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Tuans Kloof \ a rugged, narrow paflage, through a chain of mountains in the foutliern 
part of Africa, fome account of it, p. 281, 282. 
Electricity, may caufe abfolute and infiantaneous death, p. 413. 
Electricity, an account of fome attempts to imitate the effefts of the torpedo by it, p. 
196. An examination whether the phenomena of the torpedo are produced by elec- 
tricity, p, 195. Shock of the torpedo perceived when the iifh is held under water,, 
no way inconfident with the fuppofition that they are, p. 197. 200. 212, 213. Why 
the fliock of the torpedo has never been accompanied with any fpark or light, or 
with the lead degree of attradlion or repulfion, p. 200. 203, zop. 218. 224, 225. 
Experiments fhewing the principle on which this depends, p. 200 — 204. Appara- 
tus to examine how far the phenomena of the torpedo would agree with e’edlricity, 
p.204. 2to. 221. Experiments thereon, p. 203 — 225. Extraordinary eleftricity 
of the atmofphere obferved at Iflington on the month of Oftober, 177$, p. 407. 
An account of the quadrant electrometer, and other apparatus ufed wdth an elec- 
trical kite on this occafion, p. 407, 408. Kite raifed about 310 feet for the experi- 
ment, p. 408. The electricity difeovered po/itive and pretty ftrong , ibid. The 
eleftricity increafed and decreafed by the palling of a cloud, ibid. Coated phials 
charged from the tiring of the kite, and feveral Ihocks given with them, ibid. 
Extraordinary decreafe and increafe of the eleCtricity on [the approach and palling 
of a large black cloud, p. 409 — 411. Kite pulled in on the approach of a 
larger and denfer cloud for fear of accidents, p.411. Shocks received from the 
firing in pulling in, ibid. No thunder or lightning perceived in the day, nor for 
fome few days before or after the experiments, ibid. Experiments and obfervations 
on a new apparatus for exhibiting perpetual eleCtricity, p. 513 — 522. 
Elettrometer , an accurate one, of what it confided, p. 201, 20 2. Mr. Lane’s deferibed, 
p. 202. 
Elephants , fome in the fouthern part of Africa, p. 289. 293. The larged lhare of true 
remains of elephants where found, p. 528. 
Ellis , Mr. John, on the nature of the Gorgonia; that it is a real marine animal, and 
not of a mixed nature between animal and vegetable, p. 1. See Gorgonia. 
Efts Kraal, a fmall cottage in the fouthern part of Africa, a fmall fpecies of antelope 
there, p. £69. 
England, an emanation of the Romance language introduced there, p. 150—152. 
Some account of the weather in the fouth of England in the year 1775, p. 373. 
Erica tormentofa , a remarkable fpecies of heath, in the fouthern part of Africa, p. 299. 
European, remarkable hidory of one (a native of Swedilh Pomerania) redding in the 
fouthern part of Africa, p. 288. 
Experiments on Platina, p. 262. See Platina. Experiments on ignited bodies, p. 509 
r I2t 575 577. Experiments with an eleCtrical kite, p. 407 4 11 * Experi- 
ments and obfervations on a new apparatus for exhibiting perpetual elearicity, 
D. 513—522. Experiments and obfervations made during the late frod, at Nor- 
thampton, p. 587. See Frojl. Experiments made in order to afeertain the nature of 
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