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INDEX. 
Sufit its diftance from the earth, p. 579. 
Swinion, Rev. John, Explicatron of a Punic or Phoenician 
coin, p. 78. Remarks upon two Etrufcan weights, 
p. 82. Interpretation of two Punic inferiptions, p. 91, 
Obfervations upon five ancient Perfian coins, p. 345. 
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T. . . • 
talent ^ contained fixty minas, p. 468. 
^alenty its value, p. 523. See Babylonian^ Eginean^ 
Euboic. 
*Tetradrachm^ fee Stater. 
Thorpe Mr. his Examination of Mr. Barrington’s opinion 
concerning chefnut trees, p. 152. 
Thunder ftorm, remarkable at St. Keverne, in Cornwall, 
p. 71, &c. 
Tides obferved at George Ifiand, p. 428. 
TortoifeSj two new, deferibed by Mri Pennant, p. 265. 
Tranf.t of V^’enus, obferved at George Ifland, p. 410. and 
at Batavia, p. 433. Of Mercury, obferved by Mr. 
Green, and Capt. Cook, in the South Seas, p. 432. at 
Batavia, p. 435. 
Tuberculated tortoife deferibed by Mr. Pennant, p. 271. 
Tufa, or Naples ftone, compofed of pumice afhes, and 
burnt ma ter, p. 7. Has taken the impreflion of the 
head of an ancient flatue dug out at Herculaneum, p. 8. 
Tyfon, Mr. Michael, account of a fingular fifh, p. 247. 
V. 
Vabar. A Cafthaginlan featown in Mauritania, p. 79. A' 
coin firuck there, while in the poflefiion of the Romans, 
p. 80. 
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Vapours, 
