Lions, fome in the fouthern nart nf ar,;.. + 
near the water f e L " , " P ' * 93 ' *>*• 3 > 3 - 3 > 6 - They lurk 
near the water, to feize on animals that come to drink, p , 0 8. 
L,,„,n. Ipintuous, ettpofed to the air during the ,a.e fro«, pcfcaiy frozen, p. 5 S 9 , 
Lifer, his opinion concerning air in the blood, p. 22g . 
"m f0 r f a ““pofi'i™ fornting artificial oner, p. { , 6 . 
ZrgitrW, a . fpec.es of ducks Falkland Iflandr, adefcription of them, p. I0+ . 
Z JlTf : the Wea,her tllere for °“ commencing with March 
W, 1 irr d fr0m thC metCOro, °S !cal ‘he Royal Society, p. 3;+ . See 
Z»9’, a fpecies of parrot, in the fouthern part of Africa, p. 294. 
lu„g, their ufe p. 227-237. Lungs and heart of a dog kept in motion with a pair 
of double bellows, p. 416, 417. r 
Lu^Uuri Rue St. Efprit, i« latitude, p. ,86. Obfereations there on the emerfion 
of 74 s firlt fatelirte, p. 186, ,87. 189. Emerfion of If’s fecond fatellite, p. ,88. 
Ecliple of the moon there, p. 190. ^ 
Lyndon, in Rutland, extradl of a regiffer of the barometer, thermometer, and rain 
kept there, for the year i 77S , p. 37 o. State of the barometer for the year, ibid’ 
Of the thermometer within and without, ibid. Quantity of rain, ibid. Compa- 
rative view of what rain came in the years 1740, 41, 42, and 43, and the years 
1 77 2 » 73 i 74 » and 7 5 > P- 37 r * The proportion that the mean months bear to the 
whole years at feveral periods, with refpeft to rain, ibid. General Hate of the 
weather there during the year 1775, p. 3 7 1 — 37 3. 
M. 
Maclride (Capt.), where he began the fettlement on Falkland Iflands, p. 99, 100 . 
Maclaurin , his fuppofed error in applying received doftrines of theory to practical 
mechanics, p. 454. 456, 457. 
Magnetical machine, an account of one contrived by the late Dr. Gowin Knight, p. 
591. Machine prefented to the Royal Society, ibid. Apart of it deflroyed by 
fire, and a new one made, p. 592. Circumftances relative to the Dolor’s planning 
and executing this machine, p. 593 — 595. Remark concerning an improvement in 
it, p. 595". Explanation of the representation of the machine, p. 597 — 599. 
it Jahon in the ifland of Minorca, from thence to Sc. Philip’s is one continued rock 
for two miles, p. 441,442. It abounds with frogs in the hot feafons, though dry 
and parched, p. 442. See Frogs. 
Males and females, their number in different places, p. 161. Lefs than females, 
ibid. 
Maloine IJlands (Falkland Iflands), where fituated, with an account of them, p. 99— 
tc8. Sec Falkland IJlands. 
Malphigius , his opinion concerning air in the blood, p. 229. 
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