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Buxaduar , many of the plants peculiar to Bengal require nurfing at, p. 80. Buxaduar 
unhealthy to Grangers from May till September, p. 81. State of the thermometer 
there, ibid. Several excellent fprings of water in its neighbourhood, ibid. 
C. 
Cbalu, three fprings difcovered near this place, forcing their way through the ground, 
with violence, and giving rife to a lake many miles in extent, well-ftored with water- 
fowl and excellent filh, p. 92. The water of the lake impregnated with alum and 
felenetic earth, p. 93. The productions of Chalu, ibid. 
Chepta, its fituation and productions, p. 84. Here are feveral fprings, and one (lightly 
impregnated with iron, ibid. Between Chepta and Pagha, a mineral well, firongly 
impregnated with iron, difcovered by Mr. Saunders, ibid. State of the thermo- 
meter at Chepta, ibid. 
Chooka , two mineral wells (lightly impregnated with iron, difcovered by Mr. Saunders 
near, p. 83. Natives of Chooka not unacquainted with the method of extracting 
iron from the (tones, but defpife its ufe in building, ibid. 
Cold, artificial, experiments relating to the production of, p. 199, 
Coluber lauticaudatus, a fpecies of venomous ferpents, the fangs of which are as fmall 
as common teeth, p. 30. 
Comet, obfervations on, p. 15 1. Its fituation, p. 152. 
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D; 
Batura ferox, or Thorn-apple, ufed medicinally in China and Ibme parts of Thibet*, 
p. 89. A powerful narcotic, ibid. 
Dog . See Letter . 
Duma, productions of, p, 92, State of the thermometer at, ibid. 
Dukaigua , (late of the thermometer at, foil, and productions of, p» 90. Here are many 
fprings (lightly, impregnated with a felenetic earth, ibid. 
E. 
Barth, and other planets of the Copernican fyftem, are bodies not luminous in them- 
felves, p. 213. 
Eelipfe . See Sun. 
Elettricity, experiments and obfervations on, p. 265. On. the excitation of electricity, 
ibid. Plate machines do not colleCt more electricity than cylinders do with half the 
rubbed furface, p. 269. The line of light on a cylinder departing from a limple 
cufhion confifts of returning eJeClric/ty, p. 273. The projecting part of the cufhion 
compenfates the electricity upon the cylinder, and by diminifhing its intenfity prevents 
its (hiking back in fuch large quantities as it otherwife would do, ibid. The method 
of producing confiderable intenfity, ibid. The aCtion of the cylinder, by a fimple 
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