INDEX. 565 
Snow gathered in the caverns of mount Etna, p. 8. 
Covered with aflies in feveral places, p. 11. 
Soil of the country about Churchill river, p. 1 1 7. 
Spcrma ceti , what fubftance it is, p. 323. 
Spirit of wine unfroze by the great cold of Hudfon’s bay, 
in a fealed buttle, p. 125. Congealed to a jelly in art 
open glafs, p. 1 5 1 . 
Stones uncommon Italian defcribed by Mr. Strange, p. 
179, 180. 
Starry Arifeed Tree defcribed by Mr. Ellis, p. 524, See. 
A native of the Eall-Indies, as likewife of America, 
p 525. Its fingular properties,, p. 526. Eears fevere 
froft, p. 527. 
Stoor TVormSy probably exift, and may be 25 fathoms 
long, p. 42. 
Strange , John Efq-, account of fome uncommon fponges 
from the coaft of Italy, p. 179. 
Stromboli , a volcano in one of the Lepari iflands, p. 1 9. 
Sun’s diftance from the earth increased by laft obferva- 
tions in California, p. 550. 
Survivorjhips , how their reverfions are to be computed, 
p. 268, &c. 
Swinton, Rev. Mr. John, his obfervations on a Greek 
coin of Phitiftis, p. 80. 
Swinton , Rev. Mr. John, his account of a remarkable 
meteor leen at Oxford, p. 532. 
T, 
Tail by which Venus feemed to adhere to the Sun in 
its internal contadl obfervedat Caen, p. 265. But net 
at Paris, p. 267. 
Tarantula , account of its bite fabulous, p. 237. 
Tbermometrical obfervations on mount Etna, p. 15. Made 
near the coafts of Lapland, to afeertain the degrees of 
heat at the furface and bottom of the fea, p. 39. 
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