Semleri Historia ecclesiast. 494
Seneca de Beneficiis, 294
Senecæ Epistolæ, 191. 214

Tragœdiæ, 145. 202

Senkenberg's Selecta juris et historia-
rum, 452

Serapion de Simplicibus, 368
Servius ad Æneid. 148

Seymour's Survey of London, 316
Shaws Reisen, 381
Sidonius Apollinaris, 192

Simon Januensis Clavis sanationis, 334
Sirmond's Concil. Antiq. Galliæ, 229
Smith's Memoirs of wool, 302
Solinus, 202

Thingmala Bölkar, 342

Thoroton's Antiquities of Notting-
hamshire, 317
Thuanus, 426

Sommersberg, Silesiac. rerum Scrip- Thunberg Reise, 243

Thurneisser, Magna alchemia, 382
Tollii Epist. itinerariæ, 2
Torfæi Hist. Norvegiæ, 209
Transactions of the Society for the en-
couragement of arts, 45. 288
Trebellius Pollio, 205. 210
Tresenreuter Abhandl. von hopfen,

324.332

Treueri, Anastasis veteris Germani
Germanæque feminæ, 199

Treueri Dissertat. Academicæ, 200
Triers Wapen-kunst, 221

Trotz Jus agrarium fœderati Belgii,

449

de Jurisdictione Græcorum, Turnebi Adversaria, 107. 397

Hypomneses de Gallica lin-

Stetten von, Kunstgeschichte der stadt
Augsburg. 87

Stobæus, 433

Storr Alpenreise, 603

Stowe's Chronicle of England, 298
Strabo, 9. 25. 78. 148. 190. 200.202.
367. 435. 505

Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 152

Sturmii, Physica electiva, 150

Sturms Ritterplatzes, 246

U

Uffenbach Reisen, 174. 316. 412. 496
Ughelli Italia sacra, 159

Uhle's Sylloge nova epist. varii argu-
menti, 323

V

Valentine, Basilius, 65. 112

Sueciæ regni Leges provinciales a Ca- Valeriani Hieroglyphica, 160

rolo IX publicatæ, 342

Suetonius, 15.184. 397. 482
Suidas, 184. 291. 385. 433. 481
Swedenborg de Ferro, 242

Valerius Flaccus, 291

Maximus, 183. 482
Vancouver's Voyage, 292

Varchi, Storia Fiorentina, 402

Varietés Historiques, physiques, et lit-Weber Nutzliche wahrheiten für fa-

de re rustica, 153. 182. 184. Wedelii Centuria exercitationum me-

Wagenseil de civitate Noribergensi, 90 Zanon dell' Agricoltura, dell arti e del

INDEX

TO THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS MENTIONED IN THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

A.

Abzug, and Abstrich, meaning of the words, 13.

Acies, name given to steel, 240.

Adamas at first denoted steel, 237.

Eolus, the first person who made navigators acquainted
with the winds, 147.

Air-chamber, when first applied to the fire-engine, 91.

Alabandicus, meaning of the word, 60.

Anaxurides of the Persians were breeches, 199.

Androgeos, temple of, at Rome, 154.

Andronicus Cyrrhestes, tower built by him at Athens, 151.
Anemodulium, or Anemoderium, at Constantinople, 155.

Ants which dug up gold, fable of the ancients concerning
them explained, 251.

Argentarium, a mixture of tin and lead, 28.

Argonautic expedition, supposed by Vossius to have been a
commercial expedition, like the voyages of the English to
Nootka Sound, 200.

Army surgeons, when established, 490-496.
Aurichalcum, or Corinthian brass, 3.

Aurologium, 151.

B.

Babylonian leather, 206.

Bar iron, how converted into steel, 247.

Baudruche, meaning of, 171.

Bedil, mentioned by Moses, supposed to be tin, 4. Consi-
dered by the Greek translators to be what they called
Cassiteros, 6.

Beaver, named the Pontic dog, 223.

Beer mixed with bitter things in Egypt, 385.
Black cloth, how spoilt in dyeing, 141.

Black lead, 345. Names by which it is known, 346. An-
cient manuscripts ruled with lead, 347. Plumbago, by
whom first mentioned, 349. Account of it by Cæsalpinus
and Imperati, 350. Mentioned by B. Ambrosius under
the name of lapis plumbarius, 352. Its use for crucibles,
353. Black lead pits in Cumberland, 353. In commerce
called potloth, 355. The first pencils used for drawing,
356. Black and red chalk, 358.

Blanque, a name given to lotteries, 403.
Bleystift, meaning of, 346.

Blitum of the ancients, 264.

Blue carmine, how made, 111.

Bohemian tin works, antiquity of, 38.

Bologna stone, 418. Description of it, 419-422. How
rendered capable of shining in the dark, 422. Discovery
of this phenomenon, by whom made, 423. Preparation of
the stone concealed by the Italian chemists, 424; taught
by Poterius to a French chemist, 425. Luminous stone
from India mentioned by De Thou, 426.

Borage sown since the 14th century, 261; not known to the
ancients, ibid.

Bos, a term formerly given to every large animal, 212.
Boutefeux, incendiaries who occasioned great devastation in
France in the 14th century, 90.

Brassica of the ancients belonged to the cabbage genus, 264.
Brassica oloracea, 268.

gongylodes, 272.

napobrassica, ibid.

napus, 273.

rapa, 278.

Braunstein, German name of manganese, 67.

Breeches, or hose, part of the Gothic costume, 198; adopted
by the Romans, ibid.

Brephotrophium, meaning of, 441.

Broccoli, ancients acquainted with, 266.

Bronze, many articles made of it, 14; less liable to rust than
pure copper, ibid.

Bulbous roots, favourite dishes of the Greeks and the Ro-
mans, 259.

Byzantium, no fur dresses used at the court of, 233.

C.

Callinicus, inventor of the Greek fire, 84.

Carota, carrots mentioned by Apicius, 280; known to Di-
oscorides and Theophrastus, 279.

Casciorolus, Vincentius, discovered the luminous property of
the Bologna stone, 423.

Cassiterides islands, situation of, 34.

Cassiteron, metal so called by the Greeks, what it was, 19.
This word supposed to be derived from the Phoenician or
Chaldaic, 25.

Castorinati, meaning of, 223.

Cattina pelles, cats' skins, 222.

Cavallina, sowing machine proposed by him, 50.
Cauliflower, brought from the Levant to Italy, 266.

Cebalus, or Chebalus, 219.

Celtiberians, in what manner they prepared steel, 242.
Chalybs, name given to steel from the Chalybes, a people on
the Pontus Euxinus, 237.

Chanut, Pierre, some account of him, 71.

Charles the Great supposed to have given names to the
winds, 148.

Child-murder, reflections on, 428.

Children, advantage of them to beggars, 430.

Chinese, in what manner they prepare hops, 345.

Ciragillina pelles, rabbit-skins, 222.

Clergy called themselves the cocks of the Almighty, 160.
Color Indicus, meaning of, 129.

Columna lactaria at Rome, children exposed at, 434.
Comnenus, John, emperor, wounded with a poisoned arrow,
174.

Congiaria of the Romans explained, 396.

Constantine, his humane decrees in regard to children, 439.
Constantinople had the first hospital for invalids, 487.
Cork, additional particulars respecting, 504.

Cornish man first discovered tin in Germany, 39.

Cossacks, substitute used by them for cork, 507.

Crystal, rock, why superior when polished to the best crystal

glass of the glass-houses, 55.

Ctesibius, the inventor of pumps, 75.

Cuttle-fish, gives a black, 116.

Cyanos, which occurs in Homer, meaning of, 26.
Cyanos, in Homer, not tin but mountain green, ibid.

Cymæ, 266.

Cynosarges, a place at Athens where children were exposed,
433.

D.

Dacra, or dacrum pellium, 211.