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INDEX. 
Steam-hoatSy on the application of oars to, 33.— one arrives from Ame- 
rica at Liverpool^ 197* — their use in distant voyages, ih. 
Steam, on the production of, 340. 
Steam-engines, sediment in the boilers of, 340. 
Steve7ison, Mr R., on the Scottish fisheries in 1819j 129- 
Stewart, Mr John, on the buxbaumia aphylla, 377* 
Straw melts into glass, 194. 
Suns altitude, table for correcting it, 31 6. 
Subterranean lakes, bursting of, 307* 
Swallow, white, 391. 
Sympiesometer, utility of, in indicating storms, 1Q6, 
T 
Tahasheer, on the optical properties of, 07- 
Table of proportional logarithms, 96 . — for correcting the sun’s alti- 
tude, 318. — ^meteorological, for 1819^ 371. — of the composition of 
different sea- waters, 362. 
Tartt, Mr, on the earthquakes of South Carolina, 300. 
Tea, cultivation of, in Brazil, 395. 
Temperature, mean, of the earth, 376. 
Thermometers, economical scales for, 187. 
Titanitic iron-ore, I90. 
Topaz, geognostical situation of, 189* 
Tourmalines, American, 188. 
Traill, Dr, on a new species of Simia, 181 . — on of a white s wallow, 391 , 
Trap and clay -slate formation in Brecknockshire, 253. 
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Variation of the needle, 179« 
— — of the needle, diurnal, 373. 
Vegetable cells, primitive form of, 
Ulmine, artificial, 384. 
Volcanic rocks in France and Scotland, 326. 
W ' . . 
Watt, Mr James, his improvements on the steam-engine, 1 on new 
crometers, 121. — on a new perspective machine, 259* 
Weather, singular state of, in January 1820, 335. 
Wernerian Society, proceedings of, 181. and 377. 
Whytock, Mr, on the application of oars to steam-boats, 33. 
Wine from the arbutus unedo, I 99 . 
Wollaston, Dr, discovers potash in sea-water, 325. 
Warms, intestinal, 390. 
Y 
Young, Mr John, on the manufacture of poppy oil, 14. 
Z 
Zach, Baron, on the errors of repeating circles, 183. 
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