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Temperance and Intemperance

LIQUORS, with their EFFECTS in their usual Order. 70- Water. 60- Milk and Water 50 Small Beer 40--- -- Cider and Perry 30- Wine ....... 20 Porter.... 10 Strong Beer ....

TEMPERANCE.

Health, Wealth.

Serenity and Composure of Mind.

Reputation, Long Life, and Happiness.

Cheerfulness and Contentment.

Strength, Vigour, and Nourishment, when taken only at Meals, and in moderate quantities.

INTEMPERANCE.

Vices.

Diseases. 10 Punch ........

Idleness; Sickness; Punuhmone Debt: १ Puking; and Tremors of the Black Eyes 20-- Toddy & Crank, Peevishness; Hands in the Morning; Rags; 30- ( Grog, & Bran- | Quarrelling; (dy and Water, Fighting; 40 Flip and Shrub, Lying; Bitters infus-Swearing; Inflamed Eyes; Red Nose and Hunger; Face; Sore & swelled Bloatedness; Legs; Hospital, Jaundice; Pains in the Poor-house ed in Spirits, 50 Usquebaugh, Obscenity; Limbs and Hysteric Water.

Swindling; Burning in the Palms of the Jail, Hands & Soles Whipping; Gin, Aniseed, Perjury; 50- Brandy, Rum, and Whiskey, in the Morning Burglary; Ditto, during Murder; the Day and Night. ر Suicide. 5 L of the Feet; Dropsy; Epilepsy; Melancholy; Madness; Palsy; Apoplexy; Death.

The Hulks; Botany Bay, Fallows INDEX.

Abderites, or, inhabitants of Abdera, curious Benefit of clergy, origin and history of, 623 account of, 45 Abstinence, wonders of, 67 Adansonia; or, African calabash tree, 378 Adroitness, wonderful instances of, 54 Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, account of, 120 Agrigentum, in Sicily, ruins of, 540 Air, its pressure and elasticity, 867 Alarm bird, 243 Alexandria, buildings and library of, 549 Alhambra, 559 Alligators, 164 American natural history, 182 Andes, 415 Androides, 701 Anger, surprising effects of, 82 Animalcules, 357 Animal generation, curiosities respecting, 139 Animals, formation of, 142 Animals, preservation of, 144 Animals, destruction of, 150 Animal reproductions, 154 Animals and plants, winter sleep of, 808 Animals, remarkable strength of affection in, 184 Animals, surprising instances of sociality in, 185 Animals, unaccountable faculties possessed by some, 187 Animals, remarkable instances of fasting in, 189 Animal flower, 392 Anthropophagi, or men-eaters, account of, 75 Ants, curiosities of, 290 Ants, green, 311 Ants, white, or termites, 301 Ant, lion, 312 Ants, visiting, 312 Aphis, curiosities respecting, 331 Aqueducts, remarkable, 795 Ark of Noah, 582 Artificer, unfortunate, 745 Artificial figure to light a candle, 858 Asbestos, 402 Athos, mount, 423, Attraction, examples of, 865 Augsburg, curiosities of, 576 Aurora borealis, 684 Automaton, description of, 700 Babylon, 557 B Bacon flitch, custom at Dunmow Essex, 605 Balbeck, ancient ruins of, 538 Bannian tree, 374 Baptism, a curious one, 642 Baratier, John Philip, premature genius of, 125 Barometer, rules for predicting the weather by it, 892 Bastile, the destruction of, 821 Beards, remarks concerning, 31 Beaver, description of, 156 Beavers, habitations of the, 158 Beetle, the, 347 Bee, the honey, 265, Bees, wild, curiosities of, Clothier Bee, Carpenter Bee, Mason Bee, Upholsterer Bee, Leaf-cutter Bee, 277, 278, 279, 280 Bees, account of an idiot-boy and, 283 Bees, Mr. Wildman's curious exhibitions of, explained, 283 Benzine, 835 Bird of Paradise, 230 Bird, singular account of one inhabiting a vol cano in Guadalope, 246 Bird-catching fish, 196 Bird-catching, curious method of, 260 Birds, method of preserving, 893 Birds, hydraulic, 713 Birds, song of, 261 Birds' nests, 251 Bisset, Samuel, the noted animal instructor 124 Bletonism, 95 Blind persons, astonishing acquisitions made by some, 46 Blood, circulation of, 24 Blunders, book of, 761 Boa Constrictor, 217 Boat-fly, 342 Body, combustion of the, 97 Body, human, curiosities of the, 13 Bolea, Monte, 418 Books, curious account of the scarcity of, 757 Borrowdale, 458 Bottles, to uncork, 864 Boverick's curiosities, 713.

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