,
ix, 20 and n.; cause of, ii, 252, 265;
yellow, 293, 379; and ague, iii, 19;
advice to John Adams, viii, 317; hot
and cold fits, ii, 468-470; B. F.
suffers from intermittent fever, i, 63;
iii, 419-420; vi, 228; putrid fevers,
common in Russia, x, 351; prison dis-
temper, vi, 40; fresh-air treatment,
60; malignant and infectious, viii,
286, 287.

Fez, x, 462.

Fier Rodérique (man of war), viii, 106,
126.

"Filature" (silk society in Philadelphia),
vi, ro n.; X, 277.

Finances of France (Neckar), ix, 286.
FIRE: action of, iii, 86; B. F.'s disser-
tation on, 381; iv, 159-181; nature of,
iii, 384-390; iv, 143, 144; vii, 286 n.;
ix, 199; Cullen's theory of, iv, 116,
121; destruction by, ix, 613; fire
companies, i, 353, 354; protecting
houses from, 353, 354; ii, 205-208;
v, 266-268, 305-307; viii, 346, 347;
Marat's theory of, i, 68; conduction
of heat, iii, 187, 188; see also Protec-
tion of Towns from Fire, Loose
Thoughts on a Universal Fluid, Ac-
count of the New-Invented Pennsyl
vania Fire-Places.

Fire-places, iii, 461-470; iv, 123-126;
V, 109-110; ix, 43, 440-462; see also
Account of the New-Invented Pennsyl-
vania Fire-Places, Description of a
New Stove for Burning of Pit Coal.
FISHERIES: i, 148; v, 87, 232, 469-471,
474, 503; vi, 308, 309, 316; vii, 235,
236; viii, 128; ix, 61; guaranteeing
the, viii, 615, 633, 634, 648; x, 394;
censure of B. F. concerning the, ix,
91, 92 n., 95.

Flamstead House, Maskelyne's resi-
dence, v, 226.

Flanders, iv, 62, 110, 123, 185, 188; v,
63; ix, 70, 697.

Flax, i, 15; ii, 310; iv, 434; V, 503;
viii, 610.

Flora (ship), viii, 65, 101, 103, 106.
Florence, iv, 62; vii, 217, 218.
Florence flask, experiment of the, iv,
133, 136.

Florida, i, 57; iii, 173; V, 113, 116,
239 n., 470, 491, 492, 504, 508, 509,
513, 514, 523 n.; vi, 355, 425, 453;
vii, 100, 151; viii, 491, 634; X, 177,
291, 332; B. F. advises against emi-
gration to, v, 151; motives for settle-
ment of, 470; Spanish success at
Pensacola, viii, 203, 209; cession
to England, x, 176.

Fluids, surface tension of, i, 50-52,

63-65; iv, 177-179; vi, 153-165.
Fluxions, ii, 241 n., 289, 293, 323, 324 n.
Flying Horse (ship), x, 151.
Fontainebleau, the Court at, ix, 111, 152.
Fonthill collection, iv, 408 n.; viii,
596 n.

Foods, Lenery on, ii, 301, 395.
Ford Collection (N.Y.), viii, 267 n.
Forton Prison, near Portsmouth, where
American prisoners were detained,
vii, 161; ix, 72.

FORTS: Allen, iii, 377; x, 184; Beaude-
jour, v, 210; Constitution, vii, 32;
Cumberland, v, 506; Detroit, iv, 213,
214, 440; v, 68; Duquesne, i, 158,
400, 401, 405, 416; iv, 44, 45; V, 92,
216, 217; X, 184; Frontenac, i, 400;
V, 210; George, i, 427, 428; Inde-
pendence, vii, 32; Island, viii, 69 n.;
Lee, vii, 32; Louis, viii, 370; Niag-
ara, v, 113; Oswego, 113; Pitt (Du-
quesne), 113, 497, 499; ix, 648;
Stanwix, v, 480, 486, 487, 488, 489,
521, 522; Washington, vii, 32;
William Henry, v, 211.

Fox's Martyrs, friends of C. J. Fox who
had lost their places, x, 357.
FRANCE: i, 1, 5, 7, 9, 12, 32, 40, 112,
114, 146, 156, 197, 200, 202, 361,
386, 392; iii, 70, 234, 319, 359, 483;
iv, 39, 40, 46, 47, 50, 57, 61, 63, 65,