INDEX. 
552 
Bolca^ a follll fidi quarry there, pr 25. 
Brain, children born with little or none, have the capfulne renales very much diminlflied, 
p. 315. ». An inftance againft the common perfiiafiou that brainlcfs children are 
remarkably briik before they are born, p. 317. 
Brijlol, extraft of a meteorological journal kept th6re, for the year 1774, p. 194, Sec 
Meteorological Journal. 
Beo^imjide, in Derbyfhire, number of its inhabitants in the year 1773, p. 326. 
Mr. James, his obfervations upon myrrh, made in Abyffinia, p. 408. See 
Buccinum, a fpecies of, an extraordinary animal in the waters of Abano, p, 45, 46. Van* 
delli’s figure of this animal, inaccurate, p. 46. 
Bugfvoorth, in Derbyfhire, number of its inhabitants in the year 1773, p. 326. 
Bujhel. See Weights and Meafures. 
C. 
Cadcr Idris, a mountain in Wales, prifmatic bafaltine columns on the top of, p. 47. 
Calcutta, in the Eaft Indies, natural ice never difeovered there, p. 252. 
Cancer, PrognofticB derived from ftars in that conftellation, p. 182. 
Capfula renales, very fmall in children born with little brain, p. 31^. «. 
Carp, experiments on their power of refilling external cold, p. 122. 447. 
Caucalis of the ancients, what, p. 41 1. 
Chejler, obfervations on its bill of mortality for the year 1773, p. 85. Healthy to a re- 
markable degree, ibid. Uncommon inflances of longevity there, ibid. Women live 
longer than men, p. 86. No epidemic in it this year, ibid. Remarks on inoculation 
and the fmall pox, p. 87. Between the ages of 1 5 and 50, more died of confumptions 
than of all other difeafes, ibid. Deaths, ages, and conditions, p. 88. Difeafes of 
different ages, p. 89. Difeafes of different months, p.90. General bill of marriages, 
baptifms, and burials, ibid. 
Children, great towns fatal to, p. 324* 
Chillac, town of, in Upper Auvergne, built on a giants caufeway, p. 16. 
1 Chimborazo, the mountain, an attempt to meafure its attradion by affronomical obferva* 
tions, p. 496, 497, 
Chitdey, in Derbyfhire, number of its inhabitants in the year 1773, p. 326. 
•^Chovohesit, in Lancafhire, furvey of its inhabitants in the year 4773, with the flate of 
births and deaths, p. 431, 432, ' 
iChiflehurJl, in Kent, ftate of the thermometer there for the year 1.774, P* 294 » 
Circular Arc, time of defeent in, p. 287, 288. 
Clock, obfervations on the going of one, p. 290* 
■Cockey Moor^ In Lancafhire, furvey of its inhabitants in the year 1773, with the ftate of 
births' and deaths, p. 431, «. 
■ Cold, animals capable of generating, ps iia, «. of refilling it, p, 446. See Heat. 
iCelouring Subjlanci, from the ifland of Amfterdam, fin the South Seas, p. 91. Of a light 
‘bright ©range eolourj ibid. Oives a yellow ftain to the Ikin not teadily walked out 
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