GENERAL INDEX. 
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education ,413 ; Ilia early voyages, ibid, 
remarkable elcape, ibid, marries and 
fettles at I.ifbon, ibid, conceives the 
idea of making dil'coverics to the welt- 
ward, ibid, offers his fervices to the 
Genoefe ftates, who reject them, 414 ; 
caul'e of his overtures being rejected in 
Portugal, ibid, applies to the courts of 
Caltile and England, ibid, is invited by 
Ifabella queen of Caftile, and engaged 
in the Spanilh fervice, ibid, fails from 
Spain, ibid, an ifland difeovered, 415 ; 
his firft interview with the natives, ibid, 
profecutes his difeoveries lbuthward, 
ibid, returns to Spain, ibid, hisfecond. 
\ BDOMEN, its diviilory.nto regions, 
contents, arteries, veins, and nerves, 
528 ; mufcles of, 570, 572. 
Abforbent fyftem, 629.633 ; abforbent 
vefiels, 630. 
Amphibious and aqueous animals, their 
conformation and parts, 667. 
Anus, mufcles of the, 571. 
Arm, 528, 532; fore-arm, 553. 
Arteries, 624-627 ; aorta and arteria pul- 
nionalis,624; arteriesof thearteries,625. 
Blood, 607 -, its parts, and quantity in the 
human body, 608 ; circulation of, 6cy. 
Bones, 525, 532; their i'ubfiance, and de¬ 
gree of fufeeptibiliry, 528, 529; their 
formation, 532; technical terms toex- 
prefs their conneCiion, 533 ; bones of 
t lie head, 534-544; oft lie trunk, 5 44, &c. 
Brain, 531, 591 ; veins thereof, 594 ; 
nerves, 595. 
Brealts, 604. 
Burfse mucofe deferibed, 638. 
Carnivorous bird, anatomy of one, 666. 
Carpus, its ligure, fubltance, articulation, 
motion, &c. 554. 
Cartilages, 526; their fubltance, 529; 
cartilages and ligaments of the joints, 
582; cartilages of theitemum and ribs, 
583 ; of tile pelvis and inferior extre¬ 
mities, 584. See Ligaments. 
Cellular fubltance, its feveral ufes, 529. 
Cerebellum, 593. 
Cerebrum, 592. 
Chyle, its preparation, Sec. 632. 
Clalfification of the various part§ of the 
human body, 525, 527. 
Cock, anatomy of, 661 ; its cefophagus, 
and how digeltion is performed 661 ; 
duodenum and fmall guts, 662 ; lym¬ 
phatic l'yltem and courld of the laCteals, 
ibid, kidneys and organs of geneiation, 
663 ; nutrition of the foetus, ibid, de- 
l'cription of the parts about the neck and 
head, 666 ; the eye and ear, ibid. 
Comparative anatomy, 652-671. 
Corpus adipolum 588. 
Cow, anatomy of, 658; confidered as a 
ruminating animal, 659; progrefs of 
the food, and changes produced on it 
in the different ftomachs, 660 ; parts of 
generation, and heart, ibid. 
Cranium, or fcull, 527. 
Cuticle, or fcarf-ikin, 586. 
Cutis vera, its texture, papilla, appear- 
■ ance, inflammation, Sec. 587. 
Digeltion, 615. 
Dog, anatomy of, 652; does not fweat, but 
perfpires infenlioly, ibid, liomach and 
iuteltines, 653 ; pancreas, fpleen, and 
liver, 654; kidneys and giamlulae at- 
rabilaria:, ibid, fpermatic veifels, fero ■ 
turn, &c. 655 ; their manner of gene- 
third, and fourth, voyages to America, 
415 ; his death, ibid. 
Columbus, Bartholomew, is fent by his 
brother Chriftopher to negociate with 
Henry VI 1 . of England, 414. 
Commerce of the United States, 468. 
Conftitution of the United States, 466. 
Convention between France and Ame¬ 
rica, 455. 
Hell-gate, ftraits fo called, 450. 
Lakes in America, the largeft in the world, 
417. 
Lexington, battle of, 441. 
Logan, an Indian chief,his eloquentfpeech 
to Lor^ Dunmore, 424. 
A N A T O M Y. 
ration accounted for, 655; diaphragm, 
mamnue, and heart, ibid, thymus and 
lungs, 656; neck and jaws, ibid, tongue 
nofe, car, and eye, 657 ; brain, &c. 658. 
Dura mater, 591. 
Ear, its various parts, 601 ; how acted 
upon by the air, 602. 
F.gg, its gradual changes by incubation, 
663. 
Extremities, the upper, of the human 
body, 527, 551 ; the lower, 528, 556. 
Eye, 597 > ' ts different coats, ibid, vitre¬ 
ous humourand white,ibid. eye-brows, 
palpebrse, lachrymal gland, Sec. 598 ; 
piKEiioniena of the eye, with tile dif¬ 
ferent modes in which objedls are dif- 
cernecl, 599. 
Face, comprehends the forehead, eye¬ 
brows, cheeks, ears, upper and lower 
jaw, &c. 527. 
Fat, how formed; difTerencebet ween mar¬ 
row and fat, ibid. 
Feeling, 589. 
Female lkelcton, diftinguifhiflg marks of 
it, 540. 
Fibres, 526 ; mufcular and nervous, 530. 
Fibula, its articulation and ul'e, 557. 
Fingers, their bones, phalanges, Sec. 555. 
Fifties, their peculiar conformation, 667; 
abdomen, fpleen, and organs of gene¬ 
ration, 668; fwinuning-bladder, heart, 
and abforbent lyftetn, 669 ; brain, or¬ 
gans offmelling,feeing,and hearing,670. 
Foot, compofedof tarlus, metatarfus, and 
toes, 558. 
Fowls, anatomy of, 660-666. See Cock. 
Glands, 527. 
Gravid uterus, anatomy of, 641-652. 
Growth and decay, 639. 
Hairs, their texture and ufe, 589. 
Hand, confifts of carpus, metacarpus, and 
fingers, 534. 
Hawk, anatomy of, 666. 
Head, 527, 591. See Brain. 
Hearing, phenomena of, 602. 
Heart, with its ventricles and auricles, 
605 ; motion of the blood to and from 
the heart, 606. 
Hermaphrodites, 623. 
Infecls, their general ftru&ure, 670 ; dif¬ 
ference of fex, 671 ; are not produced 
by putrefaction ; their various changes, 
Sec. ibid. 
Integuments, their fituation, fize, and di- 
vilions, 586. 
Intefiines, 613. 
Kidneys,their three different fubftancesfi 16 
Laiynx, its ufes, 603. 
Leg, compofed of tibia, fibula, Sec. 556. 
Ligaments, 526 ; of tlie lower jaw and 
temporal bones, 582; of the occipital 
bone and vertebras of the neck, ibid, of 
Mariners compafs, 413. 
San Salvador, the ifland firft difeovered in 
America by Columbus, 415. 
Staten Ifland, defeat of the Ameiican* 
there, 449. 
Treaty of peace concluded between France 
and America, 455 ; between Great Bri¬ 
tain and the United States, 465. 
Wafhington, George, appointed comman¬ 
der in chief of the American army, 441; 
his various operations throughout the 
war, 446, Sec. Sec. elecled pieiident of 
the United States, ibid. 
the vertebras, 583 ; of the fternum, ver¬ 
tebras, and ribs, ibid, of the clavicle and 
fcapula, ibid, between the lea pul a and 
oshumeri, 584; ofthejointoftheelbow, 
ibid, joining the head of the radius to tiie 
ulna, ibid, between the bodies of the 
radius and ulna, ibid, of the inferior 
extremity of the bones of the fore-arm, 
ibid, of the carpus and bones of the 
fingers, ibid, of the hand and fingers 
in fitu, ibid, of the pelvis, 585 ; be¬ 
tween the pelvis and head of the os fe- 
moris, ibid, at the joint of the knee, 
ibid, of the fibula and inferior extre¬ 
mity of the leg, ibid, the baiis of the 
metatarfal bones, ibid. 
Liver, 615. 
Lungs, their parts and office, 610. 
Lymphatics of the lovverextremities, 629; 
of the head and neck, 63 1 ; of the up¬ 
per extremities, ibid. 
Marrow, its fenfibility, 526 ; different 
from fat, 527. 
Medulla oblongata, 593; medulla fpinalis, 
594 - 
Membranes, 526. 
Menftruation, 621. 
Metacarpus, 555. 
Metatarfus, 559. 
Mouth, its parts, 602. 
Mufcles, 527, 530, 561-579; of the cra¬ 
nium, 567; of tliecar, ibid, of the eye¬ 
ball, 568 ; of tile nofe, mouth, and lips, 
ibid, of the neck, 569, 573 ; between 
the lower jaw and the os hyoides, 569; 
between the os hyoides and trunk, ibid, 
at the entry to the fauces, 570 ; on the 
pofterior part of the pharynx, ibid, 
about tiie glottis, ibid, on the anterior 
parts of the abdomen, ibid, of the or¬ 
gans of generation, and anus, 571 ; with¬ 
in the pelvis and abdomen, 572 ; be¬ 
tween the ribs and within the thorax, 
573 ; on the pofterior part of the trunk, 
ibid, of the fuperior extremities, 574 ; 
on the oshumeri and fore arm, 575 ; 
on the hand, 576; of the inferior ex¬ 
tremities, 577 ; on the thigh, ibid, of 
the leg, 578 ; of the foot, 579. Ex¬ 
planation of three Plates of mufcles, 
ibid. 
Nails, how formed ; their texture and ufe, 
588. 
Neck, divided into the anterior and pof¬ 
terior parts, 527. 
Nerves, 527, 531, 595, 633 ; nervous fluid, 
637. 
Noie, its different parts, 600; phenomena 
of fmelling, 6ot. 
Omentum, or caul, 616. 
Os facrurn, 557 ; os coccygis, or rump- 
bone, 548 ; os ilium, or iiaunch-bone, 
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