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INDEX. 
R. 
Rathbone-place water, examined by the Hon. Henry Ca- 
vendifh, p. 93. Grows cloudy upon dropping a fo- 
lution of corrofive fublimate, ibid. Its contents by 
diftillation, 93, 94. Diftilled, contains a volatile al- 
kali, 95, 96. 
Ray\ his account of the deluge unfatisfa&ory, p. 4 6. 
Reptiles about the Volga, p. 351. 
Romana Cape, the moft fouthern point of land in Afia, 
p. 158. 
S. 
Salt) common, extradited from Lake Yelton in very great 
quantities, p. 320. 
Salts and fulphurs difcharged from Mount Vefuvius, 
p. 199. 
Salts neutral, formed with fermented vegetable acids and 
the foil'll alkali, p. 498, With diftilled vegetable 
acids, and the foftll alkali, 504. With flowers of 
benzoin and fait of amber, 507. 
Satyrs, Hands of, were probably the Celebes, Borneo, 
&c. p. 1 71. 
Senfibility may exift without the brain, p. 18. 
Seres, their country part of Thibet, p. 163. 
Sertularias , from a creeping adhering tube, fend up feve- 
ral branched animals, p. 434. 
Sharp , Mr. Samuel, his account of a new inftrument for 
fractured legs, p. 80. Made the ftrft with his own 
hand, 87. 
Shells, found in all parts of the prefent continents and 
Hands, p. 47. Their beds confift generally of one or 
two different forts in particular places, 57. 
Serica, ancient, where, p. 163. 
Shrimps , 
