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a con fide fable defect of, in the year 1788, p. 37. The quantity of rain fallen 
at Kimbokon compared with that of the feven preceding year?, ibid. Monthly flate 
of rain for 17885 p. 38. Quantities of rain during the year 1788, p. 114 — 138. 
lie gift er. Abftraflt of a regifter, of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon in 
Rutland t alfo of the rain at South Lambeth in Surrey, and at Selbourn and Fyfield 
in Hamplhire, p. 162. 
Reichcl , Baron, on a mender cf the human fpecies, p. 157. 
Remarks on the conftruCtion of the heavens, p. 212. 
Rock fair, univerfally ufed for all do me flic purpofes in Thibet, Boutan, and Naphaul, 
P* 97* 
S. 
■Sales, neutral, which produce any remarkable degree of cold by folution in mineral 
acids, lofe their freezing property, when deprived of their water of cryftallization, 
p. 209 . 
Sanha, productions of, p. 90. State of the thermometer at, ibid. 
Satellite , See Saturn. • 
Saturn (the planet) has a fixth fateliite revolving round it, p. 255. 
Saunders , Robert, on the vegetable and mineral productions of Boutan and Thibet, 
P 79* 
Seluh, here is a hot well much frequented by people with venereal complaints, rheuma- 
tifm, and all cutaneous difeafes, p. 94. State of the thermometer when immerfed 
in the water of this well, ibid. Its water contains a portion of hepar fulphuris, 
ibid. 
Serpents , venomous fangs in, merely ofFenflve weapons, p. 33. Situation of venomous 
fangs always in the anterior and exterior parts of the upper jaw, p. 34. All veno- 
mous ferpentshave only two rows of teeth, but all others have four, p. 35. Propor- 
tion of venomous (erpents to others, as 1 to 10, p. 36. 
Zimadar , its foil very barren and unpromiiing, p. 93. Its productions, ibid. 
Small-pox , not treated properly by the phyficians of Thibet, p. 103. 
Smeaton, Mr. John, defeription cf an improvement in the application of the quadrant 
of altitude to a celettial globe, for the refolutiori of problems dependent on azimuth 
and ahitude, p. 1. 
Q6. 
Spring, indications of, p. 1 34- 
Sta^s, catalogue of a thoufand new nebulae and clutters of, p. 226— -234. Every Aar 
ftrppofed to be a fun, firming by its own native brightnefs, pp. 213, 214. 
Sulphur . By fending a fleam over melted fulphur, a fmall quantity of inflammable air 
is procured, p. 13. Turbith mineral mixed with fulphur makes it yield vitriolic 
4 acid 
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