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Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part II. For the year 1758.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world. — John Shaqi

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Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part II. For the year 1758.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.

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                             PHILOSOPHICAL
                             TRANSACTIONS,
                              GIVING SOME
                                ACCOUNT
                                OF THE
             Present Undertakings, Studies, _and_ Labours,
                                OF THE
                              INGENIOUS,
                                IN MANY
                  Considerable Parts of the WORLD.


                  VOL. L. +PART II.+ For the Year 1758.

                               _LONDON_:

               Printed for +L. DAVIS+ and +C. REYMERS+,
                   Printers to the +ROYAL SOCIETY+,
               against _Gray’s-Inn Gate_, in _Holbourn_.

                              M.DCC.LIX.




                                 THE
                               CONTENTS
                                  TO
                          PART II. VOLUME L.


  LIX. _AN Account of the Effects of Electricity in paralytic Cases.
  In a Letter to_ John Pringle, _M. D. F.R.S. from_ Benjamin Franklin,
  _Esq; F.R.S._                                                  p. 481.

  LX. _Observations on the late Comet in_ September _and_ October
  _1757; made at the_ Hague _by Mr._ D. Klinkenberg: _In a Letter to
  the Rev._ James Bradley, _D. D. Astronomer Royal, and F.R.S. and
  Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at_ Paris. _Translated from
  the_ Low Dutch.                                                p. 483.

  LXI. _Remarks on the different Temperature of the Air at_ Edystone,
  _from that observed at_ Plymouth, _between the 7th and 14th of_ July
  _1757. By Mr._ John Smeaton, _F.R.S._                          p. 488.

  LXII. _An Account of the Earthquake felt in the Island of_ Sumatra,
  _in the_ East Indies, _in_ November _and_ December _1756. In a
  Letter from Mr._ Perry _to the Rev. Dr._ Stukeley, _dated at_ Fort
  Marlborough, _in the Island of_ Sumatra, Feb. _20. 1757. Communicated
  by the Rev._ Wm. Stukeley, _M. D. F.R.S._                      p. 491.

  LXIII. _Concerning the Fall of Water under Bridges. By Mr._ J.
  Robertson, _F.R.S._                                            p. 492.

  LXIV. _An Account of the Earthquake in the West Parts of_ Cornwall,
  July _15th 1757. By the Rev._ William Borlase, _M. A. F.R.S.
  Communicated by the Rev._ Charles Lyttelton, _LL. D. Dean of_ Exeter,
  _F.R.S._                                                       p. 499.

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