appearance, being more like smooth sand or gravel; but the shell increased in thickness. If this can be turned to account, in respect to keeping boilers and pipes clear, or shewing the nature of the land through which the streams have passed, I shall be happy. 1791, March. H INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. A. ABRAXAS, 41. Accents, Dissertation on, 385. Acta Diurna, 1. Adages, Greek and Latin, 162, 199. Adam, his beard, 293;—his voice, 294. Addison, on Paradise Lost, 360, 368;-his observation on Virgil's Achates, 378. Enigma, antiquity of the, 40. Ajax, the silence of, in the infernal shades, 164, Albumazar, comment on the old play of, 98. Allegories in ancient history accounted for, 95, Analogy of language, remarks on, 173, note. An't please the pigs, 88. Antiquities, Roman, discovered, 454. Apuleius, 358. Arabian Tales, on the authenticity of, 382. Architecture, Treatises on Saxon and Gothic, 249, Aristophanes, 328. Articles, on the promiscuous use of, 333, Assassin, origin of the word, 146, Astle on Writing, 281.. Atherton Cliffs, natural curiosities found at, 458. Auca, the signification of, 113. Authors, on the mistakes of, 157. B. Baragouin, etymology of, 132. Barometer, the utility of, in agriculture, 523. Barrigenæ, who, 129, 131. Bath waters, phenomenon of the, 488. Bathurst, Dr. Ralph, his death, 495. Baudius, his Latin verses addressed to his friends, 171. Beards, extraordinary remark relating to, 293. Bentham, on Saxon and Gothic Architecture, 249. Bentley, a passage from one of his Sermons, 246;-on Paradise Bible, various English translations of, 116;-the translators of, Bibles, Manuscript, 16. Biblical difficulties obviated, 93. Birds, their power of digestion, 427; carnivorous, 433. Blayney, Dr. his account of the collation and revision of the Eng- lish Bible, 148. Bleak, on the word, 238. 1 Bones, on the brittleness of, in frosts, 494;-whether oily sub. Bonfire, 202. Borsholder, 201. Bourn, whence derived, 356. Breviaries, 23. Bristol, fossil bones dug up near, 461. Bull's blood, a poison among the ancients, 414. Burton, his Latin Preface intended for the History of Leicester. shire, 378. Burton, in Sussex, elephants bones found at, 460. C. Cat in the pan, to turn, 66. Catsgrove, fossils found at, 459. Catalogue of the Harleian Library, 8. Catalogues, book, the utility of, 9, 10. Cats, electricity in, 437. Catullus, critical remark on, 158. Cedars, on the growth of, in England, 512. Cervantes, 358. Cesena, accident which happened to a woman at, 402. Chaucer, on the sleep of plants, 110;-on the gossamer, 478. Chesable, what, 109, note. Chesnut-tree at Tamworth, 487. Child, gigantic, account of, 519. Chronicles, 25. Cicero, on a passage in his treatise De Senectute, 125;-De Ora tore, 311; his use of exclamations, 343. Classic authors perverted, 87. Claudius Etruscus, the bath of, 159. Cleveland, 312. Cochineal, history and culture of, 423. Colours, passages relating to, often obscure, 269. Coluber of Virgil, 471. Cowley, 322. Crashaw, epitaph by, 243;-imitated by Pope, 324. Crasis, the grammatical figure, 216. Crowder, as cunning as, 64. D. Daisy, derivation of, 111. De Imitatione Christi, inquiry concerning the real author of that work, 177. Despair, as described by the poets, 338. Devil's verses, 161. Dew, on the phenomenon of, 472. Dido, the silence of, in the infernal shades, 164. Digestion, experiments on, 426. Divining-rod, 527. Don, elephants bones found on the bank of that river, 463. Dreams, the causes of, 391;-Joy and grief in, why superior to Dryden, on the English Language, 77;—his description of Night, Dugdale, letter of, 381. E. Earing, explanation of the word, 89. Elden-hole, in Derbyshire, 422. Electricity in cats, 437. Elephant brought into Britain by the Romans, 462. Ellipsis, instances of, in Shakespeare, 127;-observations on that Enfield, dimensions of a cedar at, 513. English language, very vague, 77. Erdeswick, 379. Evaporation, 480, 482. Expressions, local, illustrated, 368. F. Faringdon, fossils found at, 459. Fire, in the earth, 420;-from the bowels of a beast, 445 ;-kin dled of itself, 489. Firm, origin of the word, 245. Flaccus, Valerius, critical remark on, 158. Forster, on Greek accent, 386. Fossil bones discovered in several counties, 460;-in the vicinity of Oxford, 468. Free Martin, account of, 517. Furring, to keep metal pipes or boilers from, 527. G. Gauden, Bp. 54. Gibraltar, bones found in a fragment of the rock, 466. Gossamer, observations on the, 476. Gay, Pope's epitaph on, borrowed, 242. Gellius, Aulus, on the power of music, 414. Gizzard, power of, 428. Gloss, whence derived, 46. Gray, Criticism on his Bard, 237;-addition to his Church-yard Grief, as described by the poets, 338. Griffin, one of the supporters of the Royal Arms, 264. Hammond's Elegies, 243. H. Harleian Library, Catalogue of, 8. Harleian Manuscripts, 15. Harmony, sentimental, 155. Harvey, Dr. his account of the dissection of old Parr, 499. |