INDEX. 
T ides*, the moon’s force in raifing them, compared with 
that of the fun, p. 35. A remarkable one at BriftoJ, 
8 3 ‘ 
Tucker Jofiah, D. D. his letter concerning a tide at Briftol, 
P- 83 - 
j tzade, a Phoenician letter. The variety of its forms, 
P- * 35 - 
V. 
Veicht Robert, his account of the effects of lightning, upon 
three ihips in the Ealt Indies, p. 284. 
Venus , her tranfit over the fun, 6 June 1761. A fupple- 
ment to Mr. Pingre, account ot that tranfit publiihed 
in a former Volume of tins work, p. 152. An ac- 
count of that tranfit by Chriftian Mayer, 163. From 
Mr. Winthrop, Newfoundland, 279. Mr. Winth- 
rop’s account remarkt on, 282. 
Virginia , the fize of the conductors in that Province, for 
preventing the effedts of lightning, p. 253. Why 
that practice was adopted there, ibid. 
W. 
Waring Edward, M. A. F. R. S. his difcoveries of new 
properties in conic fedtions, p. 193. 
IV afps, a fingular fpecies of them minutely defcribed, 
P- 53 - 
W ater and other fluids, compreffibility of, proved by J. 
Canton, M. A. F. R. S. p. 261. Their elafticity how 
different from that of air, 262. 
tVatfon^ W. M.D. F. R.S. his defcription of the American 
Armadilla, p. 57. His anfwer to M. Calandrinis 
queftions, relative to an apparatus for preventing the 
effedts of lightning, 203. His account of the diflcdtion 
or an afthmatic perfon, 239, 
Wilfin, 
