INDEX. 
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Sagittariusj a new bird from the Eaft Indies, defcrlbed by 
Mr. Edwards, p. 55. 
Salts^ their comparative powers in refifting congelation, 
p. 21S. 
Saxon blue, made in the beft manner, p. 128. 
Scruple Roman, its weight, p.490. Its variations,p.500, &c. 
Sea coals ufed in China, p. 70. 
Sea^ formerly reached the mountains between Capua and 
Caferta, p. 2, 3, &c. 
Seeds, whether they can remain many ages in an inert 
ftate of fecundity, p. 386. 
Segefta, a maritime Sicilian city, p. 93. A Punic coin of 
that city, ibid. 
Sejlerce, its weight, p. 524. Value, p. 525. 
Shells, feveral hypotheles on their formation, p. 239; 
Smeaton, Mr. John, defcription of a new Hygrometer, 
p. 196. 
iS’o /7 of Naples, produced by explofions, p. 15. 
Soft, fiielled tortoife defcribed by Dr. Garden, p. 267 
and by Mr. Pennant, p. 268, &c. 
Solfaterra, formerly a volcanoe, p. 17. 48. 49. Its antient 
name Forum Vulcani, p. 19. , 
Somma, the Vefuvius of the antients, p. 12. 25. took its 
rife from the bottom of the fea, p. 13. 
Slabia, place where Pliny the elder loll his life, p. 5. 
Stamford, in Lincolnfliire, its latitude afcertained, p. 238., 
Stater, or tetradrachm, the molf common Attic coin-now 
remaining, p. 480. 
Sleatomous rumor in the abdomen of a woman, p. 132,. 
uncialis, Etrufcan weight, defcribed by Mr. Swinton, 
p. 87. 88, Anterior to the regifuge ol the 1 arquins, 
p. 89. 
