INDEX to Volume II.
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
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