INDEX. 



Ward, Mr. H. his improved eight- 

 day clock, 346 



Water, vifoidity of, 52, 157, 173— 

 Beft modes of preferying, 225 



Water diet, efficaceous to alleviate 

 the agonies of perfons afRicted 

 with cancer, 75 



Water meadows, 302 



Waves of the fea, how produced, 6 



Weaving, ancient, 325 



Wheat, cultivation of, 188 



White-thorn, expenments on the 

 growth of, 285 



Wilkinfon, Mr. his galvanic experi- 

 ments, 50 

 Winds, their operation on the furfacc 



of the fea, 6 

 Wine, on the means of preferving im 



cafks, 227 

 Wirtemberg prize for the beft theory 



refpecting foflii bones, 338 

 W. N. on vifion under water, 41 > I5^ 



— On the ufe of charcoal as a pre- 



ferver of water, 226 

 WoUafton, Dr. on percuflion, 31.— 



His portable blow-pipe dcfcribed* 



284.— On pktina, 329 



