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-obrefvatlons made on the mountain Schehallien for iinding Its attvadUon, p, 500. 
See Schehallien. 
Meafure and weight, what W'as the ancient EngIKh, prior to the reign of Henry the 
Seventh, an Inquiry to fhew, p. 48. See Weight and Meafure, 
Meconium, univerfilly found in the bowels of new-born children, nothing more than 
the mucus naturally fecreted by the Inteftinal glands, p. 314, n. 
Meteorological journal for the year 1774, kept at the Royal Society’s houfe, p. 139. See 
Tables. One kept at Briftol for the year 1774, p. 194. Why no important in- 
formation has been derived from keeping meteorological journals, ibid. Tables 
given as an example of a method to remedy the negledf, p. 167^ — 193. 
Middleton, near Manchefter, an account of births, deaths, and marriages, in the parilh 
of, from 1663 to 1672, and from 1763 to 1772, p. 326, 327. Obfervatlons on 
the change in the proportion of births to deaths, and alfo to the marriages, at Mid- 
dleton, during the laft century, p. 327, 328. 
Monfrafty and marks in children, do not depend upoia the imagination and longing of the 
mother, p. 317 — 320. 
Monte Rojfo, a bafaltine hill in the Venetian State, in Italy, p. 36. See RoJJb. 
Monte Cafello, 
Monte dduovo, 
Monte Uliveto, 
Moons inflrrence on the w^eather, table for trial of, p. 177, &c. 
Moon, doubts concerning her fuppofed influence on the weather, p. 178 — 198. Con'- 
jedtures concerning the origin of this general perfuafion, p. 180 — 183. The appear- 
, ances of the moon tokens of the weather but not caufes, p. 180—182. Tables for, 
trials of the moon’s Influence, p. 177. 193. 197. The Dodtrine of the moon’s influence 
had not gained ground among pradtical writers in the time of Aratus, p. 186. 
Mootcgil, natural ice feldom feen there, p. 2^3;. 
Mortality, human, obfervatlons on the difference between the duration of it, in towns an 3 
in country parilhes and villages, p. 424. 428—434. Difference in the flate of mor- 
tality in towns and in country parifhes, whence it arifes, p. 428. The apparent rate 
of mortality in towns, not magnified by an influx of people from the country, p. 428. 
Mofcorjj. Comparative heat of Mofcow and Edinburgh, p. 460. 
Moutitains, See Attradlion, 
Mourn-Hills in Ireland compofed of Granite and Lava, p. 34. 
Mufical inftrument, an account of one brought from the ifle of Ainflerdam in the South 
Seas, p. 67. Experiments thereon, ibid. Explanation of it according to its exadl 
fize, p. 69. The manner of blowing, and what tones produced, p. 69, 70. The 
tones adapted to Englifh -conjbrt pitch, p. 70. The fyftems furnifhed correfpond with 
the diatonic and chromatic p- 71- Not capable of performing according to the 
enharmonic divifion of the tetrachord, ibid. 
4 E i ... Mysjh^ 
^ three of the Eugariean bafaltine hills, defcribed, p. 38 — 41, 
