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To be had at the Bookstore of Patrick Byrne, Philadelphia.

THE OPINION delivered by Judge Cooper in the Court of Errors
and Appeals, on the Effect of Sentences in Foreign Courts of Vice-
Admiralty.

The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Professor of
Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania. With Notes and Refe-

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General classification of scientific knowledge.

Reasons for attempting a sketch of the history of chemistry.

Plan of the Lecture.

Chemistry noticed or alluded to in the Scripture.

Brass and Iron. Wine. Oil. Resins. Pitch. Bitumen. Engraving. Dyeing.
Gilding. Plating. Butter. Milk. Bread. Corn Mills. Soap. Nitre. Beer.
Egyptian chemistry: viz. Glass. Dyeing and Painting. Beer. Vinegar. Me-
dicines. Perfumes. Oil Linen. Poultry. Salt. Natron. Paper. Brass and
Gold. Causes of the flourishing state of Egypt.

Grecian Chemistry.

Roman Chemistry.

Hindoo Chemistry.

Chinese Chemistry.

Chemistry of what are called the dark ages.

State of Chemistry in the time of Boyle, Mayow, Hooke, and Hales.
Stahl's theory of Phlogiston.

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1. Hieroglyphic and alphabetic writing. Boustrophedon, Kionedon. Lord
Elgin's collection.

2. Hindoo astronomy and chronology.

3. Effect of chemical and mechanical science in augmenting the disposable
force of a country, instanced in Great Britain.
Turnpike roads and Rail roads.

4. Reasons for adopting the Septuagint version.
5. Tubal Cain, Vulcan? Scriptural Metallurgy.
6. Wine as noticed in Scripture.

7. Embalming. Mummies.

8. Oil and Resins, among the Egyptians and Jews.

9. Pitch, Tar and Bitumen noticed in the Old Testament.
10. Rosin. Burgundy Pitch.

11. Gems. Engraving among the Jews.

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21. Ancient Knowledge of Glass. Nitre or Natron. Artificial Gems and co-
loured Glasses. Drinking Glasses. Burning Glasses. Window Glass.
Lapis Specularis. Hothouses. Sudaria, or steam baths.

22. Egyptians and Hindoos compared.

23. Beer.

24. Oil.

25. Pitch and Tar.

26. Egyptian Linen manufactory. Transparent drapery.

27. Common Salt.

28. Natron. Sal Ammoniac. Alum.

29. Ancient Method of separating Gold from the Ore.
30. Serpents of Gold.

31. Papyrus. Books of the ancients.

32. Aristotle.

33. The shield of Achilles.

34. Nepenthe. Kaif.

35. Sugar. Saccharin.

36. Greek engraving.

37. Filtration. Calcination. Distillation.

38. Greek Fire.

39. Dyeing in Homer's time.

40. The Tea urn borrowed from the Romans.

41. Substances used in medicine. Pottery. Portland Vase. Mosaic Work.
42. Gunpowder, see note 45.

43. The Chinese of Hindoo origin.

44. The Egyptians, blacks.

45. Gunpowder known to the ancients? to the Hindoos and Chinese.
46. Scholastic Metaphysics.

47. State of the Iron Founderies in Great Britain in 1806.

48. French acknowledgment of Dr. Priestley's discovery of Oxygen.
Remarks on Mineralogical Nomenclature and Classification.
Werner's arrangement of Minerals.

Hauy's arrangement of Minerals.

Suggestions of the author.

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