558 INDEX. 
ibid. Its fnoak i.ot fo foetid as that of Vefuvius, 
14. Its perpendicular height, p. 15. Its operations 
the fame a> thole of Vefuvius, but upon a laige fcale, 
p. 17. Its eruptions uncertain, p. 18. 
F. 
Faintnefi falutary in hemorrhages, p. 402. 
Fitz-Gerald , Keane fc-fq* improvements of a netv wheel 
barometer, p. 74. 
Francis Cape, in the ifland of S. Domingo, the tranfit of 
Venus obferved there, p. 498. its latitude and longi- 
tude determined, p. 499, 500. 
Funchal in Madeira, its latitude determined, p. 502. 
Difference of its meridian from that of London, p. 
5 ® 3 - 
G* 
Ganglions of the nerves, their ufe afcertained, p. 30. 
GaJJendi his opinion about the folubility of different falts 
in water generally embraced, p. 326. 
Gibraltar , bones found in its rock, p. 415. 
Goofefeafon in Hudfon’s bay, p. iii, 126. 
Gordonia , fee Loblolly -bay. 
Gravity , its force determined at Ponoy in Lapland, p r 
395 - 
Gun-Jhot wound, cafe of a fatal one, p. 94, &c. 
H. 
Hamilton , Honourable William* his account of a journey 
to mount Etna, p. 1. 
Hampe , Dr. his account of a fpecies of the manis or fcaly 
lizard, p. 36. 
Heat does not prevent the feparation or coagulation of 
blood, p. 369, &c. 
1 Heat 
