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INDEX. 
Lamponius. See Luponius. 
Landen , Mr. John, his new method of comparing curvi- 
iineal areas, p. 174. 
Latitude , degrees of, meafured from Sobiefchitz through 
Vienna, Gratz, and Varafdin, p. 15, 16. Unequal, 
probably on account of the attraction of the mountains 
of Stiria, ibid. Meafured in Pennfylvania, p. 274. 
Lava , running over the crater of Mount Vefuvius in fmall 
ftreams, p. 3. Forced its way from different new 
openings, p. 5. Its fwiftnefs, p. 6. Its depth 70 
feet, and in fome places its width of near two miles, 
p. 10. Its extent fix miles, ibid. 
Lemery , Dr. his error with refpedt to the phofphorus, p. 336. 
Liefganig , Father Jofeph, his meafurement of three degrees 
of latitude under the meridian of Vienna, p. 15. His 
account is foon to be publifhed, ibid. 
Light , whether a fluid emitted, or motion communicated, 
P- 342 , 343 - 
Luponius , a general of the Samnites in the Social war, 
p. 2 57. 
Lymphatic fy fte m , fuppofed to be wanting in birds, p. 217. 
Difcovered and defcribed, p. 218. Method of de- 
monftrating it, p. 223. Difcovered in a turtle, and in 
fifh, p. 224. 
Lymphatics are the only abforbents, p. 223. 
M. 
Madcc Gwineth , a Welfhman, faid to have planted aBri- 
tifh colony in America, in 1170, p. 96, 97. 
Mallet, Mr. of Upfal, is to go to Pello, in Lapland, to 
obferve the next tranfit of Venus, p. 108. 
Malta , Punic medals found in that ifland, p. 235. 
Maltefe medals, why fo called, p. 235. 
Mammouth , fabulous animal of Siberia, p. 35. Probably 
the fame with the pfeud-elephant fuppofed to have been 
in America, p. 45. 
Man , 
