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Fafting woman, an account of her, p. 1 — 11. 
Flannel . A coated phial may be charged with elettrical fparks from a piece of new 
flannel, fufflciently to pierce a hole through a card with its difcharge, p. 396. 
New flannel rubbed againft glafs will fometimes make it ele&ric, p. 397. An ex- 
periment with a piece of dry or warm flannel tied round the globe of an eleftrical 
machine, 397, 398. 
Fogs, contain the fame kind of eleftricity as the atmofphere, p. 50. Thick fogs con- 
tain the flrongeft electricity, ibid. The whole country of Peru involved in thick 
fogs during part of the year, p. 258. 
Food. An account of a woman living without food or drink, p. 1. See IFoman. 
Franklin , Dr. his theory of the Leyden-bottle, further illuftrated, p. ico. &c. 
Freezing point , concerning adjufting it in the thermometers, p. 856, 857. 
Frojiy and fair days in Briflol in the year 1776, their number, p. 354. 
Fynney, Mr. Fielding Bell, his account of the cafe of Ann Davenport, p. 458. See 
Davenport, 
G. 
Ganges , its waters held in great veneration by the Thibetians, p. 478. 
Gamas, (thick fogs) the whole country of Peru involved in them during part of the 
year, p. 258. 
Generation . Some refemblance of the male organs of generation in drones, p. iS. 
Geometer . The fubterraneous geometer’s method of finding the depths of mines in the 
Hartz, p. 423, 424. 
Geometers, almoft all their reafonings derived from Euclid, p. 430. Their reafonings 
with refpedt to proportional magnitudes very confined, p. 450, 451. An invefliga- 
tion concerning it, p. 431 — 437. 
Germany , barometrical obfervation-s on the depth of feveral mines there, p. 401. See 
Barometrical olfervations. 
Glafs. Obfervations on fome new and Angular phenomena in excited and charged glafs ; 
with experiments made in confequence thereof, further illuftrating the Franklinian 
theory of the Leyden-bottle, p. 98 — 116. Smooth glafs rubbed with a rabbit’s fkin 
acquires eledfricity, p. 397. Will fometimes become ele&ric when rubbed with new 
flannel, ibid. Solid glafs-rods dilate much lefs than barometer tubes, p.663, 664. 
A'folid glafs pendulum-rod dilates much lefs than a fteel-one, p. 698, 699. 
Glafs plates in ele&rical experiments, fealing- wax the bed coating for them, p. 
389, n„ 
Glafs tube hermetically fealed, and having fome quickfilver inclofed in its cavity, 
experiments made with one, p. 33 — 55. The difference of expanfion of the glafs 
tube and the fcale of thermometers, p. 834. 
GUnie , Mr. James, his general mathematical laws, which regulate and extend propor- 
tion univerfally \ or, a method of comparing magnitudes of any kind together, m 
ail the poffible degrees of increafe and decreafe, p. 450 — 457. 
Gold, 
