INDEX. 
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L. 
Land-rail cannot fly over the Tea, p. 318. 
Letters, the ancient Roman, were Etrufcan, p. 63. 
Lexell, Mr. of Peterfburgh, his determination of the Sun’s 
parallax from the obfervations of the tranflt of Venus, 
p. 69, &c. 
Lime-kilns , ufeful in putrid diforders, p. 205. 
Lightning , effe< 5 ts of a violent flalb, on the chapel at Tot- 
tenham Court Road, p. 222. Struck and killed a man 
there, p. 135. 
Linnaus , his fpecific chara&ers of the rabbit confidered, 
p. 6. 
Lyndon , in Rutland, meteorological obfervations in that 
place, p. 43, 44. 
M. 
Malacca , a Angular bird from thence deferibed, p. 1, 2. 
Majkelyne , Rev. Nevil, communicates a paper of the late 
Dr. Bradley on the common micrometers, p. 46. His 
improvements of Hadley’s quadrant, p. 99, &c. 
Matlock water examined, p. 459. 
Meteorological obfervations at JLudgvan in Cornwall, p. 
3 6 5 - 
Mice, employed in the experiments about the noxiouf- 
nefs of air, p. 175, 182, &c. How : kept, p. 249. 
Live without water, p. 250. 
Micrometers , the ufe of them deferibed by Dr. Bradley, 
p. 46, &c. 
Milky appearance of fome fpots of water in the Red Sea 
aferibed to animalcules, p. 93, 94. 
Mocha on the Red Sea, draughts of its road, p. 77. Its 
latitude and longitude, ibid. 
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