Abraham's Heights, Derbyshire, 21.
Acre, appearance of the coast near, 294;
the town, 295; the people, 296; view
from a housetop, 296; population, 297;
unhealthiness, 297; great mortality, 298.
Adelsberg, grotto of, 525.

Adornment, universal love of, 270.

Advice,' by Savile, 408; by Bacon, 445.
Agincourt, battle of, 69.

Air, pressure of, 118; effects of its rare-
faction, 119.

Air-gun, India-rubber, 492.

Air volcanoes in South America, 620.
Alexander, Mount, 275.

Alps, Australian, 200.

Anemone, wild species of, 540.

Angelo, Michael, notice of, 154, 179.
Anger, 236.

Animal food, its limited use in the early

ages, and at present in the East, 28.
Animal kingdom, curiosities of the, 591.
Apophthegms, 408, 445, 590, 621.
Assyria: hunting, 27, 108, 162; costume,
270, 471, 568.
Astronomy, wonders of, 286.
Attendolo, Jacopo, career of, 327.

Australia and its Gold Regions, a Visit
to:'-Victoria, 5, 49, 73; New South
Wales, 101, 121, 149, 175; geography of
the continent, 200; mountains, 200;
rivers, 201; the "land of anomalies,"
202; botany, 203; zoology, 221; the
kangaroo, 221; the platypus, 221; birds,
222; insects, 223; reptiles, 224; fish,
224; the Aborigines, their physical con-
dition, 224; habits, 225; general charac-
ter, 226; the gold regions, 248, 273, 298.
Ballarat, gold-field of, 274.

Baobab, the, description of, 505; its dis-
eases, 507; its longevity, 507; esteemed
by Mahometans, 508; its importance to
the negroes, 508; uses made of its hollow
trunk, 508, 509.

Barbiano, Alberico da, 327.

Bargains, imprudence of an undue fondness
for, 187.

Barricane, Devon, 15; its shells and col-
lectors, 16; seaweeds, 17.
Barwon river, Australia, 74.

Battle Bridge, camp of Suetonius at, 396;
antiquities found at, and origin of the
name, 397; defeat of Boadicea's army
by Suetonius at, 398.

Beccafico, the, a table delicacy, 573.
Bedell, Bishop, his services during the
Irish Rebellion of 1641, 352; his im-
prisonment by the rebels, 353; his death
and burial, 354; his translation of the
Old Testament, 355.
Bell-rock Lighthouse: names of the rock,
227; tradition concerning, 228; plans
for a lighthouse, 229; temporary beacon,
229; the workmen's barrack, 229; dan-
gers of the work, 230; the first stone laid,

245; composition of the mortar, 246,
uses of seaweed, 246; residence in the
barrack, 247; description of the light-
house, 247; the light, 247; expense and
complete success of the work, 248.
Benson, Thomas, tradition concerning, 486.
'Billijik, a Turkish Legend,' 343.
Bird-catching in Syria and Egypt, 333.
Birds, curiosities of, 592.

Birds of prey, their incredible number and
voracity, 287.

Blackcap, account of the, 541.

Black Cavern, the, in Iceland, 526.
"Blue John," a beautiful spar, 21.

Blue Mountains, Australia, 201.

Boadicea, Queen, her wrongs and achieve-
ments, 395; her address to the troops,
398; defeat and death, 399.

'Books,' 528.

Botany Bay, transportation to, 152.
Boulders, 42.

Bourke, district of, Australia, 52.
Brachen, description of the, 262; its pro-
perties and uses, 264.

Bramble, beauty of the, 98.

Breakfast of the Syrian peasant, 410.
Breakwater at Plymouth, account of the,

438.

Britain, ancient, its conquest_by_Cæsar,

and subsequent neglect by the Romans,
391; its state in the time of Tacitus, 391;
coinage, exports, and imports, 392; ac-
count of southern Britons by Tacitus,
392; intercourse with Rome, 393; inva-
sion by Claudius, 393; use of elephants
in war, 393; conquests of Aulus Plautius
and Ostorius Scapula, 394; government
of Suetonius, 394; revolt of the Trino-
bantes and Iceni under Boadicea, 395;
fall of the Roman colony Camalodunum,
395; suppression of the revolt, 398.
Bronze, British, composition of, 392, note.
Broom-rapes, 168.

Brutus, supposed founder of London, 194.
Buffalo, combat of, with the tiger, 162.
Building, advice regarding, 207.
Bull-hunt, Assyrian, 111.

Bulls, wild, 110.

Buonaparte in Plymouth Sound, 436.
Burghul, manufacture of, 414.

Buxton and its waters, 18; curiosities and
scenery of its environs, 20.

Cæsarea, building of, by Herod the Great,
516; its neighbourhood, 516; ruins of,
517; its scriptural associations, 517, 518.
Caipha, modern town of, 349.
Cairns, 198, note.

Canterbury, its partial ruin in the sixteenth
century, 316; manufactures introduced
by foreign immigrants, 317; Protestant
fugitives in, 318; settlement there of
refugees from the Netherlands, 421;
their privileges, 422.

Caoutchouc, analysis of, 33.-History of:

a

its discovery claimed by the French, 205;
previous account of, by Torquedama,
205; Condamine's account, 206; mode
of collection, 207; experiments with,
232;
its use in the Pundua mountains,
233; attempts to restore it to its original
state, 234; Mr. Macintosh's invention,
234; employment of the fresh milk,
234; botanical history of, 277, 305; its
nature questioned, 277; trees which
yield it, 277; various kinds and price,
278; its wide diffusion, 279; found in
the food of the silkworm, 279; the
rubber-tree of America, 305; manufac-
tory of over-shoes, 306; the milk-sap,
307; bottles, 307; frauds of the Indians,
307, 308; liquid caoutchouc, 355;
solution used by Frederick the Great,
355; value of caoutchouc to the chemist,
355; caoutchoucine, 356; employment
of caoutchouc by the Indians, 356; its
various consistency, 357; manufacture
of the raw material-purifying, knead-
ing, 357; moulding, 358; plates or
sheets, 358; caoutchouc tape and thread,
405; the macintosh, 407; vulcanized
caoutchouc, 452; Mr. Hancock's inven-
tions, 453; Mr. Brockedon's paper, 453;
applications of caoutchouc, 469, 470,
491-493; waterproof clothing, kamptu-
licon, epithem, 469; springs, toys, &c.,
470; Mr. E. Smith's blind-springs, 491;
Mr. Hodges' cumulator, 491; bows, air-
gun, 492; marine glue, 493.
Carmel, Mount, 351.

Catwater, source of the, 433.

Caution in speech, necessity for, illustrated,

44.

Caverns, account of some, 525.

Ceastre, Maitland's derivation of, 195.
Ceremony, what, 192; uses of, 252.
Charles II., narrative of his escape after
the battle of Worcester, 616.
'Cheer up,' 384.

Cheltenham: its reputation, 170; the old
town, 170; the modern town, 171; the
springs, 171; traditions concerning, 171;
George III.'s visits to, 172; invitation of
the inhabitants, 172; Pittville, 173; St.
Mary's church, 174; botany, 174.
Chinese at St. Helena, 340.
'Christian Traveller, The,' 48.
'Christmas,' a song, 94.

'Christmas in the North of Germany,' 91.
'Civility never lost,' 139.
Climbing plants, 165.
Cockatoo Island, 152.

Cocoa-palm, its great importance to the
Polynesian islanders, 204.

Cold, extreme, 118; effects of, in Siberia,
210.

Coltsfoot, account of the, 456.

Combe's Gate Cove, Devon, 15.

'Conqueror, The,' 621.

Conscience, force of, 165.

Contentment, 335.

Coral reefs, account of, 43.

Coral reef, Australian, 211.

Corks of cacutchouc, 469.
Coulterneb. See Puffin.

"Country ropes," 167.

Cranmer, Archbishop, refugees befriended

by, 317; his hospital for wounded
soldiers, 318.

Crested Antiopa, a mollusc, 17.
Cuckoo, notice of the, 83.

Cuckoo-pint, the, 474; its root used as a
substitute for flour, 475.

Cumulator, the, 491.

Cupid and Death, allegory of, 143.
'Curiosities of Physical Geography,' 117,
208, 475, 591.

Currents, effects of, 208.

Cypress, longevity of the, 478.
Daffodils, verses to, 408.
Daybreak in summer, 98.
'Deathbed, The,' 528.
Debt, the public, 288, 551.
Derbyshire, mineral waters of, 19.
Deserts, sandy, 211.

Devonport: formerly called Dock, 361;
noticed by Boswell, 361; origin of the
town, 362; its prosperity during war,
362; change of name, 362; victualling-
yard, 363; the bakehouse, 363; the
dockyard, 364; the anchorsmiths, 364;
shipbuilding, 365; gun-wharf and steam-
yard, 365; want of church accommoda-
tion, 366.

Diadems, Assyrian, 570.
'Dirge of Rachel, The,' 576.

Dock, town of. See Devonport.
Dodder, the, 185.

Dog, its absence from Assyrian sculpture,

163.

'Doge of Venice, The,' 577, 611.
Dropping-well at Knaresborough, 479.
Ducks, wild, mode of catching, in Egypt,
106.

Earth, wonders of the, 209.
Earthquakes, 212.

Easter Day,' a sonnet, 408
Eddystone Lighthouse, the, 553; the Eddy-
stone reef, 554; Mr. Winstanley's light-
house of 1696, 554; its destruction in
1703, 556; another commenced by Mr.
Rudyerd in 1706, 556; the workmen
captured by a French privateer, and
released by Louis XIV., 557; the build-
ing destroyed by fire in 1755, 595; com-
mencement of the present structure by
Mr. Smeaton, 597; difficulties with the
workmen, 598; dangers from pressgangs,
598; hindrances, 599; first stone laid.
599; necessity for the work, 600; form of
the lighthouse, 607; interior arrange-
ments, 603; the keepers, 609; strength
of the building, 610; its comfort as a
residence, 610.

Education, aim and original meaning of,
570; the late Bishop of Llandaff on
university education, 571.

Eggs, importation of, 515.

Egyptian obelisk at Rome, erection of,
503.

Electric telegraph (submarine), account of
that between England and Ireland, 79.
Electric telegraph wires, machine for
covering, 138.

Emigration from the United Kingdom in
1851, 312; from the Mersey in 1852, 585.
"Epithem," used as a substitute for a
poultice, 469.

'Fable, A,' 143.

"Faithful Squire, The,' 66.
Fellahs of Upper Egypt, their mode of
catching wild ducks, 106.

Fern tribe, beauty of the, 86; how to
distingnish them, 87; their divisions,
88; fructification, 88; power of repro-
duction, 90; northern and tropical ferns,
91; fossil ferns, 91; the Adiantaceæ, their
distinguishing features, 260; the Adian-
tum, 260; old notion concerning fern-
seed, 261; the Lomaria, 262; the Pteris,
262; uses, 264; characteristic of the
Polypodiaceæ, 446; rock parsley, 446;
the common Polypody, 447; beech-fern,
448; oak-fern, 449; the Woodsias, 450;
distinctive mark of the Aspidiaceæ, 558;
Cystopteris fragilis, 558; the Polysti-
chums, 559; the holly fern, 559; the
Lastreas, 560; ferns on Dartmoor, 560;
marsh fern, 561; mountain fern, 561.
Ficus elastica, the, 277.
Fir-rape, the, 184.
Fire-springs, 212,

Flemings, colony of, in Pembrokeshire,

Fringes, their use commanded to the Jews,
473.

Galileo the astronomer, his residence at
Padua, 385; letters to Kepler, 386, 427;
his experiments and accomplishments,
389; adopts the Copernican theory of the
earth's motion, 389; fame of his lectures,
300; invents the telescope, 390; and the
microscope, 426; discovers Jupiter's
moons, 426; removes to Florence, 427;
his discoveries on the moon's surface,
428; his opinion of the Scriptures, 429;
discovers Saturn's rings, 429;
'Dialogues' condemned by the Inquisi-
tion, 430; forced to recant his opinions
and imprisoned, 430; his seclusion at
Arcetri and blindness, 431; visited by
Milton, 432.

his

Gam, Sir David, notice of his carcer, 66.
Gannet, notice of the, 549.
Gases, subterranean, 212.
Gaveston, Pierce, exccution of, 268.
Geelong, Australia, town and bay of, 73;

land in the vicinity, 74; wool, 74; pas-
toral-farming and squatters, 75; sheep
and cattle stations, 76, 77; mineral
riches, 78; state of society at, 96.
'Generous Foe, A,' 22.
George III., anecdote of, 172.
Germander speedwell, account of the, 527.
Geysers of Iceland, 39; the Great Geyser,

33, 212; New Geyser, 40; eruptions, 40.

Girdles, Assyrian, 568.
Glaciers of the Alps, 210.
Glacier cones, 42.
Glacier tables, 41.
Gloucester, Vale of, 170.
'Gold Diggings, The,' 96.

Gold regions of Australia: effects pro-
duced by the abundance of gold in, 248;
early occasional discoveries, 249; specu-
lations concerning, 250; public announce-
ment, 251; government licences, 252;
success of adventurers, 252; discovery
of gold in Victoria, 274; the Ballarat
diggings, 274; Mount Alexander, 275;
effects of the discovery on society, 275;
and on prices, 276; value of the gold,
276; a journey to Ballarat, 298; society
there, 299; success variable, 299; life at
Mount Alexander-gold-buying, 300;
mode of transit, 301; prizes, 301; Sunday
at the diggings, 302; quantity of gold
obtained in ten months, 303; extent of
gold-field, 303; alarm unfounded, 304,
probable results of the discovery, 304.
Good breeding, what, 192.
'Good Parson, The,' 552.
Goulburn, valley of the, 76.
Grape-harvest, the, in Syria, 529; autumn
in the East, 530; the vineyards, 530;
scriptural references, 531; planting, 531;
making "keif," 532; commencement of
harvest, 532; distilling, 533; treading
the grapes, 533; modes of preserving,
534; "dhips," 534; the winter or per-
petual vine, 534; the return, 535.
Grasses, climbing, 166.
Gravitation, 209.
Grumbling, 504.

'Guilty Conscience, A,' 165.
Guiriots, burial of the, 508.

Gulls and their nests, 547; their piratical
character, 549.

Gutta Percha, account of its discovery, 10;
the honour contested, 11; introduced
into England, 11: botanical history of,
12; localities, 12, 30; mode of collection,
13; yield, 14; rapid growth of the trade,
31; gum-hunters, 31; imports, 32;
qualities, 32; adulteration, 33; analysis,
33; effect of heat upon it, 34; its elec-
trical properties, 78; its application to
the submarine electric telegraph, 79, 159;
the manufacture, 112; slicing machine,
112; devilling engine, 114; the masti-
cator, 115; colouring, 116; rolling-mill,
116; uses to which it is applied-driving-
bands, 135; ornaments, 135; gutta-percha
string, 136; shoe-soles, 136; tubing, 137;
the tube-machine, 138; solution, 138;
properties of the tubing, 157; proof of
its great strength, 158; power of convey-
ing sound, 158; domestic telegraph of,
159; great durability, 159; moulds, 160;
substitute for lead, 160; boats of, 160;
its many uses, 162.

Hamoaze, 434.

'Happiest Day in the Week, The,' 213.
Hawkmoth, the, 487.

Heat, variations of, 117.

Helena, St., importance of the island, 337;
its discovery and first settlement, 338;
origin, 339; scenery, 339; the island a