END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
LONDON:
Printed by William Clowes,
Stamford-street.
I N D E X to Volume I.
The Numerals refer to the Volumes.
Abib, Hebrew month of, ii. 4
Abstraction, iii. 155
Adjutant bird, iii. 30
Agriculture, i. [85], [98]
Albacore, i. [7]
Albatross, i. [6]
Ancient Manuscripts, iii. 182
Anglesea druids, iii. 227
Antiparos grotto, iii. 42
Antique remains, i. [119], [140]
Ants, ii. 65, 289
Apennines, i. [199]
Aphis, purveyor to the ant, ii. 245, 290
Aqueduct near Llangollen, iii. 214
Arbutus, native country of, ii. 262
Areca palm, method of climbing, i. [289]
Ariel, ii. 30
Arithmetic, i. [24], [80], [203], [307]
Arno, vale of, i. [200]
Atonement, ii. 270, 276
Auvergne, i. [208]
Australian forests, i. [155]
Baal-worship, ii. 216—iii. 229
Babylon, i. [100]
Balaam and Balak, ii. 214, 229, 243
Baltimore bird, i. [143]
Bamboo, i. [243]
Bangor, iii. 214
Barbadoes flower fence, ii. 164
Bark, i. [152]
Basket-maker, i. [57], [73]
Baya, or Bengal grossbeak, i. [78]
Beads of the Haram, ii. 211
Bear, polar, or white, ii. 89
Bedahs of Ceylon, ii. 23
Bees, i. [287]—ii. 204, 253
Bel, Belus, Baal, Bali, Pali, i. [263]—ii. 47, 218—iii. 229
Bengal grossbeak, i. [78]
Betel-nut palm, i. [289]
Bettws bridge, iii. 217
Bible, difficult passages in, i. [168], [191], [295]—ii. 16—iii. 58
... integrity of the text, iii. 39
Bird-catchers of St. Kilda, i. [159]
Bonito, i. [7]
Boobies, i. [13]
Borrowing from the Egyptians, ii. 17
Brazil, i. [46], [65], [152]
Breakfast things, where from, ii. 207
Breda, mineral waters, i. [162]
Brunel’s tunnel imitated from the Teredo, ii. 254
Buds, ii. 182, 237—iii. 1
Budding, iii. 106
Butterflies, emigration of, iii. 147
Cabbage family, all from one species, ii. 239
Cairn, iii. 229
Canada Letters, ii. 226, 230, 282—iii. 172
Catechumens and Fideles, i. [91]
Caliban, ii. 31
Camels of Italy, i. [201]
Canova, i. [270]
Caoutchouc, iii. 167
Capping verses, ii. 44
Caterpillars, cotton and silk cocoons, iii. 193
... veil woven by, i. [284]
Cat, sagacity of, iii. 124
Celts and Elf-bolts, i. [141]—iii. 189
Ceremonial worship, ii. 132
Ceylon buffaloes, i. [293]
Ceylonese story, ii. 22
Chibouque, or Turkish pipe, ii. 18
Children’s prayers, i. [92]
Christian dispensation, iii. 176
... hope, iii. 197
Christianity, characteristics of, i. [71]
Christmas customs, ii. 46
Cloth manufactory, iii. 81
Coal, iii. 115, 140
... spontaneous combustion of, iii. 175
Coal-money, iii. 190
Coffin, Mount, on Colombia river, iii. 112
Commandments, or “The Ten Words”, ii. 122
Commerce, ii. 209
Comparative anatomy, iii. 96
Corals, ii. 61
Cork-tree, i. [182]
Cormorants trained to catch fish, ii. 15
Cottages, English and Brazilian, i. [44]
Cows, i. [43]
Cricket, torpid occasionally, ii. 91
... mole, iii. 61
Crows, i. [266]
Crystals, ii. 85
Cushites, or shepherd-kings, i. [262]
Cypress, deciduous, i. [231]
Dairy, i. [138]—iii. 89
Date-palm, i. [189], [198]
Davy, the musician, ii. 2
Deane forest, i. [45], [56]—iii. 115
Decalogue, ii. 122
Delta formed by alluvial deposit, iii. 26
Deluge, ii. 241—iii. 14
Deuteronomy, iii. 2
Dew, i. [77]—iii. 207
Dispensations, Christian, iii. 176
... Levitical, iii. 150
... Patriarchal, iii. 132
Dolomieu, ii. 12
Dolphin, i. [9]
Dongola, i. [274]
Dormouse, ii. 89, 129, 181
Dress, neatness of, i. [122]
Druids, i. [119]—ii. 47—-iii. 225
Ducks of Asia Minor, ii. 11
Early rising, i. [95]
Easter, ii. 276
Egyptian plagues, i. [308]
Elephant, ii. 119
... fossil, iii. 71
Elf-bolts and Celts, i. [141]—iii. 189
Ephod, ii. 79
Epistles of St. Paul, i. [191]
Falcon, Persian, iii. 205
Fancy, iii. 156
Farmer Moreland, i. [41], [69]—iii. 195
Fata Morgana, i. [220], [233]—iii. 172
Fernhurst, arrival at, i. [17]
Festivals of the Jews, ii. 7—iii 74
Fideles and Catechumens, i. [91]
Fieldfares, i. [260]
Fire-flies, i. [34], [78]
Fish caught by diving, ii. 15
... air-bladder of, ii. 20
Flexible iron-pipes, ii. 255
Flexible cups and spoons, ii. 211
Flying fish, i. [6]
Forest of Deane, i. [45], [56]—iii. 115
Forests of Australia, i. [155]
... Brazil, i. [47], [152]
... Europe, i. [179]
... submarine, iii. 34
Franklin and Bessy Grimley, i. [75], [125], [235]
Frost, ii. 77, 81, 94, 99, 120—iii. 73
Fruitieres of Switzerland, iii. 88
Fruit-trees, experiments on, ii. 196, 202
Futurity, ii. 279
Garden, Bertha’s, i. [129], [137], [174]—ii. 287—iii. 100, 125, 192
Gas-wash to destroy insects, ii. 196
Genius, i. [268], [270], [314]—ii. 2, 12, 32
Geology, classification, series, &c., ii. 198
... strata, dip, &c., ii. 220
... alluvial formation, ii. 235
... changes in the surface of the globe—deluge, ii. 241
... secondary formations—organic remains, ii. 247
... specimens of all the series—organic remains, ii. 265
... conglomerates, ii. 280
... trap rocks, iii. 4
... vallies—diluvium, iii. 15
... alluvial changes—ravages of the sea—blowing-sands, iii. 25
... change of level of the sea, iii. 33
... petrified sands, stalactites, iii. 41
... volcanoes, iii. 49
... organic remains, iii. 69, 96
... coal, peat, iii. 115
... vegetable remains, iii. 140
Gipsies, ii. 57, 69
Glass, plate, manufacture, iii. 43, 45, 56
Gloucester cathedral, iii. 139
Glow-worm, i. [34]—iii. 196
Goat-sucker, iii. 203
Good Friday, ii. 270
Goshen, land of, i. [262]
Grampus, i. [9]
Grasses, i. [171]—iii. 126
Gravel-walk, effect of frost on, ii. 83
Grenier, Mont, i. [125]
Grossbeak, i. [78], [94]
Gulf-stream, i. [10]
Gum-lac, i. [143]
Guyton de Morveau, ii. 13
Habit, force of, in plants, ii. 140, 191, 223
Hail, formation of, ii. 115
Halcyon, i. [178]
Hamlet, ii. 102
Harvest-home, i. [69], [85]
Hawking in Persia, iii. 204
Haydn, the composer, i. [314]
Hebrides, Hertford’s Letters from, i. [37], [58], [87], [119], [132], [140], [157]
Herculaneum manuscripts, iii. 182
Hoar-frost, ii. 77
Holyhead, iii. 232
Honey-bird, i. [288]
Hope, iii. 198
Horse, courage and power of, iii. 11
Hottentots, iii. 32
Humming-bird, i. [164]
Ice, ii, 77, 85—iii. 73
Iceland moss, i. [30]
Ichneumons, iii. 193
Imagination, iii. 154
Inclined plane, iii. 211
Indigenous plants of Great Britain, ii. 262
Industrious miller of Breda, i. [162]
Insects, ingenuity of, ii. 245, 290—iii. 121, 149, 173, 191, 193
Islay Island, antique remains, i. [140]
Israelites, i. [262]—ii. 17, 34, 67, 183
Japhet’s descendants, i. [227]
Jay, i. [246]
Jews, their dispersion, iii. 93
Jewish festivals, ii. 7—iii. 75
Joseph’s character, i. [238]
Juan Fernandez’ Isle, ii. 58
Kapiolani, heroic woman of the Sandwich Islands, iii. 63
Kelek, raft on the Tigris, i. [83]
Kilda, St., Isle, i. [157]
Kingfisher, i. [177]
Lac, gum, i. [143]
Lady-bird destroys the hop-aphis, ii. 190
Lace, machines for singeing, iii. 215
Laplanders, i. [212]
Leaven, ii. 6
Leaves, fall of the, i. [298]
Lethargic animals, ii. 89, 129, 181
Levitical dispensation, iii. 150
Leviticus, ii. 131
Lewis Isle, Druidical remains of, i. [119]
Lincolnshire, submarine forest, iii. 34
Light-houses of Holyhead, iii. 233
Lion, conflict with a horse, iii. 12
Locusts, i. [311], [316]
Looking-glass silvered, iii. 57
Looking-glasses (in Exod. xxxviii. 8), iii. 58
Love of God, the governing principle, iii. 20
Love your enemies, i. [134]
Luminous sea-water, i. [4], [133], [282]
Lumley, Mr., his history, i. [104], [194]
Madeleine’s history, i. [247], [306]
Madeira, singular deposit of sand, iii. 28
Malaria of Rome, i. [200], [202]
Malt, ii. 135
Mammoth, iii. 70, 101
Man-of-war bird, i. [6]
Manuscripts, ancient, iii. 182
Marmot, ii. 109
Mason wasp, ii. 149
Maté of Paraguay, ii. 212
Mauritia palms, inhabited by the Indians, i. [187]
May-day customs, iii. 77
Memory, iii. 65
Mexican volcanoes, iii. 50
Migration of butterflies, iii. 147
... swallows, iii. 145, 158
Mirage, i. [218]
Mirrors, iii. 57
Mississippi, ii. 114, 125—iii. 145
Mona marble, iii. 237
Monsters of ancient fable, iii. 103
Moses, character of, i. [275]—ii. 193
... prophecies of, iii. 38, 52, 90
... the two songs of, in Exod. xv. and in Deut. xxxii., ii. 66—iii. 110
... his exhortation and death, iii. 2
Mosses, i. [258]
Mozart, ii. 32
Mummers, ii. 48
Mummy from Egypt, i. [284]
Narrative of Mrs. P., ii. 146
New South Wales trees, i. [155]
Nisan, Hebrew month of, ii. 4
North Rona Isle, i. [59]
Northwich salt-mine, iii. 212
Norway, i. [43]—ii. 64
Numbers, book of, ii. 184
Oats and wheat, mode of growing, ii. 274
Organic remains, ii. 248, 265—iii. 69, 96, 140
Palms, i. [187], [198], [289]—iii. 165
Paddy, cultivation of, ii. 8
Palimpsest Manuscripts, iii. 186
Papyrus, i. [279]
Parable, ii. 229
Parys coppermine, iii. 228
Paraguay tea, ii. 212
Passover, ii. 3—iii. 74
Patriarchial dispensation, iii. 132
Paul, St., how to read his Epistles, i. [191]
Pear-tree, transplanted, iii. 123
Pearl fishery, ii. 22
Pen, ancient term for hill, iii. 187
Penrhyn slate-quarries, iii. 218
Peony, Chinese, i. [32]
Pepper, white and black, ii. 1
Petrels, i. [4], [7], [8]
Persian spoons, ii. 210
Pharaoh’s heart hardened, i. [295]
Phaëton, or Tropic-bird, i. [3]
Pin-making, iii. 138
Plagiary in poetry, ii. 73
Plagues of Egypt, i. [308]
Plants, distribution of, iii. 6
... migration of, ii. 262
... naturalize by habit, ii. 140, 191, 223
Play of capping, ii. 44
... questions, ii. 39
... stories, ii. 106
Polish given to glass, iii. 56
Pontcysylte aqueduct, iii. 214
Potatoe, i. [32], [117], [304]—ii. 192
Practical hints on self-government, iii. 200
Prairie dog, ii. 128
Prickly pear hedges, i. [27]
Psalms, i. [148]—ii. 49
Question play, ii. 39
Questions, arithmetical, i. [204], [307]
Radiation of heat and cold, ii. 78, 102, 137—iii. 209
Rafflesia, enormous flower of, iii. 8
Railways, iii. 222
Rapid flight of birds, iii. 162
Red-sea, passage of the Israelites, ii. 34
Rein-deer, i. [29], [214]
Resistance to injuries, i. [134]
Resurrection, ii. 276
Rhinoceros, ii. 232
Rice, ii. 8, 140, 143
Rivers that form alluvial deposits, ii. 235—iii. 26
Rona, North, i. [58]
Rooks, ii. 260
Roses, ii. 9—iii. 106
Rose-beads, ii. 211
Rumbdé, ii. 187
Sabbath, origin of, i. [51]
Sacrifices, ii. 4, 131, 137, 270—iii. 133, 150
St. Kilda, Hebrides, i. [157]
St. Paul’s epistles, difficulties in reading, i. [191]
Salt plain and cliffs, i. [63]
Salt-mine, iii. 212
Sandwich isles, ii. 144—iii. 62
Sarana lily, eaten, ii. 213
Scouler’s voyage, ii. 58, 112
Sea, change of level, iii. 33
... form of the bottom, iii. 286
... water, simple method of ascertaining the salt it contains, i. [12]
... luminous, i. [4], [133], [282]
... weed, i. [11]
Seal-cutting, iii. 221
Shakspeare, ii. 29, 102
Sheep-shearing, iii. 195
Shem and Japhet’s descendants, i. [227]
Siberian flexible cups, ii. 211
... fossil elephant, iii. 71
Sin-offerings, ii. 138
Sinai, Mount, ii. 68
Sky, isle of, i. [88]
Slate-quarries of Penrhyn, iii. 218
Snow, ii. 115
Solan-goose, i. [159]
Sparrow, i. [178]—iii. 146
Spicula of ice, ii. 87, 96
Spider, i. [283]
Sponge, ii. 39
Spring, the advance of, ii. 182, 187
Springs, i. [286]
Staffa island, i. [37]
Staffin, Loch, i. [89]
Staffordshire vallies, iii. 189
Stalactites, iii. 42
Starling, red-winged, i. [142]
Stockholm, i. [115]
Stories, i. [73], [105], [222]—ii. 22, 107, 146
Story-play, ii. 106
Stove for Palms, i. [187]—iii. 165
Strawberries irrigated, iii. 125
Straw-plait for the Florence hats, i. [201]
Sunday, when instituted, i. [51]
Suspension bridges, iii. 231, 234
Swallows, iii. 47, 143, 158, 203
Tabasheer, i. [240]
Tailor-bird, i. [80]
Talipot-tree, i. [290]
Taste, iii. 250
Tendrils, iii. 95
Teredo, ii. 254
Thaw, ii. 120
Thy kingdom come, explained, i. [117]
Tigris river, boats, i. [83]
Tillandsia moss, i. [232]—ii. 286
Titmouse, ii. 134, 203
Toad enclosed in plaster of Paris, ii. 92
Tobacco, ii. 93
Toddy-bird, i. [79]
Torpid animals, ii. 89, 130
Toucan, i. [49]
Trallhätta cataract, ii. 64
Trees of North America, i. [183], [231]
... European, i. [179], [198]
... of New South Wales, i. [155]
... of Brazil, i. [152]
Tree-ferns, iii. 140, 165
Tunnel, suggested by the Teredo, ii. 254
Turkish pipe, iii. 18
Unicorn, ii. 231
Unleavened bread, ii. 6
Urim and Thummim, ii. 80
Valleys colder than hills, ii. 101
Vegetables brought from the East, i. [31]
Venice, iii. 85
Vine-culture, South of Europe, i. [197]
Vinegar, made from ants, ii. 65
Volcanoes, iii. 49, 63
Voyage to England, i. [1]
Walker, Dr., habits of plants, ii. 141, 191, 223
Water, viscidity of, i. [8]
Watering plants by a dropping syphon, iii. 123
Wells, Dr., frost and dew, ii. 76, 137, iii. 207
Welsh roads, iii. 216
West the painter, i. [269]
Whale catching, ii. 21
Wheat, i. [303]—ii. 274
Wren, parental courage of, iii. 23
Yule-clogs, ii. 47
Zafferonee caravanserai, i. [222]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Sula communis.
[2] The cashew-nut.
[3] See Forbes’ Oriental Memoirs, and Asiatic Researches.