VI 
CONTENTS. 
Voyage round the World . By Captain James Cook, 
F. R. S. Addreffed to Sir John Pringle, Bart . P. R. S. 
p. 402 
XXIII. Extraordinary EleSlricity of the At mofph ere obferved 
at Iflington on the Month of Odtober, 1775. By Mr, 
Tiberius Cavallo. Communicated by William Watfon, 
M. D . V, P. R. S. p. 407 
XXIV. Propofals for the Recovery of People apparently 
drowned. By John Hunter, Efq, F, R. S. p. 41 2 
XXV. An extraordinary Cure of wounded Inteflines, By 
Charles Nourfe, Surgeon , at Oxford. p. 426 
*XXV. Extradl of a Better from Mr, Alexander Small, 
Surgeon to the Train of Artillery at Minorca, to Sir 
John Pringle, Bart, P, R, S, Dated St. Philip’s, Aug, 
8> 1775 - P -439 
XXVI. Of the ’Tides in the South Seas. By Captain James 
% 
Cook, F . R. S, p. 447 
XXVII. An Experimental Examination of the Quantity 
and Proportion of Mechanic Power neceffary to be em- 
ployed in giving different Degrees of Velocity to Heavy 
Bodies from a State of Reft, By Mr. John Smeaton, 
F. R. S. p. 450 
XXVIII. A new and general Method of finding fimple and 
quickly-converging Series ; by which the Proportion of the 
Diameter of a Circle to its Circumference may eafily 
be computed to a great Number of Places of Figures, 
By Charles Hutton, Efq. F. R. S. p. 476 
XXIX. An Account of a very extraordinary Eff'ehl of 
Lightning on a Bullock , at Swanborow, in the PariJJj of 
3 Iford, 
