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Botlcy Hill , nearly on the fame meridian with Greenwich, p. 207. Its fituation fouth of 
Greenwich determined, ib. Its latitude, longitude, &c. p.232. 
Brahmans , the depofitaries of fcience as well as ot religion, p. 562. 
Brafs dull, mixed with red precipitate yields fixed air, p. 71. 
Brin Hill, its longitude weft of Greenwich determined, p. 390. Its latitude deter- 
mined, ib. 
Bugge, Thomas, obfervations on the planets Venus and Mars, p. 21. 
C. 
Cabbage. An aerial fluid, in mod of its properties refembling animal hepatic air, 
obtained, by dillillation, from the green leaves ot a cabbage, p. 419. 
Calais , Notre Dame Church ar, its latitude, longitude, &c. p.232. Refradion on too 
diftance between Dover Caftle and Notre Dame at Calais, p. 241. 
Cala'viniy in Grenada, colonies of fugar ants obfervcd at, p. 34 ^* 
Cambridge, its latitude, p. ioi» 
Cancers , feveral varieties in the colour and confiftence of the matter difeharged by, p. 
391. The matter of cancerous ulcers, in fome cafes, of a pale aft colour ; in others, 
of a reddifh caft; and, in many inftances, more or lels of a brown tinge, fometime9 
approaching nearly to biack, ib. Its confidence moity thin, ib. A white fordes 
frequently found in cancerous ulcers, ib. The appearance ot the dii'charge of can- 
cerous matter frequently varied by internal remedies, or by external applications, ib. 
The cancerous ulcer, in its advanced ftage, accompanied with a peculiar odour, more 
highly fetid and offenfive than that which is emitted by other malignant ulcers, ib. 
Cancerous matter occafions, by its abforption, fthirrous tumors 01 the lymphatic 
glands contiguous to the parts affeCted, ib. Cancerous matter gradually corrodes the 
branches of the larger blood veflels which have a peculiar power ot refilling theadion 
of other purulent difeharges, p. 392. Cancerous matter contains a principle which 
has many of the properties of hepatic air, p. 3 98. Matter ot cancer impregnated 
with an alkali which is in fuch a ftate as to change the colour of vegetable tin&ures, 
Ib. The animal fibres in cancerous and other malignant ulcers undergo nearly the 
fame changes which are produced in them by putrefaction, p. 4 2 3 * 
Cajlles, John, on Sugar Ants, p. 346. 
Cavenchjh , Henry, on the height of a luminous arch, which was feen, Feb. 23, 1784, 
p. 101. 
Charcoal decompofed by heat only, produces phlogifticated and heavy inflammable airs, 
p. 68. Phlogidicated and heavy inflammable airs conftitute charcoal, p. 69. 
Child , account of one with a double head, p. 296. Obfervations on its fuperior or in- 
verted head, p. 298. Killed by the bite of a Cobra de capelo, p. 301. 
Chronology of the Hindoos, obfervations on, p. 560. See Hindoos, 
Cocao begins to bear in five years, but yields little till the feventh, p. 358. By far the 
greateft part of fugar lands unfit for the culture of cocao, ib» 
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