Webster, Dr. (of Harvard College, U.S.), account of the island named
Sabrina. See note by Translator, 242.
Winds, 315-321; monsoons, 316, 317; trade winds, 32-, 321; law of rotation, importance of its knowledge, 315-317.
Wine on the temperature required for its cultivation, 324; thermic table of mean annual heat, 325.
Wolleston on the limitation of the atmosphere, 302.
Wrangel, Admiral, on the brilliancy of the Aurora Borealis, coincident with the fall of shooting stars, 126, 127; observations of the Aurora, 197, 200; wood hills of the Siberian Polar Sea, 281.
Xenophanes of Colophon, described comets as wandering light clouds, 100; marine fossils found in marble quarries, 263.
Young, Thomas, earliest observer of the influence different kinds of rocks exercise on the vibrations of the pendulum, 168.
Yul-sung, described by Chinese writers as "the realm of pleasure," 332.
Zimmerman, Carl, hypsometrical remarks on the elevation of the Himalayas, 32.
Zodiacal light, conjectures on, 86-92; general account of, 137-144; beautiful appearance, 137, 138; first described in Childrey's Britannia Baconica, 138; probable causes, 141; intensity in tropical climates, 142.