INDEX. 
America , a defcription of the American Armadilla, p. 
57. Of the Cicada, p. 65. Fiery Meteors feen there, 
185. See Connefiicut , Cicada , Jamaica , Martinico , 
Meteors , Newfoundland , Philadelphia. 
Anak, a Phoenician word. Its import, p. 415. 
Approximation , an eafy rule of for computing the diftance 
.of the Moon from a Zodiacal Star, by the Rev. Nevil 
'Mafkeline, A. M. and F..R. S. p. 274. 
Armadilla American. See America. 
AJlhrna , an account of an unufual appearance on open- 
ing the body, of one who died of that difeafe, by 
W. Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. p. 239. His cafe des- 
cribed, ibid. The date of his lungs after death, 241. 
Thecaufes of the difeafe in that cafe inveftigated, 243. 
AJlronomers , the different waies of accounting time, in ule 
among them, p. 344. 
Agronomical obfervations. See Ohfervations Agronomical. 
Aurora Auftralis , how rare, p. 3 1 8. 
Borealis , a defcription of a curious one feen at 
Warfaw, p. 98. — Another feen at Lifbcn, 32 7. 
B. 
Bam , a Phoenician word. Its import, p.422. 
Barthelemi l’Abbe’s, memoir on the Phoenician letters re- 
markt on by the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. 
p. 1 19. — His explication of a Phoenician infcription, 
remarkt on by the fame hand, 132. — Further remarks 
on the fame fubjedt, by the fame hand, 393. 
Batavia road in the Eaft Indies. An account of the effedbs 
of lightening upon fhips there, p. 293. 
Belemnite , aFofil. An account of it, p. 38. Two kinds 
of it particularifed, 40. Its fhel 1 how formed and 
enlarged, 44. How different from oyfters '&c, 4-5. 
Flow changed by fire, 50. What properties it has 
when calcined, ibid. 
Ben, a Phoenician word. Its import, p. 415, 
Ben 
