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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3 [of 3] · Benjamin Franklin

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_Nantucket_ whalers best acquainted with the gulph-stream, ii. 198. _National_ wealth, data for reasoning on, ii. 408. three ways of acquiring, 410. _Navigation_, difference of, in shoal and deep water, ii. 158. observations on, 195, 196. from Newfoundland to New York, 197. inland, in America, iii. 118. _Needle_ of a compass, its polarity reversed by lightning, i. 248, 325. of wood, circular motion of, by electricity, 332, 351. _Needles_, magnetised by electricity, i. 148. and pins, melted by electricity, 249. _Negatively_ electrised bodies repel each other, i. 294. _Negroes_ bear heat better, and cold worse, than whites, ii. 86. _Newbury_, effects of a stroke of lightning there, i. 310. _New-England_, former flourishing state of, from the issue of paper money, iii. 145. circumstances which rendered the restriction of paper money there not injurious, 148. abolition of paper currency there, 263. _Newfoundland_ fisheries, more valuable than the mines of Peru, iii. 452. _Newspaper_, one sufficient for all America, in 1721, i. 23. instance of one set up by Franklin at Philadelphia, 86. _New-York_, effects of lightning there, i. 326. former flourishing state of, from the issue of paper-money, iii. 146. sentiments of the colonists on the act for abolishing the legislature of, 232. obtained in exchange for Surinam, 349. _Nollet_, Abbé, Franklin's theory of electricity opposed by, i. 113. remarks on his letters, 430. _Non-conductors_ of electricity, i. 378. _Non-electric_, its property in receiving or giving electrical fire, i. 193. _North-east_ storms in America, account of, ii. 68. _Nurses_, office at Paris for examining the health of, iii. 549*.

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