INDEX. 521 
Vomits of emetic tartar ferviceable in the chin-cough, 
P- 75- 
Vulgar , their knowledge often too much flighted, p. 447. 
W 4 
Wakefield^ account of a ftorm of lightning there, p. 350.' 
Wal/h, Mr. on the Torpedo, 465. 
Warrington , number of houfes and inhabitants there, 
p. 43 8. Its healthinels and increafe, p. 439. Bill of 
mortality of that town, for 1773, p. 442. Difeafes, 
ages, and conditions of thoie who died there, p. 
443> 444* 
Watfon, Mr. Henry, on the ftomach of the Gillaroo 
trout, p. 1 2 1. 
Watery no repulfion between water and air, p. 452. No 
attra&ion between water and oil, p. 453. 
Waves , {tilled by means of oil, p. 446 and 456. 
Weather , regifter of, at Lyndon in Rutland, p. 202. 
White , the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, his account of the houfe- 
martin, or martlet, p. 196. 
Whitehaven , an account of various native falts found in 
the coal-mines near that place, p. 481. 
Wilmer y Mr. B. his account of a woman accidentally 
burnt to death, p. 340. 
Wilfon y Dr. Alexander, his obfervations on the folar fpots, 
p. 1 . Propofes an improvement in the crofs wires of 
telefcopes, p. 105. 
Winn, Mr. his remarks on the Aurora Borealis, p. 128. 
Winter , lefs fevere than formerly (though {till extremely 
rigorous) in Labradore, p. 375. 
Winthrop, Profeffor John, his remarks on a pafiage in 
Caftillione’s life of Sir Ifaac Newton, p. 153. 
Wires , {harp -pointed, preferable to knobs for the ter* 
mination of electrical condu&ors, p. 134, 409, 410. 
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