INDEX, 



Rattle fnakfes, enquiries con- 

 cerning - 8 1 

 Ravens Indian (Buceros Lin.) 



80 



Red filver ore (min. argent. 



rubra) - 53 



Regenerated tartar ~ 49 

 Refracting fpar - 44 

 Religious rites, queries upon 

 67 



Reptiles j to preferve 1 8 

 Rice, kinds of - 86 

 Rock cryftal * 46 



Rochelle fait - 49 



Rotten ftone - 43 



Ruby ~ ^47 



Sal ammoniac 



fixed 



Salts in general - 47 

 Salts* different kinds of, in 

 water how detected 3 1 

 Salt petre, how manufactured 

 in India - 89 



Sand ftone jw 45 

 Saphire «- - 47 



Sardonyx - - 47 

 Scarabaeus, chafer n 2 

 Scorpions - ~ 6 

 Scotch pebble - 46 

 Staphylinus *» n 2 

 Sea cow * — 80 

 Sea eggs, or echini, to pre- 

 ferve - - 19, 83 

 Sea fowl, how to preferve 18 

 Sea fait in water, to difcover 



Sea ftars -* 44 



Sea ftars, to preferve 19 

 Sea weeds to be examined 82 

 Seafons, fuccef&ons of 74 

 Sedative fait - 49 



Seeds, to preferve and trans- 

 port - 2 1 



: u*; in their pods 



23 



— - — — — to be fown on their 

 arrival - 23 



Seeds* Linnaeus's method of 

 preferving — 23 



Selenites - 44 



Selenites in water, to difcover 

 32 



Sepia *• k 82, 83 

 Shale, bafs or fhiver 46 

 Shells, to defcribe * xv 

 Shells, to collect — 19 

 Ship-building * 71 

 Shirl or cockle — 46 

 Silk, grey in China, how 

 procured — Si 



Silpha - *- n 2 

 Silver, and its ores 52, 53 

 Sirex - n 5 



Slates - - 46 



Smoaky topaz - 46 



Snakes, to defcribe xiii 

 Snakes, to preferve 1 8 



Snakes, poifonous bites of 75 

 Snake ftone - 44 



Spar, acid of - 48 

 Spars f - 44 



Speltre - -* 57 

 Sphex * - ji 5 

 Sphinx — - n 4 

 Spiders - * 6 



Spirit of fea fait - 48 

 Sponges, to collect 26, 83 

 Stalactites — — 44 

 Star ftones - 44 



Stone *< * 45 

 Stones in general - 42 

 Stucco or plainer - 44 

 Strawberry feeds, to preferve 

 22 



Striated antimonial ore 57 

 Sulphur - - 51 

 H Sulphur 



