When we reached the inn, we found that my aunt and Mary had bought some beautiful specimens of the green stone of Anglesea: it is called Mona marble, and is veined something like the verd-antique; but my uncle says it is not marble, but a species of serpentine; and that, like the green serpentine of Ireland, there is so much mica in it, that large pieces will not take an even polish.
I had intended to have given you some description of the great causeway which has been made to connect the little island of Holyhead, with the great island of Anglesea; but my uncle is waiting to enclose this to London, and my aunt is almost out of patience at my not going to bed, as we are to embark very early in the morning.
I must, therefore, abruptly conclude—though this is my last English letter. Oh! when shall I again embrace you and dear Marianne!
Your ever affectionate
Bertha Montague.
I N D E X.
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. [236]
... 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