INDEX. 489 



L. 



Land-rail cannot fly over the fea, p. 318. 



Letters, the ancient Roman, were Etrufcan, p. 63 . 



Lexell, Mr. of Peter/burgh, his determination of the Sun's 

 parallax from the obfervations of the tranfit of Venus, 

 p. 6g, &c. 



Lime-kilns , ufeful in putrid diforders, p. 205. 



Lightning, effects of a violent flafh, on the chapel at Tot- 

 tenham Court Road, p. 233. Struck and killed a man 

 there, p. 135. 



Linnaus, his fpecific characters of the rabbit- confidered, 

 p. 6. 



Lyndon, in Rutland, meteorological obfervations in that 

 place, p. 43, 44. 



M. 



Malacca, a lingular bird from thence defcribed, p. 1, 2. 



Majkelyne, Rev. Nevil, communicates a paper of the late 

 Dr. Bradley on the common micrometers, p. 46. His 

 improvements of Hadky's quadrant, p. 99, &c. 



Matlock water examined, p. 459. 



Meteorological obfervations at Ludgvan in Cornwall, p. 



3 5 5- . . 



Mice, employed in the experiments about the noxiouf- 



nefs of air, p. 175, 182, &c. How kept, p. 249, 



Live without water, p. 250. 



Micrometers, the ufe of them defcribed by Dr. Bradiey, 

 p. 46, &c. 



Milky appearance of fome fpots of water in the Red Sea 

 afcribed to animalcules, p. ^, 94. 



Mocha on the Red Sea, draughts of its road, p. 77. Its- 

 latitude and longitude, ibid. 



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