Miscellanies. 349 



Yale College, is as follows : 



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Volume I. 



I. Imponderable agents* 



Under this division are included light, heat, and attraction,* and 

 a general outline of galvanism. 



II. Ponderable bodies. 



1. Inorganic bodies. Section 1. Oxygen, as a simple support- 

 erf of combustion. Sec. 2. Nitrogen, and the atmosphere. Sec. 3. 

 Hydrogen and water, and the oxy-hydrogen or compound blow-pipe. 

 Then follow, 



The Alkalies, in the order : 



Sec. I. Ammonia. 2. Potassa. 3. Soda. 4. Lithia;— with 

 the metallic bases of the three latter. 



The Earths, in the order: 



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Sec. 1. Lime. 2. Baryta. 3. Stroniia. 4. Magnesia. 5. 

 Silica. 6. Alumina. 7. Zirconia. 8. Glucina. 9. Yttria. 10. 

 Thorina, (added in an Appendix) with their respective bases, and a 

 notice of Glass, after Silica ; and of Porcelain, after Alumina. Next 

 come, 



The Simple Inflammables, in the order: 



Sec. 1. Hydrogen, (as it was before described, it is only mention- 

 ed here, in its natural order.) 



Sec. 2. Sulphur— its acids and salts ; sulphurets, hydrosulphu- 



rets, Uc. 



Sec. 3. Carbon— carbonic acid, carbonates, carbonic oxide, car- 



buretted hydrogen, he. 



Sec. 4. Phosphorus— its acids and salts ; compounds, with com- 

 bustibles and bases, &c. 



Sec. 5. Nitrogen, (not a combustible in the popular sense , but 

 sustaining relations to oxygen similar to those of combustible bodies) 



acids of nitrogen, oxides, salts, &c. 





' We know not what attraction E. : it * certainly an agent, and •""-"''"" 

 ««» it is material, much less ponderable ; it stand, the.efe.c, correctly, under 

 head. t 2Sot supporters, a* misprinted in the work. 



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