CONTENTS.
Abderites, or inhabitants of Abdera, curious account of, [45]
Abstinence, wonders of, [67]
Act of faith, [638]
Adansonia; or, African calabash tree, [378]
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, account of, [120]
Agrigentum, in Sicily, ruins of, [540]
Air, its pressure and elasticity, [839]
Alarm bird, [243]
Alexandria, buildings and library of, [549]
Alhambra, [559]
Alligators, [164]
American natural history, [182]
Anagrams, [450]
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]
Arc, Joan of, [927]
Ark of Noah, [582]
Artificer, unfortunate, [745]
Artificial figure to light a candle, [830]
Asbestos, [402]
Athos, mount, [423]
Attraction, examples of, [837]
Augsburg, curiosities of, [576]
Aurora borealis, [684]
Automaton, description of, [700]
B
Babylon, [557]
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, [864]
Beards, remarks concerning, [31]
Beaver, description of, [156]
Beavers, habitations of the, [158]
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]
Bells, baptism of, [639]
Benefit of clergy, origin and history of, [623]
Bird of Paradise, [230]
Bird, singular account of one inhabiting a volcano in Guadalope, [246]
Bird-catching fish, [196]
Bird-catching, curious method of, [260]
Birds, method of preserving, [865]
Birds, hydraulic, [713]
Birds, song of, [261]
Birds’ nests, [251]
Bisset, Samuel, the noted animal instructor, [124]
Bletonism, [95]
Blind clergyman of Wales, [903]
Blind persons, astonishing acquisitions made by some, [46]
Blind Jack of Knaresborough, [900]
Blood, circulation of, [24]
Blunders, book of, [761]
Boa Constrictor, [217]
Boat-fly, [342]
Body, human, curiosities of the, [13]
Bolea, Monte, [418]
Books, curious account of the scarcity of, [757]
Borrowdale, [458]
Bottles, to uncork, [836]
Boverick’s curiosities, [713]
Bowthorpe oak, [382]
Bread-fruit tree, [372]
Bread, old, curious account of, [807]
Brine, to ascertain the strength of, [839]
Brown, Simon, and his curious dedication to queen Caroline, [108]
Bunzlau curiosities, [714]
Buonaparte, principal events in the life of, [126]
Burning spring in Kentucky, [493]
Burning and hot springs, [494], [495], [496], [497]
Burning, extraordinary cures by, [792]
Burning-glasses, [717]
Bustard, the great, [243]
Butterflies, beauty and diversities of, [344]
Butterflies, to take an impression of their wings, [866]
C
Camera obscura, to make, [830]
Candiac, John Lewis, account of, [113]
Candlemas-day, [632]
Cannon, extraordinary, [807]
Cards, origin of, [767]
Carrier, or courier pigeon, [244]
Carthage, ancient grandeur of, [542]
Case, John, celebrated quack doctor, [113]
Catching a hare, curious custom respecting, [601]
Caterpillar, [219]
Caterpillar-eaters, [220]
Cave of Fingal, [452]
Cave near Mexico, [457]
Centaurs and Lapithæ, [785]
Chameleon, particulars respecting, [175]
Changeable flower, [387]
Cheese-mite, curiosities respecting, [358]
Chemical illuminations, [844]
Chick, formation of in the egg, [249]
Child, extraordinary arithmetical powers of a, [88]
Chiltern hundreds, [634]
China, great wall of, [579]
Chinese, funeral ceremonies of the, [610]
Christmas-boxes, origin of, [633]
Cinchona, or Peruvian bark, curious effects of, [390]
Clepsydra, [706]
Clock-work, extraordinary pieces of, [704]
Clouds, electrified, terrible effects of, [656]
Coal-pit, visit to one, [469]
Cocoa-nut tree, [371]
Coins of the kings of England, [814]
Cold, surprising effects of extreme, [659]
Colossus, [570]
Colours, experiments on, [867]
Colours, incapacity of distinguishing, [56]
Combustion of the human body by the immoderate use of spirits, [97]
Common house-fly, curiosities of the, [337]
Company of Stationers, singular custom annually observed by the, [766]
Conscience, instances of the power of, [84]
Cormorant, [242]
Coruscations, artificial, [849]
Cotton wool, curious particulars of a pound weight of, [391]
Countenance, human, curiosities of the, [18]
Cromwell, A. M. of Hammersmith, a rich miser, [897]
Creeds of the Jews, [775]
Crichton, the admirable, [911]
Crichup Linn, [797]
Crocodile, [163]
Crocodile, fossil, curiosity of, [165]
Cuckoo, curiosities respecting, [240]
Curfew bell, why so called, [635]
Curious historical fact, [744]
D
Dancer, Daniel, account of, [104]
Dajak, inhabitants of Borneo, curious funeral ceremonies of, [612]
Deaf, to make the, perceive sounds, [828]
Deaths, poetical, grammatical, and scientific, [73]
Death-watch, [347]
Diamond mine, on the river Tigitonhonha, in the Brazilian territory, [460]
Diamond, wonderful, [405]
Diana, temple of, at Ephesus, [554]
Dictionary, modern, [950]
Dimensions, &c. of some of the largest trees growing in England, [382]
Diseases peculiar to particular countries, [789]
Dismal swamp, [798]
Dog, remarkable, [194]
Dog, curious anecdotes of a, [195]
Dogs, sagacity of, [193]
Dreams, instances of extraordinary, [70]
Dwarfs, extraordinary, [40]
E
Eagle, the golden, [237]
Ear, curious structure of the, [22]
Earl of Pembroke, curious extracts from the will of an, [773]
Earth-eaters, [908]
Earthquakes, and their causes, [499]
Eating, singularities of different nations in, [595]
Eclipses, [676]
Eddystone rocks, [797]
Egg, to soften an, [851]
Electricity, illumination by, [793]
Electrical experiments, [841]
Elephant, account of an, [168]
Elephant, docility of the, [170]
Elwes, John, account of, [104]
English ladies turned Hottentots, [744]
Ephemeral flies, [343]
Ephesus, temple of Diana at, [554]
Escurial, [577]
Etna, [443]
Extraordinary custom, [601]
Eye, curious formation of the, [20]
F
Fact, the most extraordinary on record, [744]
Fairy rings, [667]
Falling stars, [681]
Faquirs, travelling, [940]
Fasting, extraordinary instances of, [65]
Fata Morgana, [665]
Feasts, among the ancients of various nations, [614]
Female beauty and ornaments, [596]
Fiery fountain, [844]
Fire-balls, [655]
Fire of London, [748]
Fire, perpetual, [806]
Fisher, Miss Clara, [905]
Fishes, air bladder in, [201]
Fishes, respiration in, [202]
Fishes, shower of, [203]
Flea, account of a, [325]
Flea, on the duration of the life of a, [328]
Florence statues, [579]
Fly, the common house, [337]
Fly, the Hessian, [336]
Fly, the May, [340]
Fly, the vegetable, [341]
Fly, the boat, [342]
Flying, artificial, [716]
Fountain trees, [375]
Freezing mixture, to form, [859]
Freezing, astonishing expansive force of, [661]
Friburg, curiosities of, [575]
Friendship, curious demonstrations of, [594]
Friendship, true Roman, recipe for establishing, [951]
Fright, or terror, remarkable effects of, [82]
Frog, the common, [160]
Frog-fish, [196]
Frosts, remarkable, [533]
Flower, the animal, [392]
Fruits, injuries from swallowing the stones of, [791]
Funeral ceremonies of the ancient Ethiopians, [609]
Fungi, [395]
G
Galley of Hiero, [584]
Galvanism, [689]
Gardens, floating, [580]
Gardens, hanging, [558]
Garter, origin of the order of the, [623]
Gas lights, miniature, [836]
Gauts, or Indian Appenines, [421]
Giants, curious account of, [39]
Giant’s causeway, [590]
Gipsies, [732]
Glaciers, [529]
Glass, ductility of, [720]
Glass, to cut, without a diamond, [833]
Glass, to write on, by the sun’s rays, [858]
Gluttony, instances of extraordinary, [64]
Gold, remarkable ductility and extensibility of, [721]
Graham, the celebrated Dr. [909]
Gravity, experiments respecting the, [838]
Great events from little causes, [746]
Grosbeak, the social, [234]
Grosbeak, the Bengal, [235]
Grotto in South America, [445]
Grotto del Cani, [446]
Grotto of Antiparos, [447]
Grotto of Guacharo, [450]
Growth, extraordinary instances of rapid, [37]
Guinea, explanation of all the letters on a, [768]
Gulf stream, [490]
H
Hagamore, Rev. Mr. a most singular character, [896]
Hail, surprising showers of, [518]
Hair of the head, account of, [28]
Hair, instances of the internal growth of, [30]
Hair, ancient and modern opinions respecting the, [29]
Halo, or corona, and similar appearances, [680]
Hand-fasting, [609]
Harmattan, [511]
Harrison, a singular instance of parsimony, [903]
Heat, diminished by evaporation, [839]
Hecla, [442]
Heidelberg clock, [705]
Heinecken, Christian Henry, account of, [114]
Hell, opinions respecting, [812]
Henderson, John, the Irish Crichton, [883]
Henry, John, singular character of, [107]
Herculaneum and Pompeii, [536]
Herschel’s grand telescope, [713]
Hessian fly, [339]
Hobnails, origin of the sheriff’s counting, [622]
Holland, North, curious practice in, [630]
Honour, extraordinary instances of, [80]
Horse, remarkable instances of sagacity in a, [192]
Human heart, structure of the, [24]
Humming bird, [236]
Huntingdon, William, eccentric character of, [134]
Hurricane, curious particulars respecting a, [511]
Husband long absent, returned, [741]
Hydra, or polypes, account of, [359]
I
Ice, Greenland or polar, [525]
Ice, tremendous concussions of fields of, [528]
Ice, showers of, [533]
Ignis Fatuus, [644]
Improvement of the learned, [765]
Incubus, or nightmare, [941]
Indian jugglers, [897]
Individuation, [780]
Indulgences, Romish, [636]
Ingratitude, shocking instances of, [78]
Inks, various sympathetic, [853 to 857]
Insects, metamorphoses of: the butterfly, the common fly, the grey-coated gnat, the shardhorn beetle, [345]
Insects blown from the nose, —
Integrity, striking instances of, [77]
Inverlochy castle, [574]
Island, new, starting from the sea, [491]
J
Jew’s harp, [795]
John Bull, origin of the term of, [634]
K
Killarney, the lake of, [487]
Kimos, singular nation of dwarfs, [43]
Knout, [804]
Kraken, [210]
L
Labrador stone, [402]
Lady of the Lamb, [601]
Lama, [810]
Lambert, Daniel, account of, [887]
Lamps, remarkable, [805]
Lamp, phosphoric, [844]
Lanterns, feast of, [621]
Laocoon, monument of, [556]
Leaves, to take an impression of them, [866]
Letter, curious, from Pomare, king of Otaheite, to the Missionary Society, [773]
Libraries, celebrated, [760]
Light produced under water, [850]
Lightning, extraordinary properties and effects of, [651]
Lightning, to produce artificial, [844]
Liquids, to produce changeable-coloured, [858]
Liquids, to exchange two in different bottles, [872]
Literary labour and perseverance, [756]
Lizard, imbedded in coal, [225]
Locusts, and their uses in the creation, [349]
London, compendious description of, [813]
London, intellectual improvement in, [761]
Longevity, extraordinary instances of, [96]
Louse, [328]
Love-letter, and answer, curious, [774]
Luminous insects, [319]
M
M‘Avoy, Miss Margaret, [919]
Maelstrom, [489]
Magdalen’s hermitage, [575]
Magic oracle, [845]
Magical bottle, [851]
Magical drum, [806]
Magnetism, [693]
Magnetic experiments, [848]
Magnify, to, small objects, [882]
Mahometan paradise, [811]
Maiden, [599]
Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant, found in Siberia, [170]
Man with the iron mask, [727]
Mandrake, [387]
Marmot, or the Mountain Rat of Switzerland, [167]
Marriage custom of the Japanese, [604]
Marriage ceremonies, curious, in different nations, [602]
Masons, free and accepted, [737]
Mathematical talent, curious instance of, [93]
Matrimonial ring, [608]
Matter, divisibility of, [793]
May-fly, [340]
May poles and garlands, the origin of, [629]
Memnon, palace of, [552]
Memory, remarkable instance of, [86]
Metals, different, to discover, [828]
Metals, mixed, to detect, [871]
Metcalf, John, alias Blind Jack of Knaresborough, [900]
Microscopic experiments, [859]
Migration of birds, [253]
Mills, remarkable, [799]
Mint of Segovia, [799]
Miraculous vessel, [852]
Mirage, account of, [521]
Miners, curious effects of, [833]
Mite, the cheese, curiosities respecting, [358]
Mock suns, [673]
Mocking bird of America, [233]
Mole, the common, [159]
Money, test of good or bad, [834]
Monkey, sagacity of a, [192]
Monsoons, or trade winds, [512]
Monster, [777]
Montague, Edward Wortley, [110]
Mont Blanc, in Switzerland, [427]
Moon, account of three volcanoes in the, [682]
Morland, George, account of, [114]
Moscow, great bell of, [726]
Mosquitoes, and their uses, [355]
Mourning, ancient modes of, [613]
Mountains, natural descriptions of, [406]
Mountains Written, Mountains of Inscription, or Jibbel El Mokatteb, [422]
Mount Snowden, excursion to the top of, [412]
Mud and Salt, volcanic eruptions of, in the island of Java, [467]
Murdering statue, [801]
Museum, [566]
Mushroom, [395]
Mushroom-stone, [402]
N
Names, curious, adopted in the civil war, [772]
Naphtha springs, [492]
National debt, singular calculation respecting, [816]
Natural productions, resembling artificial compositions, [804]
Natural history, curious facts in, [247]
Nautilus, [197]
Navigation, perfection of, [481]
Needles, [722]
Needle’s eye, [459]
News, origin of the word, [762]
Newspapers, origin of, [762]
New studies in old age, instances of, [763]
New year’s gifts, origin of, [633]
Niagara, and its falls, [485]
Nicholas Pesce, [117]
Nitre caves of Missouri, [457]
Nokes, Edward, a miser, [888]
Numbers, remarkable instance of skill in, [86]
Numbers, curious arrangements of, [868], [871]
Nuns, particulars respecting, [811]
Nuovo, Monte, [419]
O
Oak-tree, remarkable account of, [380]
Oakham, custom at, [630]
Obelisk, remarkable, near Forres, in Scotland, [573]
Okey Hole, [458]
Orang-Outang, [178]
Origin of ‘That’s a Bull,’ [635]
Origin of the old adage respecting St. Swithin, and rainy weather, [635]
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, [166]
Ostrich, curiosities of the, [231]
Owl, adventure of an, [247]
P
Pausilippo, [419]
Peacock, the common, [226]
Peak in Derbyshire, description of, [409]
Peeping Tom of Coventry, [740]
Peg, to make a, to fit three differently shaped holes, [872]
Pelican, the great, [229]
Penance, curious account of a, [643]
Performances of a female, blind almost from her infancy, [53]
Persons born defective in their limbs, wonderful instances of adroitness of, [54]
Peruke, [783]
Peru, mines of, [465]
Pesce, Nicholas, extraordinary character of, [117]
Pharos of Alexandria, [549]
Phosphoric fire, sheet of, [669]
Phosphorus, [670]
Pichinca, [415]
Pico, [422]
Pigeon, wild, its multiplying power, [245]
Pigeon, carrier, or courier, [244]
Pin-making, [721]
Pitch-wells, [468]
Plague, dreadful instances of the, in Europe, [747]
Plant, curious, [386]
Plants, curious dissemination of, [366]
Plants upon the earth, prodigious number of, [367]
Plough-Monday, origin of, [632]
Poison-eater, remarkable account of, [94]
Pompey’s pillar, [547]
Pope Joan, [931]
Portland vase, [800]
Praxiteles’ Venus, [712]
Praying machines of Kalmuck, [642]
Price, Charles, the renowned swindler, [889]
Prince Rupert’s drops, [853]
Prolificness, extraordinary instances of, [37]
Psalmanazar, George, noted impostor, [112]
Pulpit, curious, [801]
Pyramids of Egypt, [544]
Q
Quaint lines, [772]
Queen Charlotte, curious address to, [769]
Queen, a blacksmith’s wife become a, [749]
Queen Elizabeth’s dinner, curious account of the ceremonies at, [749]
Queen Elizabeth, quaint lines on, [772]
R
Recreations, amusing, in optics, &c. [873 to 882]
Recreations, amusing, with numbers, [820 to 827]
Religion, celebrated speech on, [944]
Reproduction, [781]
Repulsion, examples of, [837]
Respiration, interesting facts concerning, [26]
Revivified rose, [858]
Rhinoceros, [162]
Rings, on the origin of, [606]
Rosin bubbles, [851]
Royal progenitors, [744]
Ruin at Siwa in Egypt, [534]
S
Salutation, various modes of, [598]
Sand-floods, account of, [521]
Savage, Richard, extraordinary character of, [128]
Scaliot’s lock, [712]
Scarron, Paul, account of, [119]
Schurrman, Anna Maria, [123]
Scorpion, [213]
Sea, curiosities of the, [471]
Sea, on the saltness of, [476]
Sea, to measure the depth of the, [829]
Sea serpent, American, [218]
Seal, common account of, [180]
Seal, ursine, [181]
Seeds, germination of, [365]
Sensibility of plants, [368]
Sensitive plant, [369]
Seraglio, [564]
Serpents, fascinating power of, [219]
Sexes, difference between the, [34]
Sexes at birth, comparative number of the, [36]
Shark, [198]
Sheep, extraordinary adventures of one, [190]
Shelton oak, description of, [382]
Ship worm, [224]
Ship at sea, to find the burden of a, [829]
Shoes, curiosities respecting, [724]
Shoe-makers, literary, [764]
Shower of gossamers, curious phenomenon of a, [523]
Shrovetide, [630]
Silk-mill at Derby, [800]
Silk stockings, electricity of, [842]
Silkworm, [220]
Singular curiosity, [405]
Skiddaw, [414]
Sleep-walker, [69]
Sleeping woman of Dunninald, [70]
Smeaton, John, [113]
Sneezing, curious observations on, [33]
Snow grotto, [451]
Solfatara, the lake of, [488]
Sound, experiments on, [840]
Spectacle of a sea-fight at Rome, [711]
Spectacles, a substitute for, [807]
Spectre of the Broken, [420]
Spider, curiosities of the, [314]
Spider, tamed, [316]
Spider, ingenuity of a, [316]
Spider, curious anecdote of a, [318]
Spirits of wine, to ascertain the strength of, [839]
Spontaneous inflammations, [786]
Sports, book of, [766]
’Squire, old English, [925]
Stalk, animated, [392]
Star, falling or shooting, [401]
Stephenson, the eccentric, [895]
Steel, to melt, [830]
Stick, to break a, on two wine-glasses, [871]
Stone, the meteoric, [401]
Stone, the Labrador, [402]
Stone, the changeable, [404]
Stone-eater, remarkable account of, [94]
Stonehenge, [592]
Storks, [229]
Storm, singular effects of a, [519]
Strasburg clock, [705]
Sugar, antiquity of, [390]
Sulphur mountains, [424]
Sun, diminution of the, [673]
Sun, spots in the, [671]—to shew ditto, [852]
Surgical operation, extraordinary, [791]
Swine’s concert, [750]
Sword-swallowing, [62]
Sympathetic inks, [853 to 857]
T
Tallow-tree, [378]
Tantalus’ cup, [852]
Tape-worm, [222]
Tea, Chinese method of preparing, [388]
Telegraph, [708]
Temple of Tentira, in Egypt, [550]
Tenures, curious, [628]
Thermometrical experiments, [863]
Thermometer, moral and physical, [817]
Thread burnt, not broken, [844]
Thunder powder, [836]
Thunder rod, [654]
Tides, [479]
Titles of books, [755]
Toad, common, description of, [161]
Topham, Thomas, character of, [115]
Tornado, description of a, [510]
Torpedo, [200]
Tortoise, the common, [176]
Tree of Diana, [852]
Trees, account of a country, in which the inhabitants reside in, [45]
U
Unbeliever’s creed, [776]
Unfortunate artificer, [745]
Unicorn, [179]
Upas, or poison tree, [383]
V
Valentine’s-day, origin of, [632]
Van Butchell, Mrs. preservation of her corpse, [902]
Vegetable kingdom, curiosities in the, [363]
Vegetables, number of known, [367]
Vegetable fly, [341]
Velocity of the wind, [517]
Ventriloquism, [58]
Vesuvius, [434], [947]
Vicar of Bray, [748]
Voltaic pile, to make a cheap, [847]
Vulture, Egyptian, [228]
Vulture, secretary, [228]
W
Wasp, curiosities respecting the, [285]
Watch, the mysterious, [835]
Watches, invention of, [707]
Water, to boil without heat, [835]
Water, to weigh, [834]
Water, to retain, in an inverted glass, [835]
Waterspout, [663]
Waves stilled by oil, [480]
Weaving engine, [712]
Whale, great northern, or Greenland, [204]
Whale fishery, [208]
Whig and Tory, explanation of the terms, [776]
Whirlpool near Sudero, [489]
Whirlwinds of Egypt, [509]
Whispering places, and extraordinary echoes, [802]
Whitehead’s ship, [712]
Whittington, Sir Richard, [932]
Wild man, account of a, [76]
Wind, velocity of, [517]
Winds, remarkable, in Egypt, [507]
Wine cellar, curious, [799]
Winter in Russia, [524]
Wolby, Henry, extraordinary character of, [105]
Women with beards, curious account of, [32]
Wooden eagle, and iron fly, [711]
Writing, origin of the materials of, [751]
Writing, minute, [753]
X
Xerxes’ bridge of boats over the Hellespont, [586]
Z
Zeuxis, celebrated painter, [116].