55* I N D % X, 



Infecls, whether fubterraneous ones, 



33 2 



John/on, Captain, reaches 88° North 

 Latitude, 26 



K 



Kaims, Lord, citation from, 263 



Labr adore, coaftof, method of build- 

 ing huts there, 58, note w . 



Latitudes, high. Why inftances of 

 reaching are rare, p. 3. Inftances 

 of fuch in print, p. 15. Inftances 

 of, not in print, p. 34, & feq. 



Lawrence, Mafter, his early talents 

 for drawing, 317, note 1 ' 



Leernius, feveral citations from, 



j 54, & feq. 



Lever, Sir Afhton, fpecimens in his 

 Mufeum, 488 



Liebaut, citation from, about the 

 Guiney hen, 150 



Linnaus, the merits of his fyftem 

 confidered, p. 262, & feq. — 

 His knowledge of the Latin 

 tongueimperfe<fl,263— Hisfyftem 

 of botany conlidered, 271, & feq. 



M 



MacCallam reaches 834° N. Lat. 6 



Maclaurin, of opinion that the fea 

 was open to the Pole, 27, note p . 



AJar cello the compofer. Saying of 

 his elder brother, 291, note d . 



JSIartins, found torpid in holes, 

 &c. 232, & feq. — Seen at Chrift- 

 mas, 236 — Build in the fame neft 

 for years, 239 



Maurelle, D. Antonio, his voyage, 

 tranftation of, 47 1, & feq. reaches 

 5 8° nearly on the N.W. coaft of 

 America 507 



Meleagrh, whether the turkey, 143 



Mornington, Earl of, his early ta- 

 lents for muiic, 317, & feq. 



Mozart, a capital mufician at the 

 age of eight, 279, & feq. 



Mujic recommended in voyages of 

 difcovery, 58, note K 



improper prejudices againft 



the ProfefTors of, 324 



Mufeum of Royal Society, transferred 

 to the Britifh Mufeum, 277 



N 



Nairne, his experiments of freezing 

 fait water confidered, 94 



Ne/ls, not unneceflarily renewed by 

 birds, 240, note d . 



Nightingale, whether a bird of pa£- 

 fage, 207 — Not feen N. of Dur- 

 ham, nor in Wales, ibid. 



O 



Oglethorpe, G eneral . His advice with 

 regard to difcoveries, 58, note u . 



Ohthere, his voyage in the Northern 

 feas, 460 & feq. 



Oldenburg, Mr. refuted, i£ 



Orange-head, a fea plant, defcribed, 



480 



P 



Percy, mafter, his early talents for 

 poetry, 308, note n . Words of 

 a ballad written by him, 309 



Polar feas, fuppofed to be not filled 

 with ice in the fpring, 120, & feq. 



Pole reached, according to a Berlin 

 map, 19, note y. 



Pole. Parliament gives a reward of 

 5000 1. for reaching within a de- 

 gree of it, r 57 



Potowmack River,, frozen over, 25, 



note 



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