index. 527 
Sakp^i\\^t which comes from Turkey may be imitated by 
means of the roots of the Orchis, p. i. In what man- 
ner, p. 2. Its power of thickening of water and mak- 
ing a jelly, p. 3. 
Salt indiffoluble produced from an infufion of hemp-feed, 
p. 146, 147. And from fome other vegetable infufions, 
p. 148. 
Samnite coins elucidated by Mr. Swinton, p. 432. 
Saturn^ two dark belts difcovered on his globe, p. 459. 
Sea. See Luminoufnefs . 
Short Dr. his obfervations oa bills of mortality com- 
mended, p. no. 
Short, late Mr. James, his method of working fpherical 
glalfes, p. 507. 
Shoulder bone, the head of it fawed off, and the motion and 
figure of the arm preferred, p. 40, 41. The fame ope- 
ration recommended, p. 44. 
Sicamcre, or Great Maple, a tree of foreign extraction,, 
P’ 35* 
Skie, a rare aquatic plant found in that ifle, p. 241. 
Smeaton Mr. John, his obfervations of the folar eclipfe^ 
near Leeds, p. 286. 
Smith, Dr. William, provoft of the college of Philadel- 
phia, his account of the tranfit of Venus obferved by 
him and feveral other gentlemen, at Norriton, twenty 
miles N. W. of Philadelphia, p. 289, &c. 
Solfaterra, an extinguifhed volcano, p. 20. 
Spherical glalfes, how to be worked, p. 507. 
Steward, Dr. his method of determining the diftance-of 
the Sun, true in its principle, p. 153. Imperfed in its 
ufe, p. 154. 
Stockholm, the obfervations of the tranfit of Venus in diat 
city, p. 332. 
Strange, John, Efq; his account of a natural paper found 
near Cortona, in Tufcany, p.50, 51. Defcribes feveral 
fepulchral infcriptions and figui-es found at Bonn, 
P- 195- 
StJointoiiy. 
