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king arid qoeeri.be Me, the animals, if undifiurbed, will nearly repair the whole in 
about a year, p. 189. Their loyalty and fidelity to their fovereigns, ibid. The 
marching Termites deferibed, p. 1S9. Some of the foldlers acl as regulating 
officers during their march, p. 190. The labourers and foldiers appear to have n» 
eves, p. igi. 
Soane , a river of India, p. qif 
Spirit of nitre. See Kimvan.' 
Spirit of fait. See Kirovan. 
Stanhope, -Hi Hip, Earl, his letter on adfedled equations^ p. ]g: t 
S 'im. See ASvjoocK 
■'TUmpio,;, Benjamin, Efq. his experiments on Gun-powder, p. 229. Defcription of 
the apparatus employed therein, p. 230. et feq. Defcription of the pendulum ft* 
Often, lining the velocity of the bullets, p. 234. Method of meafuring the recoil of 
trie barrel, p. 23b. Defcription of the gun-carriage, p. 237. The powder made 
° ’ P ; 23 p And the manner in which it was kept, and made into cartridges for 
me, ibid. Manner of charging the piece, p. 240. Table of the weights and 
dimenfions of the principal parts of the apparatus, p. 242. et feq. General table 
of the experiments, p. 243. Order of them, p. 246. et feq. Method of preventin'* 
the linpujfe of the fiame upon the pendulum, p. 247. Leaden bullets cart u P oI 
P . , ’ p ■ 2 >‘‘ f*P«'iments with powder only, p. 253. Of the method of 
computing the veloctties of the bullets, p. 256. Of the fpaccs occupied by different 
* i c-s oi powder, p, 257. Of the efred that the heat which pieces acquire in firing 
produces upon the force of powder, p. 278. The augmentation of the force of powder! 
w en fired from a warm piece accounted for, 279. Meal-p'owder the bell for priming, 
p. 2 o. Of the manner in which pieces acquire heat in firing, p. 261. Which heat is 
greater when fired with powder only than when with powder and ball, p. 262 
That ctrcumftance accounted for, ibid. Bullets are not heated by the fiame of the 
powder, but by percuffion againft hard bodies, p. 263. The running of the metal in 
brafs guns on repeated firing explained, p. 264. The vent of a piece lined with 
go.o is much more durable than one made in iron, ibid. To what the heat acquired 
7 8 r ln 1S owln £r p- -65. Obfervations on the generation of 
t.ui eat, p. 266. Ot the effetfi of ramming the powder in the chamber of the 
p'ece, p. 268. The refuit of different experiments with rammed and unrammed 
powder, ibid. Of the relation of the velocities of bullets to the charges of powder by 
V ' '■‘ J ;, L,ey are impelled, p. 270. Tables ihewing that when the weights and dimenfions 
ets aie t .e .am., and they are difeharged from the fame piece by different quan- 
tities-^ powder, the velocities are very nearly in ihe fub-duplicate ratio of the weights 
of the charges, ibid, 271. Of the effeft of placing the veut in diiftient parts of the 
charge* 
