è country moft famous for
idolatry, &c. 666.
H.
M. du, his experiments on
the strength of timber, 687.
HAPPINESS, public, how far affected by
the revolut. of ftates and empires, 665.
HENRY V. favourable traits of his cha-
racter, 652. Milled by the church-
men, ib.
HERCULANEUM, account of the anti-
quities difcovered there, 629.
HISTORY, ancient, fab. nature of, 659.
HOLLIDAYS pernicious to the poor, 657.
HYDROMETERS, obf. on, 687.
I.
ARS, M. his obf. on the circulation
of air in mines, 684.
IDEAS, obfcure, that term defined, 673.
JESUIT, dialogue between one and a
Counsellor, 663.
INDIA Company, when firft formed, 637,
Its original fund, 638. Their first
eftablishment in India merely mercan-
tile, ib. Their ftruggles with the
Dutch, 639.
ISLANDERS, flower than the inhabitants
of a continent, in the arts of refinement
and civilization, 634.
AMBERT, M. his memoir on the
Lovelocity of found, 670.
on the proper gradations of
light and colours in painting, 671.
LANDE, M. de la, his 3d memoir on the
theory of mercury, 677.
LE MONNIER, M. his obferv. on the
height of the fun in the fummer fol-
ftice of 1767, 675.
LORETTO, Lady of, fuperftitious vene-
ration of the Papifts for, 654. Shock-
ing inftance of, ib,
LORRAINE, Cardinal, Voltaire's dream
concerning him, 651.
LUYNES, Cardinal de, his barometrical
experiments, 683.
ACQUER, his memoir on the claf-
tic refin of Cayenne, 689.
MARGGRAF, M. his account of the vo-
latilisation of a cert. kind of stone, 6 9.
MAZEAS, Abbé, his account of encauftic
painting, 647.
MEAD, Dr. his capital collection of draw-
ings inacceffible to the public, 630.
MINES. See DAMPS.
Sdoctrine of eclipfes, 676.
SOUND, velocity of, 670.
SPINOZA, his creed, 659. His fenti-
EJOUR, M. du. his difcuffion of the
'ments agreeable to thofe of Fenelon, ib.
SUN, height of in the fummer and winter
folftices of 1766, 1767. See THURY.
T.
ting to, 680.
ELESCOPES, Curious inquiries re-
THURY, M. de, his obf. on the height
of the fun, in the winter folftice of 1766,
675. See MONNJER.
on the comet of 1759, 676.
TILLET, M. his obf on the proportion
between the weights used in France and
other countries, 612.
TIMBER, diminution (cf late years) in
the ftrength thereof, 688
TOUSSANT, M. his effay on Beneficence,
confitered in conrradiftinction to bene-
volence, 674.
TREMELIA, plant, the fame with the
bairlike infect (lee BAKER) 675.
TUNIS, the coats of, inhibited by bar.
barians, 678.
TEINS, &c. of the human body, ex-
periments relating to, 692.
VOLATILISATION. See MARGGRAF.
VOLTAIRE, his curious dream, 661.
VULGAR, not competent judges of elo-
quence, nor of the fine arts, 674.
W.
MONTIGNY, M. de, his obf on the
contruction of hydrometers, 687.
Moor, Tunifian, brutal behaviour of AREUE
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