INDEX. 
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from Madrafs to England, in the year 1774, p. 202. See Allahahad. 'ACCQMnt 
of the procefs of making ice in the Eaft Indies, p. 252. See Icr. 
Barker^ Mr. Thomas, his extract of a regifter of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, 
at Lyndon, In Rutland, for the year 1774, p. 199. London, 
Barmneter, date of it at London, throughout the y^ear 1774, p 140 — 164. Influence 
ol the winds upon, p. 17^. State of it at Briliol lor the year 1774, p 194 
At Lyndon in Rutland, p. 199. AtChiflehurd in Kent, p. 294. — Sea anemonies 
commended to form one, p. 240, 245, 246. 
Bafaltei. Two Balaltine Hills in the Venetian Stare, p. 6. Rojfo Biavolo. Their 
columns, the corncus ayfiaUlfatus prlpnaticus latcrihui inordinatls Walhril, p. 7. Deferip- 
tion of the columns, ibid. The hexagonal form chiefly’ prevails in columns of bafalres, 
p. 10. Bafaltine groups generally have an affinity with the mafs of the Hill to which 
they belong, p. 10. Bafaltine columns of Monte Rofi'o bedded in a mafs of Granite, 
p. 10. Bafaltine columns obferved near Auvergne, le Mont d’Or, and St. Alcon, ibid. 
Columns of Monte Rolfo and San Giovanni preferve a pofltion nearly parallel, p. 1 1. 
The like parallelifm obferved in other groups, p. 19. Varieties of pofltion generally 
obfervable in the different groups of the fame hill, p. 11. The horizontal pofltion not 
excluded, p. 12. Remarks on the bafaltes of Auvergne and Velay, p. 13 — 16. Bafal- 
tine columns contained in the Welfli Mountains, p. 16. Of the origin of bafaltine 
columns, p. 17 — 46. Not produced by depofition from an aqueous fluid, p. 17. Not 
parafitical bodies, p. 18. Form regular flrata, p. ii, 12. 19. Arguments of their 
igneous origin, p. 420. No inftance of a Crater \n any bafaltine hill, p. 21. Bafal- 
tine columns near Gamhellara, p, 44. Near Mafon, ibid. Near San Giovanni Illa- 
rione, ibid. The Bafaltine columns of il Saflo di fan Biaflo, p. 419. Bafaltes en 
tables, p. 421. 
Bats, frequently found in a ftate of torpidity, p. 346. 
Bean, experiments on its power of generating heat, p. 450 — 452. 
Bees, heat of a fwarin, p. 122. 
Bengal, general ftate of the weather there, p. 205. Rains caufe great floods there, p. 206. 
Waters become putrid, and bring on the pucker fever, ibid. 
Bitch, experiments on one, in an heated room, p. 489. 
Birds, feveral proofs of their torpidity, p. 348 — 
Birth, acephalous, an account of an extraordinary one, p. 3 1 1. Anatomical defcripllon 
of It, p. 313 — 31^. Obfervations thereon, p. 316 — 321. 
Black, Dr. Jofeph, his experiments afcertalning thefuppofed effcdl: of boiling upon water, 
in difpofing it to freeze more readily, p. 124. See Water, 
Black Martin, account of the, p. 264. See Svjifi. 
Blagden, Dr. Charles, his experiments and obfervations in an heated room, p. ni. 484. 
Body, animal, has a power of deftroying heat, p. 117 — 121. 
Boiling difpofes water to freeze, p. 124. 253. 255. Conjedure concerning the 
caufe, p. 127. 
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