_Wigton_, in Cumberland, effects of a storm there, p. 194. _Winthrop_, Mr. Professor, concerning an earthquake felt in New England, and the neighbouring parts of America, Nov. 18, 1755, p. 1. _Windows_, dissertation on the antiquity of glass in them, p. 601. _Wright_, Edward, M.D. his account of an experiment, whereby it appears that salt of steel does not enter the lacteals, p. 594. _Wood-ashes_, their use in distilling fresh water from sea-water, p. 635. _Wooller_, Mr. his description of the fossil skeleton of an animal found in the alum rock near Whitby, p. 786. _Worms_, account of a boy cured of convulsive fits by the discharge of some, p. 518. Other cases of the like nature, p. 839. ---- that form sponges, new observations on them, p. 590. Z _Zetland_, island of, account of an extraordinary shower of black dust which fell there, Oct. 20, 1755, p. 297. ERRATA. _P._ 769. _l._ 3. _read_ the order of _P._ 791. _l._ 6. _for_ Oxon, _with a comma, read_ Oxon. _with a full-point_. _P._ 792. _l._ 5. _of the quotations, for_ Froel. _read_ Frœl. _In the Contents to Part_ I. _of this Vol. Page_ 5. _l._ 21. _for_ 115. _read_ 117. FOOTNOTES: [1] Manna lies about 50 miles to the southward of Marlborough. [2] The island of Sumatra is between 7 and 800 miles long from north to south. [3] Cumberland-house is a new well-built house for the governor of the place. [4] _N. B. Both these are contiguous to the fort._ [5] Laye house or factory is about 30 miles to the northward of Marlborough, and Manna house or factory fifty miles to the southward. [6] The sugar-plantation is five or six miles from Marlborough. [7] The _qualloe_ is the country word for a river’s mouth. [8] Poblo Point lies about three leagues to the southward of Marlborough. [9] _Doosoons_ are villages. [10] Letter from William Veale, Esq; [11] Letter from John Trehawk, Esq; [12] A timber support of the deads. [13] Loose rubbish and broken stones of the mine. [14] Mr. J. Nantcarrow. [15] Trifolium quoque inhorrescere et folia contra tempestatem subrigere certum est. Hist. Nat. lib. xviii. cap. 35. [16] Flor. Lappon. p. 222. [17] Prosp. Alpin. de plantis Ægypti, cap. 10. [18] It is not improbable, that a considerable portion of whiting might be used instead of pure white lead, which is frequently done: and this supposition is favoured by the mixture’s not proving fatal to the boy, as such a quantity of white lead in all probability would. [19] What Lhwyd calls _ostreum minus falcatum_, Nº. 451. [20] Memoires de l’Acad. des Sciences, anno 1748. p. 326. [21] Ibid. p. 338. [22] Ibid. p. 337. [23] See my Essay on the contagious Distemper, p. 70. [24] Pag. 143 and 338. [25] Essay on the Plague. [26] See Logarith. Canon. deser. _Edinb._ 1614. p. 48. [27] _Senex_ drew several of that form. [28] See the Preface to the small Berlin Atlas.