Sofinis, a village in Upper Egypt,-353. 
Solyman the Legislator, emperor of the 
Turks, fettles the government of Egypt 
by a pacha, 328 
Sphinxes and ofcelifks, 377. 
Sultans govern Egypt, 321-327. 
Syene in Upper Egypt taken by the French, 
330; taken and retaken, 331 ; its ruins, 353. 
Tachos, king of Egypt, 297. 
Tentyra, or Berbeh, 357; the zodiac and 
planifphere, 357, 358 j the temple,357,375. 
A IR always eledliified, 431; a non-con- 
. dudtor, 432. 
Amber, the firft known eledlrical fubftance, 
4_°7 ■ 
Animal eledlricity, or galvanifm, principles 
of, 433; experiments, of Volta, Carlifle, 
Nicholfon, 434, 435 ; proved identical 
with common eledlricity, 437, 438 ; ex¬ 
periments of M. Bichat, 438,439 ; fim- 
ple combinations, 442 5 decompofes wa¬ 
ter, 444 j and o'her fluids, 445 ; medical 
eft'edts, ibid, in palfies, deafnefs, &c, 446 ; 
Wilkinfon’s pradtice, 447 ; experiments 
on dead bodies, 448. 
Animal magnetifm, 434. 
Apparatus, eledlrical, 410; galvanic, 434. 
Battery-, eledtrical, 412 ; defcribed, 413 ; 
galvanic, 435 ; combination of, 443 ; to 
regulate the flrock from, 444. 
Eeccaria’s experiments in eledlricity, 408, 
Bells, eledlric, 1, 413. 
Boyle’s aifcoveties in eledlricity, 407. 
Canton’s experiments with the Leyden phial, 
4115 his eledlrometer, 4x4 
Cavallo’s experiments with theLeyden phial, 
413; his eledlrometer, 414 j experiments 
on the air, 43 1. 
Cavendifh, Mr. his mathematical demonftra- 
tions of eledlricity, 4C9 ; his explanation 
the adtion of points, 428. 
Charcoal a good condudtor of eledlricity and 
galvanifm, 442 ; the belt medium for the 
deflagration of metals, 445. 
Condenfor, invented by Volta, 421 ; im¬ 
proved by Cavallo, 422 
Condudtor, or prime condudlor of an eledlri- 
cal machine, 410, 425. 
Condudtors diftinguilhed from eledtrics, 407, 
408, 425 5 lift of condudtors and non-con- 
oiidtors, of eledlricity, 426 4 of galvanifm, 
440 j condudtors for lightning, 432. 
Coulomb’s eledlrometer, 4x8. 
Cruiklhank’s improvement on the voltaic 
pile, 443. 
Cuthbertfon’s large eledtrical machine, 410 3 
his electrometer, 414. 
Deafnefs cured by galvanifm, 446, 447. 
Del'aguliers, Dr. his difcoverits in eledlricity, 
408 J his thread of trial, or eledlrometer, 
414 
Diicharging-rod, 412. 
Du Faye, 407 3 difcovers the vitreous and 
refincus eledlricities, 408. 
Eledlric fubftances, fucceflively difcovered 
by Thales and Theopraltus,Gilbert, Boyle, 
A BERCROMBY, Gen. commands the 
Bombay army againft Tippoo Saib, 
776; ferves in the Helder expedition, 7925 
killed in Egypt, 337, 795. 
Addington, Henry, made fpeaker of the 
ENERAL INDE? 
Thebes and its hundred gates, 290, 346, 
347 ; its temple, 348. 
Timaus, Egypt fubdued by marauders in 
his time, 292. 
Toman Bey, the laft of the Egyptian fultans, 
3 - 27 - 
Touron Shah, fultan of Egypt, 325 ; takes 
the king of France prifoner, 326; mur¬ 
dered by the Mamalukes, ibid. 
Typhon and Ifis, a curious tradition of, 
’367. 
ELECTRICITY 
&c. 407 ; diftinguilhed from non-eledlrics 
or condudlors, 407, 408 ; two eledlric 
fluids, 408, 425 ; Mr. Ruflell’s dodlrine, 
423; M. du Faye’s and Franklin’s, 425; 
eledlric fluid the fame with lightning, 43 13 
eledtrical fifties, 433. 
Eledlricity, its firlt difcovery, and fucceflive 
improvement by-Dr. Gilbert, Mr. Boyle, 
Otto Gueriche, Dr. Wall, Sir I. Newton, 
Hawkelbee, Grey, and Du Faye, 407; 
Defaguiiers, Ludolph, Watfon, Franklin, 
Canton, Beccaria, and Dr. Prieftley, 408 ; 
the true theory, 4^9 ; medical and ma¬ 
thematical, ibid, fyftematical ftatement 
of its phenomena, 425-434; analogy be¬ 
tween it and magnetifm, 434 3 identical 
with galvanifm, 434. 
Eledlrometers, feveral kinds, 414-419. 
Eledtrophorus, invented by Volta, 417. 
Franklin, Dr. difcovers the identity between 
eledlricity 2nd' lightning, 408 ; his ex¬ 
planation of the phenomena of the Leyden 
phial, and conftrudlion of a battery, 412 3 
his eledtrical kite, 413 ; his pofitive and 
negative, or plus and minus, eledlricity, 
423, 427. 
Frogs, much ufed in galvanic experiments, 
433 ; how to prepare, 440. 
Galvanifm, or animal eledlricity, 433-448 3 
Wilkinfon’s application of to medical pur- 
pofes, 447 : in fufpended animation, 448. 
Galvanometer or galvanifcope, 440, 445. 
Gilbert, Dr. his early difcoveries, 407. 
Grey, Mr. difcovers the difference between 
condudlors and non-condudlors, &c. 407, 
408. 
Gymnotus eledtricus, the eledtrical eel, 433. 
Hauch’s balance eledlrometer, 415 3 experi¬ 
ments of his, 431. 
Hawklbee’s improvementsof eledlricity,407. 
Henley’s experiments on condudling fub- 
ftances, 409 ; his luminous condudlor, 
410 ; his quadrant eledlrometer, 414. 
Infulation explained, 424. 
Kite, eledtrical, 413. 
Lane’s eledlrometer, 410, 4x4. 
Lawfon’s difeharging eledlrometer, 416. 
Leyden phial difcovered,408; defcribed,411; 
Monnier’s and Franklin’s difcoveries, 412; 
Cavallo’s experiments,4x3 j other experi¬ 
ments, 430, 431. 
Lightning identical with eledlricity, 431 ; 
how to fecure buildings from, 431, 432. 
Ludolf, firft fets fire to inflammable fub¬ 
ftances by eledlricity, 408. 
E N G L A N Do 
houfe of commons, 773 ; prime minifter, 
793 ; retires with honour, 796. 
Adrian builds a wall from the Eden to the 
Tyne, 541. 
Agincourt, battle of, 609. 
915 
L T choreus, places the feat of government at 
Memphis, 292. 
L T pper Egypt, the war fuftained there by 
Defaix againft Mourad Bey 329 ; Mou- 
rad reduced,and honourably treated, 336} 
blood fpilt there, 343 ; antiquities and 
curiofities, 346. 
Zobeir, an adlive general of the Saracens, 
316 ; his extraordinary modefty, 317. 
Zodiac and planifphere at Tentyra, 357, 
358, 374 ; at Efneh, 374. 
Machines, eledtrical, 4ro; the grand Tey- 
Jerian machine at Haeilem, 4x1. 
Magnetifm and animal magnetifm, 434. 
Medical eledlricity, 409 ; galvanic, 445- 
447 - 
Metals, deflagration of, 436; oxydation, 
443; plates of, for galvanic experiments, 
444; to llrike their oxyds upon paper, 
445 - 
Newton, fir Ifaac, difcovers that eledlric at- 
tradlion and repulfion penetrates glafs, 407.; 
left the difcovery imperfedt, 425. 
Nerves, arming or coating of, for galvanic ex¬ 
periments, 440. 
Nicholfon andCarlifle’s galvanic experiments., 
43 5 - 
Points , adlion of, 409, 426, 427; not per- 
fedtly underftood by Franklin, 427 j ac¬ 
counted for by Cavendilh, 428. 
Poles of eledlricity, 426. 
Prieftley’s difcoveries,408; his machine,41a. 
Returning firoke, firft difcovered by earl 
Stanhope, 432. 
Richman, proftffbr, kTlied by lightning from 
his own eledlrical battery, 431. 
Rubber of the machine, 410, 
Ruffel’s dodlrine of the eledlric fluid, 423. 
Shock, eledlrical, 408,431; to communi¬ 
cate to any part of the body, 411 3 its 
force, 430. 
Single eledlric fluid demonftrated, 430. 
Spark, eledlrical, its effedts, 425. 
Silver and zinc, the bed galvanic combina¬ 
tion, 440 3 filver how difcoloured by eat¬ 
ing eggs, 442. 
Torpedo, its eledlrical properties, 433. 
Volta, his eledtrophorus, 419 ; his conden- 
fer, 421 3 demonftrates that eledlricity and 
galvanilm are the fame, 434 ; his appara¬ 
tus and galvanic experiments, 434, 435,. 
436; on a feries of metals, 443; his 
moto-eledlrical apparatus, 444. 
Wall, Dr. obferves the fimiiarity between 
eledlricity and ligntning, 407. 
Water, decompofition of, by the voltaic pile, 
435 5 by common eledlricity, 436 ; Dr. 
Wollafton’s method, 444 ; water, or other 
fluid, in galvanic experiments, adts not as 
a condudlor, but by oxydating the metal, 
443 - 
Watlon and Franklin make a fimiiar difeo- 
very, 408 ; his experiments on the Ley¬ 
den phial, 411. 
Wollafton on the identity of the galvanic 
and eledlric fluids, 436, 
Agitators, a fort of armed parliament, 676, 
Agricola, his proceedings in Britain, 540. \ 
Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 720. 
Alban’s (St.) battle of, 616; fecoxid battle 
of, 617. 
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