INDEX. 
Snipe, orTringa, a new-difcovered fpecies of it, p. 255. 
Solanum Lethale, Bella- Donna, or Deadly Nightfhade, brief 
botanical and medical hiftory of it, p. 62. 
Soap, its virtues in difiolving the (tone, p. 221, 386. 
Sponges, formed by worms, new obfervations on them, 
p. 590. 
Steam-Engine, experiments on applying Dr. Hales’s method 
of diftilling falt-water to it, p. 53. 
Steam, farther experiments for increafmg the quantity of it 
in a fire-engine, p. 570. 
Stone, the virtues of foap in difiolving it, p. 221. 
Stones, remarkable inftance of four rough ones difcovered 
in an human urinary bladder, extracted by the lateral 
method of cutting for the ftone, p. 579. 
Storm , effe&s of one at Wigton in Cumberland, p. 194. 
at Looe and Lanreath, p. 104. 
Stonesfield, account of the fofiil thigh-bone of an animal 
dug up there, p. 524* 
Sumatra , Ifland of, account of an earthquake felt there in 
Nov. and Dec. 1 756, p.491. 
Swinton , the Rev. John, his remarks on a Parthian coin 
with a Greek and Parthian legend, never before pub- 
lifhed, p. 175. 
difiertation upon the Phoeni- 
cian numeral characters antiently ufed at Sidon, p. 791. 
tables of the variation of the magnetic needle, a fete, 
which exhibit the refult of upwards of fifty thoufand 
obfervations, adapted to every five degrees of lat. and 
long, in the more frequented oceans, p. 329. 
Tendon, Flexor, one torn out in its whole extent, and the 
firft joint of the thumb torn off, p. 617. 
Thermometer, date of it at the Hague, Jan. 9, 1757. 
p. 148. 
Thermometers , defeription of fome for particular ufes, 
P * 3 °°’ c X 2 thigh- 
5 X 2 
