328 INDEX. 
Turnbull, Doctor, his obfervations on the bite of the Ce- 
raftes, p. 288. 
Tzade , a Phoenician letter, different from all figures of 
it, p. 9. 
y. 
Vaillant , Mr. referred to, p. 297. 
Velchius , a celebrated Phyfician, p. 213. 
Venus , account of her Tranfit over the Sun, by M. Mal- 
let, p. 72. fee Mallet 
Viper , horned, of Egypt, defcription of, p. 287. fee Coluber 
Cerajles. 
Vclogcfes,¥d\x\™ of Parthia, p. 297 a Roman army cut 
off by him, p. 299. — account of his expedition againll 
the Roman?, p. 300. — acquires the furname of Peroz, 
-or Perozes, ibid. 
W. 
Wargentin , Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences 
at Stockholm, account of his oblervation of the Tranfit 
•of Venus, p. 77. — thought to be erroneous by Mr. 
Short, p. 89. — his new method of determining the 
longitude of places, p. 278. fee Longitude. 
Waters , Somerfham, account of, p. 10. fee Somerjham. 
- Bitter, at Karondell, p. 53. 
Watfon, William, M. D. FT R. S. letter to him from 
William Wortley Montagu, Efq; p. 40. fee Mon- 
tagu. 
Weather , Journal of, by Mr. Rofe, p. 291. 
Wilfon, Mr. Benjamin, F. R. S. account of a difpute 
between him and Aipinus, p. 241. 
Wind, velocity of, a method of afcertaining by Mr. Brice, 
p. 224. — Mr. Derham’s method why it fails, p. 225. 
— experiment to determine it, p. 226. 
Wolf, of Warfaw, M. D. F. R. S. his further account of 
the Polifh Cochineal, p. 184. 
2 Worms , 
