56 -o' ■ INDEX." 
l.ihd, Dr. Ills tlefalptloii auu ufe of n portable wind gage, p. 3^5. gagt» ■ 
Loco-motion, the power of, in certain animals, on what it depends, p. 214. 
London, an abridged If ate of the weather there In the year 1774, colledfed from the meteo-- 
Tological journal of the Royal Society, p. 167. See IVeathtr. London and Edluburgli. 
'a coinpaiifon of the heat of, p. 459. See Hcai. Average of deaths in London, 
p. 427. 
I^nngcvitj, uncommon inlfances of, at Chelfer, p. 83. 
Lorimer, Mr. J. his defeription of a new dipping-needle, p. 79. See Dipplng-needk.. 
Ludlam, Rev. Mr, his allronomical obfervations made at Leicefler, p. 366 — 372. 
See Leicejia\ 
Lyndon, in Rutland, extraft of a regilfer of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, for 
the year 1774, kept there, p. 199. 
Lyons, Mr. calculations in fpherical trigonometry abridged, p. 470. See Trigonometry 
fpherical, 
M. 
for railing water, ah account of one at Oulton, in Chelhire, p. 277. St&N'ata\ 
Madeira, ifland of, average of deaths there for eight years, p, 427* 
Magdalen ijlandsy fea-cow a native of, p. 249. 
Magnet. See Dipping needle, and Poles Magnetic. 
Afc/rr and females,, number born at different places and at different periods, p. 333. 435. 
Male to female births 20 to 19, ibid. Greater number of males than females born, 
p. 335. Males living lefs than females, p. 33.5. 43^, 436. INIore fliort-llved than 
females, p. 436. Number of males to females in different places, p. 334. More 
females than males baptized at St. Stephen’s, Brilfol, from 173410 1774, p. 332. Mr. 
Derham’s calculation confirmed, p« 333- 435* Comparative view of the number of 
•widowers and widows in different places, p. 335. 
3 'IanehcJhir, and other adjacent places, obfervations on the hate of population in, p. 322. 
An enumeration of the parifh of Mancheifer, ibid. Number of inhabitants in the 
town, townfliip, and parilh of Mancheher, p. 323. Striking difparity in the healthi- 
nefsof the town of Manchefter, and of the country round it, in the year 1772, ibid. 
To what attributed, p. 324, Proportion of annual deaths in Manchefter and the ad- 
jacent country, p. 425. 
Marble, found among Scaglia, p. 33. 
Marks in children, the fuppofition that they depend upon the Imagination and longing 
of the mother, entirely void of foundation, p. 317 — 320. 
Marriages, proportion of to deaths, in different places and at different periods, p, 328, 
329. See Life. 
Martins and fwallows, an account of their torpidity, p. 343. See Torpidity. 
Majke^'ne, Rev. Mr. his propofal for meafuring the attraftion of fome hill in this- 
kingdom by aftronomical obfervations, p. 493, See AttraSlion. — Hrs account of 
obfervations 
