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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