A

Abbeville (France), v, 49.
Aberdeen, University of, ix, 656 and n.
Aboriginal languages and customs
(American), i, 85, 199; viii, 246 247;
ix, 571.

ACADEMIES, des Sciences, Belles Lettres
et Arts de Lyon, ix, 48 n., 362, 477;
of Angers and Marseilles, viii, 214
n.; of Dijon, ix, 47 n.; of Inscrip-
tions and Belles Lettres (Paris), viii,
248 n.; ix, 60 n.; of St. Petersburg,
iv, 192; ix, 649 and n.; of Rouen, ix,
48 n.; X, 466; of Stockholm, i,
17; at Warrington, v, 358; of Arts
and Sciences, i, 82, 206; viii, 257;
ix, 480, 498, 652 and n.
Acadia, v, 167.

Account of an Accident While Making
an Electrical Experiment (F.), iii, 32.
Accounts, B. F.'s household in Passy,
i, 8; x, 315-317, 406; with Congress,
i, 8.
Account of Negotiations in London for
Effecting a Reconciliation Between
Great Britain and the American
Colonies, An (F.), vi, 318 and n.;
X, 281 and n.

Account of Toads Found Enclosed
in Solid Stone, An (F.), viii, 417.
Account of the British Settlements in
America, iv, 233 n.

Account of the New-Invented Pennsyl-
vania Fire-Places, An (F.), ii, 246;

iv, 3.
Account of the Supremest Court of
Judicature in Pennsylvania, Viz.
the Court of the Press, An (F.), x, 36.
Acrement Close, iii, 109.

Act for Granting to His Majesty the
Sum of One Hundred Thousand
Pounds, An, iv, 323 n.
Act for the Better Ordering and Regu-
lating Such as Are Willing and
Desirous to be United for Military
Purposes Within the Province of
Pennsylvania, An (F.), i, 154; iii,
296, 307, 354.

Active (American ship), viii, 259.
Adam, L'Isle (France), ix, 121.

Addertongue, Alice (letter from), ii,
189-195.

Additional Experiments (F.), ii, 454;
iii, 106, 146.

Address of the American Philosophical
Society, to B. F. upon his return from
France, x, 473.

Address of the Provost, Vice-Provost,
and Professors of the University of
Pennsylvania, to B. F. upon his re-
turn from France, x, 474.

Address to the Public; from the Penn-
sylvania Society for Promoting the
Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief
of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held
in Bondage (F.), x, 66.

Administration of the Colonies (Pow-
nall), v, 13 n., 481.

Adventurer, The (Hawkesworth), ix,
582 and n.; x, 279.

Advice to America (Price), ix, 242, 286.
Advice to a Young Tradesman (F.), i,
136; ii, 370.

Aeronautics, see Balloons.
Aërophobia (virtues of fresh air), ix, 435.
AFRICA, i, 176; viii, 443; its slave
trade, iii, 68; ix, 6, 404; its colour,
iii, 72, 73; V, 478; American pris-
oners sent to, vii, 37, 312; viii, 445;
British commerce with, vii, 735
opening of its ports, 328; conquests
in, viii, 491; its forests, ix, 247; trade
in rum, x, 107.

African Negro, gratitude of an, iv, 305.
Aftercast, Margaret (in Dogood Papers),
ii, 38.

Afterwit, Anthony, see Letter from.
Agriculture, i, 31, 53; iii, 52, 61; iv,

211; V, 184, 192; x, 3; preservation
of fruit from frost, 1, 76; iv, 116;
culture of grass in meadows, i, 83,
84; plaster of Paris as a fertilizer,
85; the labour of the farmer the
standard of value, 147, 148, 149;
v, 195, 361; raising hemp, i, 15;
ii, 311; iv, 59-61; v, 503-505; herd
seed, ii, 313; experiments upon a farm
in New Jersey, 383-386; teaching of
gardening, 395; how to make fences,
iii, 31; a second spring, 31-32; im-
provement of swamps, 53; fowl

meadow grass, 59, 60; Barbary bar-
ley, 128; usefulness of black birds,
135; planting of whisk seed, 369;
American farm products, iv, 59;
uses of Indian corn, 395, 396; use of
oxen, v, 194; silk culture, 228; vi,
455, 456; rhubarb and rice, v, 443;
cabbage turnips, vi, 8; disease of
wheat, 141; Malesherbes imports
trees, viii, 30 and n.; tree planting,
X, 450; also see Settlement on the
Ohio River; On the Price of Corn,
and the Management of the Poor;
Observations on Mays, or Indian
Corn.

Air, fixed, Priestley's experiments with,
v, 394; vii, 18; effect of vegetation
on noxious air, i, 126; v, 551; viii,
9 n., 32 and n,; 38; uses in medicine
of, x, 280-281.

Air pump, see Vacuum pump.
Aix, i, 208.

Albany, ix, 606; x, 103; conference at,

i, 153, 156, 387; march against, ii,
360; trade in Indian goods, iii, 164
n.; Plan of Union, i, 393; iii, 197-229,
242, 243, 365; vi, 356, 416; Indian
raids, iii, 336; the army at, iv, 82,
254.

Albumazar (an Arabian tale), x, 123,

124.

Alcoran, quoted, x, oo.

Aldgate, pump at, viii, 274.
Alderney, x, 468.

Alert (English cutter), vii, 60 n.
Alexandria (Egypt), iv, 60.
Alexandria (Va.), i, 393; V, 483, 504, 506.
Alfred (U.S. frigate), vii, 73 n., 323.
Algeziras, x, 356.

Algiers, iv, 49; x, 356, 403; its pir-
acy, ix, 71, 493 and n.; rumours of
B. F.'s capture by, 493 and n., 495;
X, 462; slavery in, 88.
Algiers, Divan of, x, 87, 91.
Alicante (Spain), ix, 72, 97, 126, 132.
ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS, settlements

beyond the, iii, 358 and n., 361; V, 475,
479, 485, 494, 500, 507, 511, 520;
Spanish boundary, viii, 580; Brad-
dock's expedition, v, 482, 483; Han-
bury's petition, 490, 491; Walpole's
grant, 501; x, 255; Penn's tract, v,
521.

Alliance (U.S. frigate), vii, 259, 296,

300, 323, 362, 399, 400; viii, 3, 13.
18 and n., 21, 22, 41, 51, 54, 64, 66,
78, 112, 137, 147, 223, 225, 375,
552, 638; mutiny upon, vii, 231, 319,
338; viii, 33. 60, 72, 86, 90, 96, 124.
228, 229; her speed, vii, 238, 365:
Mr. Adams to sail in, 254,
295; viii, 224; Lafayette

281.

sails

in, 236; her prizes, vii, 388, 403,
420, 421; viii, 12, 56, 67, 76, 226,
227, 230, 296, 639; ix, 68; her car-
goes, viii, 26, 79, 113, 186, 254, 277,
386; Landais dismissed from the,
35, 85; deserts the Bonhomme
Richard, 46; x, 370; provisions for,
viii, 133, 176 n.; ix, 75, 76 and n., 134;
Captain Barry in command, viii,
324, 370 n., 401.
Almanack Royal, ix, 158.
Amazon River, ii, 416; iv, 111; tides in
the, ix, 317.

Amboy, i, 250, 252; iv, 313; vi, 463; vii,
32; ix, 467; x, 299; post routes, iv,
101, 102, 103, 104, 105.
America, great fog in (1783), i, 61;
clear air of, 70; dry air of, 85;
remains of the mastodon, i, 86; v, 39,
92; use of the lightning rod, i, 103;
physicians of, 114; viii, 285; F. the
first economist of, i, 135, 137; rate of
increase of population of, 143; iii, 63-
66; iv, 77; English predominance in, i,
145;, 73, 310; iv, 4, 8, 65; emi-
gration to, i, 146, 200, 205, 206;
iii, 44; vi, 292, 296, 297; viii, 355,
603-614; ix, 2, 21, 34, 90, 149,
150, 160, 222, 223; growth of luxury,
i, 150; V, 72; ix, 242, 243-248;
horrors of war in, i, 175, 176; vii,
69-72, 99; military service of, i, 201,
202; canals in, 207; poverty of
early colleges, 209; newspapers of,
246; building lighthouses, 4335
post-offices of, iii, 49; v, 145-149;
settling proposed new colonies, iii,
363, 364; V, 468-527; growth of
English language, ix, 263; advan-
tage of possession of Canada, iv, 36,
37, 40, 41, 44, 45-50, 53-60; x, 211;
trade with England, iv, 67, 68-70;
paper money, 330; V, 1-16, 18,
43, 97; viii, 74; ix, 231-236; Stamp
Act, iv, 414-448,454, 462, 463; V, 17,
19, 188; representation in Parliament,
v, 74; disunion of England and, v, 317,
318, 355; vi, 89, 144, 245, 247, 458, 450,
466; revenue from, v, 322, 323, 324;
duty on tea, vi, 57, 124, 125, 177, 170,
195, 241; country known to the an-
cients, 86, 87; English sentiments
toward, 93; Bishop of St. Asaph's
Sermon, 250; allegiance to the king

not

to Parliament, 260, 262, 274,
275, 277; trade after the Revo-
lution, ix, 318, 319, 472, 473, 482;
conciliatory measures, vi, 302, 305,
308; vii, 105, 107, 100, 111; X, 331,
332, 333, 334; negotiations for effect-
ing reconciliation, vi, 318-398; vii,
306-308, 309-312; viii, 45; skir-

mish at Concord, vi, 400; Bunker
Hill, 430; X, 293; propositions
for peace, vi, 452-454; vii, 143, 144;
comparison of Great Britain and the
United States in regard to the basis
of credit, 1-8; only five rounds
of powder in the army, 19;
European sympathy with, 55, 56,
57, 58; employment of foreign
troops, 66, 80; surrender of Bur-
goyne's army, 79; x, 328; cordiality
of France, vii, 102, 103, 220; viii, 327,
390, 391; Lord Chatham's speech
(April 7, 1778), vii, 149-153; credit
of Congress, 216, 325-330, 379; viii,
212, 272, 278; taking of Savannah,
vii, 275; distress of the army, viii, 209;
treachery of Arnold, 311, 312; sur-
render of Cornwallis, 389; pacquet
service with England, ix, 147, 148;
bald eagle the symbol of, 166,
167; constitution of United States,
616; commercial honour of, x, 105-
115; see also Prisoners, exchange
of; Treaty of alliance; Treaty of
peace; Negotiations for peace;
Loyalists, etc.

American Almanack (Leeds), ii, 202
n.; (German), 226 n.
American Citizen, The, i, 29.
American credit, x, 315, 375, 376.
"American Letter Book, The" (post-
office), i, xiii, x, 179.

American Medical and Philosophical
Register, ii, 276 n.

American Museum, The (Carey's), ii,
463 n.; iii, 226 n., 227 n.; ix, 661.
American Naturalisation Act, vi, 366.
American Philosophical Miscellany, ii,

292.

American Philosophical Society, i, viii,|
xiii, xvii, 54, 82; v, 337; vi, 221;
viii, 248, 295, 368, 597 n., 647; ix,
227 n., 315, 372, 443 n., 480, 494 n.,
585, 652 n.; x, 84 n., 486, 489, 490,
498; depository of B. F.'s papers, i, 3,
4, 8, 165, 183, 185; iii, 134, n., 175
n.; x, 409; present from Buffon, vi,
236; Herschel's gift, i, 70; ix, 584;
Priestley's gift, 528, 529; gifts from
Ingenhousz, 633; B. F. chosen pres-
ident, v, 196; Jefferson reads a paper
before, i, 86; establishment of, 361;
ii, 228-232 and n., 276, 277 n.; iii,
9 n.; v, 226; idle members, ii, 289;
drafts of B. F.'s papers, iv, 273 n.;
X, 204, 291, 417, 431; B. F.'s contri-
butions to, ix, 536; meets at B. F.'s
house, x, 1; Le Roy elected, v,
n.; Dubourg elected, vi, 19
De Normandie elected, 20 n.;
Magelhaens elected, 29 n.; Car-

192

n.;

michael elected, ix, 223 n.; Ingen-
housz elected, 519; election of French
members, viii, 37 and n.; address to
B. F. upon his return from France,
X, 473-

American Weekly Mercury, The, i,
X, 36, 170, 246 n.; ii, 100 n., 155 n.,

189 n.; x, 155, 156, 161, 162, 164,
165, 166, 167.
Americanus, L. (pseudonym), ii, 398 n.
L'Ami des Hommes, ou traite de la
Population (Mirabeau), v, 156 and
n.; ix, 269.

Amphitrite (ship), vii, 265; x, 325, 326,

327.

Amsterdam, vii, 34, 152; viii, 14, 129,
325, 337 and n., 505; ix, 296, 326;
X, 343; banks of, ii, 145, 146; viii,
282; inland commerce, iv, 60; B. F.'s
visit to, 110; Indien built at, vii,
157; loans in, 323; viii, 84, 342,
343, 349; treaty of commerce with
United States, 61 and n.; pensionary
of, 184, 185.

Amsterdam Gazette, viii, 146.
Amû River (Oxus), iv, 60.
Analisi d'un nuovo Fenomeno del
Fulmine (Barletti), vii, 97.
Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton),
ix, 488.

Ancestry of B. F., i, 171, 228-232;
iii, 451-453, 459; iv, 465; v, 36,
333-334, 349, 371; viii, 329; X,
142-146.

Ancona (Italy), x, 348.
Andes, ii, 416.

Angel Inn (in Oxford), v, 172.
Annals of Philadelphia (Watson), i,
85; iv, 5 n.

Annapolis, iv, 114, 215; ix, 176.
Annual Register, viii, 166 n.; x, 291 n.
Annuities, Life, in Parishes, v, 406.
Answers to M. Dubourg's Queries re-

specting the Armonica (F.), y, 451.
Antigua, i, 117; "B.F.'s printing busi-
ness," ii, 366; iii, 101, 102, 142, 166,
329, 333, 337, 357; iv, 194; X, 171.
Antiquaries, ix, 353.
Antwerp, iv, 62, 110.
Apologue (F.), i, 184; viii, 627 n., 651;

X, 2.

Apology for Printers, An (F.), ii, v, 172.
Appalachian Mountains, ii, 312; iii,
358, 361; iv, 57; V, 467; x, 485.
Appeal to the People (Keith), i, 200.
Appeal to the Public on the Subject of

the National Debt (Price), v, 389 n.;
vi, 418 n.
Aquaquisquis, Indian name for the
ground hog, iii, 264 n.
Arabia, ix, 247, 404.
Arabic language, iv, 302.