A Catechism of Familiar Things; / Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. / With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.

by Anonymous

• Ice, [15]
• Idria, quicksilver mines of, [97]
• India rubber, [107]
  
  • or Chinese ink, [76]
    
• Indigo, [138]
• Ink, [74]
  
  • used by the ancients, [75]
    
• Inlaying, [132]
• Insect, coral, [109]-[111]
• Ionians, [60]
• Iron, [82]
• Isinglass, [132]
• Islands, Volcanic, [155]
• Ivory, [135]

• Jaca tree, [87]
• Japanese, [181]
• Jetties of the Mississippi, [218]
• Jupiter, [148]

• Kaleidoscope, [210]
• Kiln, [73]

• Lace, [41]
• Lapis calaminaris, [84]
• Laudanum, [91]
• Laws, How made, [148]
• Lead, [121]
  
  • black, [122]
    
• Leather, [72]
• Legislative Powers, [147]
• Lemon, [62]
• Lenses, [95]
• Leo the Tenth, [184]
• Lesseps, Ferd. de, [217]
• Levant, [75]
• Libanus, Mount, [90]
• Licorice, [89]
• Light, [207]
  
  • Drummond, [207]
    
  • Electric, [208], [211]
    
  • Lime, [207]
    
  • Magnesium, [208]
    
• Lightning, [17]
  
  • Rod, [215]
• Lime, a fruit, [63]
• Lime, an earth, [73], [112]
  
  • quick, [150]
    
• Linen, [32]
• Liquids, [197], [198]
• Lithography, [131]
• Loadstone, [95]
• Logwood, [139]
• Lombards, [170]
• Lucca, [64]
• Lucullus, [35]
• Lungs, [89]
• Lyre, [178]

• McCormick, Cyrus H., [218]
• Mace, [51]
• Magic, [99]
• Mahogany, [107]
• Malt, [137]
• Maltese orange, [62]
• Mangoes, [85]
• Manioc plant, [134]
• Manna, [89], [90]
• Marble, [116]
  
  • Parian, [117]
    
• Mariners' compass, [95]
• Marine salt, [78]
• Marl, [101]
• Mathematics, [101]
• Mead, [136]
• Mechanics, [102]
• Mediterranean, [171]
• Megaphone, [206]
• Melons, [67]
• Mercury, [97]
  
  • the god, [178]
    
• Metals, primitive, [83]
• Metallurgy, [123]
• Microphone, [205]
• Microscope, [102]
• Milan, [40]
• Millet, [50]
• Mineral oil, [65]
  
  • tar, [140]
    
• Mines, [84]
  
  • coal, [81]
    
• Mint, [166]
• Mirrors, [54], [55]
• Mohair, [46]
• Mahomed, [72]
• Money, [163]
• Morphia, [91]
• Mortar, [148]
• Morse, S.F.B., [213]
• Mosque, [72]
• Mother-of-pearl, [132]
• Mt. Cenis Tunnel, [216]
• Muscles, [21]
• Music, vocal, [176]
• Musical instruments, [174]
  
  • boxes, [179]
    
• Musk, [141]
• Myrrh, [141]

• Nantes, Edict of, [45]
• Natron, [105]
• Nature, kingdom of, [197]
• Navigation, [166]-[174]
• Nabuchodonosor, [146]
• Needles, [57]
• Nero, [185]
• New South Wales, [31]
• Newton, Sir Isaac, [189]
• Nicotine, [92]
• Nitre, [100]
• Nitrogen, [113]
• Northern Lights, [22]
• Nutmegs, [50]

• Oats, [24]
• Obelisk, [158]
• Oils, [65]
• Oil, olive, [64]
• Oil, castor, [66]
  
  • mineral, [65]
    
• Olives, [63], [64]
• Olive branch, the emblem of Plenty, [64]
• Opium, [91]
• Orange, [61]
• Ore, [83]
• Organ, barrel, [179]
• Oxide, [83]
• Oxygen, [113]

• Painters, celebrated, [184]
• Painting, art of, [180]
• Palm, [68], [69]
• Palma Christi, [66], [67]
• Pantheon, [146]
• Paper, invention of, [57]
  
  • mill, [58]
    
  • linen, [58]
    
• Papyrus, [58]
• Parchment, [59]
• Pearls, [131]
• Pearl oyster, [131]
  
  • barley, [24]
    
• Pendulum, [98]
• Pepper, [52]
  
  • cayenne, [53]
    
• Pericles, [159]
• Perry, [136]
• Petroleum, [65]
• Phenicia, [54]
• Philosopher's stone, [194], [195]
• Phonograph, [205]
• Phosphorus, [125]
• Photography, [209]
• Pins, [57]
• Pimento, [51]
• Pisa, [172]
• Pitch, [140]
• Platina, [123]
• Pliny, [54], [182]
• Plumbago, [122]
• Poetry, [185]-[187]
• Poets, celebrated, [186]
• Polypus, [108]
• Pompeii, [154]
• Porcelain, [56]
• Potash, [53]
• Potatoes, [24]
• Primitive Earths, [153]
• Printing, [59]
• Prism, [208]
• Protestant, [58]
• Ptolemies, [189]
• Pyramid, [158]
• Pythagoras, [188]

• Quicksilver, [97]

• Rabbins, [55]
• Rain, [16]
• Rainbow, [208]
• Raisins, [47]
• Raleigh, Sir Walter, [92]
• Raphael, [183], [184]
• Refugee, [58]
• Republic, [65]
• Resin, gum, [93]
• Rhubarb, [94]
• Rice, [48]
• Rock or fossil salt, [78]
  
  • calcareous, [150]
    
  • transition, [151]
    
• Roebling, John A., [217]
• Rubies, [128]
• Rum, [137]
• Rye, [24]