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INDEX. 
E. 
Eajl Indies, the procefs of making ice there, I52. See Ice. 
Edinburgh and London, a comparlfon of the heat of, 459. See Heat. Comparative heat 
of Blofcow and Edinburgh, p. ^^60. 
Eel, electrical, an account of one, ic2. Experiments and obfervations on one, 94. Sco 
Gjmnotus EleBricus. 
ElcHricity, a (hock of, cannot be communicated by a chain, or where there is the lead in- 
terruption of continuity, p. 3, «. — To kill a whole plant by, 456, n. 
E’vaporation, a powerful] frigorific caufe, but not fuppofed fufficient to keep the living 
body cool in air heated to a very great degree, p. 492. 
Euganean hills, chiefly formed of granitello, p. 9. Their fituation, extent, and external 
charafters, p. 33 — 36. Few of them conlifl of common lava, p. 35. Particular de- 
feriptions of fome few which do, p. 38 — 41. An account of a curious giants caufe- 
way newly difeovered there, 418. Stte. Bafaltes. 
Experiments and obfervations In an heated room, iii. 463. 484. See Room. 
Experiments on a new colouring fubftance from the ifland of Amfterdam in (he South 
Seas, 91. See Colouring Suhjlance. On the fuppofed effedl of boiling upon 
water, in difpofing it to freeze more readily, 124. See Water. — On the Dipping- 
needle, 1 29. See Dipping-Eeedk. — On animal and vegetables, with refpedt to the power 
of producing heat, 446. See Heat. 
Experiments, with the ore of lead and fpirlt of nitre, 393. In an heated room, 463. 
Electrical, with the gymnotus eleClricus, 96 — 101. 107, 108. On a mufical inflru- 
ment brought from the ifle of Amfterdam, in the South Seas, 67. Aftronomical, 509, &.c, 
- On fea anemonies, 207, Src. On the torpedo, .1 . 
it . 
F. 
Farr, Dr. Samuel, his extraCt of a meteorological journal for the year 1774, kept at 
Briftol, p. 1 94. See Meteorological Journal. 
Fan. See Weights and Meafures. 
’ and males, number born at diiferent places and at different periods, 333. 435, 
Females more than males baptised, at St. Stephen’s Briftol, for 20 years, 332. Fewer 
born than males, 435. More living than males, 335, 43^, 436. Longer-lived than 
males, 436. 
Fever. Pucker fever. See Bengal. 
Fir, Scotch, experiments on its power of generating heat, 431,452. 
Fire, its operation on lapideous folids, p. 26. 
* Fijls, killed by an eleCtrical fluid from the gymnotus eleClricus, g6, 97, 98. 
Flute, nofe, of Otaheite, p. 72. Remarks on the founds produced by it, p. 7-2 — 74. Sounds 
noted to confort pitch, p. 72, 73. Capable of feveral different mebdies, thougli 
4:hiefly inelanchblyj p. 73. 
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