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INDEX

TO THE

ABORIGINAL Natives of New South

Wales, 201 Acer saccharinum, or Sugar Maple, 132 Addison, selections from, 30, 35, 63, 76, 91, 93, 100, 103, 140, 142, 157, 159, 166, 167, 231, 243

Affection, filial-Volney Beckner, 55
Affectation, remarks on, 66, 243
America, Passenger-Pigeon of, 15

Swamp in the Southern States

of, 11 American mode of advertising turtlesoup, 64

American Wilderness, Forty Days' Wanderings in, 245

Americans, remembrance of their European descent, 55

Animals, suitableness of their coverings, 140

conformation of, 166 April, the Month of, lines on, by Bishop Mant, 131

Arabia, Town and Port of Mocha, in, 145

Arctic Fox, how taken, 103
Arithmetic, mechanical, 159

Arts, Useful, described, 14, 23, 28, 39, 55, 64, 67, 79, 103, 112, 149, 156, 189, 198

Ascham, Roger, remark by, 228: Astronomy in ancient and modern times, 92

Atkins, Rev. Henry, lines by, 235
Atmosphere, the, 7

Attar, or Otto, of Roses, 143

Australian Grammar, 6

Automaton Ship and Sea, 151

Bacon, remark on his apophthegm of Knowledge is power," 198

Lord, selectious from, 199, 229,

232
Bairam, Festival of the, 129
Banks for Savings, 199

Barrackpore, in the East Indies, 119
Barrow, extract from, 23
Bates, extract from, 7
Battle of Cressy, 58, 69

Bay-tree, or Laurel of the Ancients, 224
Bede, Venerable, tomb of, 197
Bee, Natural History of, 180, 190
Beings, sentient, multitude of, 157
Benevolence a Luxury, 186
productive of true happi-

ness, 230 Biographical Sketch of the late Rev. Dr. Burton, 109

Bird-Catching, Wild, 164 Birds, use of, in destroying insects, 69 instinct of, in building their nests, 159

feathers of, 116

gizzard of, 223

Black Henbane, 200

Blackbird, services rendered by the, 247 Blair, selections from, 232, 243

Blue Mountains, and Govatt's Leap,
Scenery of, 177

Bodily defects, remark on, 186
Bolingbroke, extract from, 27

Eree, Rev. T. W., selections from, 234, 243, 247

Bridgewater Treatises, extracts from, 7, 38

Bridge of Sighs, Venice, 256
Bridges, some Account of, 121

of Great Britain, 123

of France, 126

Chalmers, Dr., on the duties of a

parish minister, 143

Chamæleon, tongue of, its structure, 108

Charcoal, nature, uses, and manufacture of, 3, 12

Chemist, the Young, 8, 167, 183 Cherry Laurel, the Common, 224 Chester, some account of the City of, 73

Chetah, or Hunting Leopard, 64
Child playing in the Church-yard,
sonnet to a, 79

China, Manners and Customs of, 77
Christian Hope, 14

Christian Faith the best support, 103
Christians, nominal, 35

Christianity, how introduced into England, 158

Churches, New, statement concerning, 221

Cobalt and Ultramarine, 111
Cod-fishery in Newfoundland, 150
Coinage of Money, 153, 239
Coleridge, extracts from, 6, 219, 223,
231, 232, 243

Combe, extracts from, 31, 102
Commerce, Results of, 100
Common use of Metals, 30
Comparison of Men with Animals, 231
Conduct, human, 63

Confidence in God, 103

Contentment, the true source of, 30
Conversation aud Solitude, 231
Corroboree, or Dance of New South
Wales, account of the, 241

Cos, island of, 162
Country Sunday, 103

Country Gentleman, his importance in
Society, 231

Covering of Animals, 140
Cowslip, varieties of the common, 243
Coypou, 103

Creator, greatness of, in his most
minute works, 66,
Cressy, Battle of, 58, 69
Crocus, soliloquy of the, 63
Croyland Bridge, 123

Cuthbert, St. discovery of his remains, 197

Dale, Rev. T., Funeral Dirge by, 229
Daubeny, extract from, 11
Death, Thoughts on, 39
Death-Watch Beetle, 229
Debt and Misery, 135
Design and Contrivance in the Works
of Nature, 38
Despair and Sorrow, 30
Detraction, Remarks on, 204
Dialogue between a Clergyman and
a Deist, 27

Dies, the mode of making, 240 Digestion, uses of the Gastric Juice in, 159

Dinner, a Chinese, 77

Discontent, its unreasonableness, 198 Dispositions, different, their effects, 247 Dissimulation, inconvenience of, 76 Dissolution of Friendship, lines on,

223

Division of Labour, its advantages, 140
Drake, remark by, on the pleasantness
of a Country Life, 243,
Dress, variations in, 158

Dum Dum, [an East India station, 166
Durham Cathedral, account of, 194

Eagle's Nest, account of, 111
Early Associations, 10
East India Stations, No. VIII.
rackpore, 119

Gaiety and Good Humour, 231

Gastric Juice, its uses in Digestion, 159
Genius, remarks on, 107
Gentleness, remark on, 190

Gizzard in Birds, a compensation for
the want of Teeth, 223
God, on acquaintance with, 35

wonderfulness of the ways of, 118 lines on the thought of, 207 God's omnipotence, remark on, 166 Godesberg, on the Rhine, High Cross at, 114

Good done by degrees, 167
Good-humour, definition of, 199
Good-nature, 37

Good Parishioner, description of, 94
Govatt's Leap, 177

Grammar, an Australian, 6

Greek Islands, No. III., Cos, or Stanco, 162

No. IV., Chios, or Scio, I., 226 Gregory the Great, anecdote of, 158 Grosse Horloge, or Great Clock of Rouen, 18

Hall, Bishop, selections from, 27, 76,
78, 142

Happiness the companion of Virtue, 76
Havre, 176

Haydn, opinion of a lady on his quar-
tetts, 60

Heart, human, not on left side, 229
Heat, and its application to the pur-
poses of life, 94

various ways of producing, 183
Hellebore, various species of, 96
Hen, instinct in a, 231
Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of
Reading, 223
Herrick's Litany, 35
Hodgkin, extract from, 13
Holly-tree, Lines on-Southey, 103
Honesty conducive to publie good, 13
Hope, Christian, 14

reflections on, 200
Horne, Bishop, on the recollection of
God's mercies, 14

Hot Climates, great Value of Water in, 232

Human Conduct-Addison, 63 Bar-Humility, lines on, by Montgomery, 10 remarks on, 76

No. IX. Dum

Dum, 166
Eating and Drinking, 13
Eclipsed Sun, lines on the, 198
Economy of Nature, 95

and Harmony of Nature, I., 133-II., 181-III. The Animal Kingdom, 186

Education, the true basis of, 23
Egypt, lines on, 167
Egyptian Thebes, some account of,
42,82

Elephants, a Rhinoceros attacked by, 2
Elephant and Tiger hunting, 112,
Ely Cathedral, 34
England, impressions of, 53
Envy, its treacherous nature, 199
Ermine and Sable, how taken, 104
Errors and Superstitions, 220, 228
Exercise, proper modes of taking, 102
Exmouth, Admiral Lord, his Death
and Character, 142

Irish Peasantry, II., Superstitions of, respecting fairies and supernatural agency, 60

III. Keens and Death Ceremonies of, 100

Irving, Washington, extracts from, 37, 60, 63, 107, 143, 204

I've been gathering many a lovely flower, 207

Jackdaws, in the island of Ceylon, 248
Jamaica, splendid appearance of, 55
January, lines on, by Bishop Mant, 7;
Jesse, extracts from, 95, 103
Johnson, Dr. dying request of, 23
selections from, 32, 222,

231

Allegory by, 230
June, lines on, by Bishop Mant, 222
Justice and honour, principles of, 143'
Keens and Death-ceremonies among
the Irish Peasantry, 100

Labour and Rest, an Allegory, 230
Laurel of the Ancients, 224
Lavater, extract from, 14

aphorism of, 165

Letters, their beneficial tendency, 200]
Library, great, Reflection on, 142
Life, the present, a state of expecta-
tion, 116

London, Apostrophe to, 116,
Londonderry, Siege of, 25

Love of Self, 35

Merit equal to noble descent, 132
Metals, common use of, 30
Misery and Debt, 135
Missionary Travels in the interior of
Newfoundland, 117

Mocha, Town and Port of, 145
Moderation recommended, 31
Money, process of coining, 153, 239
Monk's-hood, or Wolf's-bane, 76
Montgomery, James, lines by, 10, 23
Robert, lines on Lon-

don by, 116 Mortality, thoughts of, 110 Moscow, Church of Basil the Blessed in, 185

My Library-Southey, 142
Myopotamos bonariensis, or Coypou,
103
Mythology, ancient, how incorporated
with Astronomy, 92

Natives of Swan River, 29
Nature, the economy of, 95

Design and Contrivance in the Works of, 38

Economy and Harmony of, 133, 181, 186

Natural love in Brutes, 140 Natural History, popular Errors in, 228

of the Bec, 180, 190 Neglect, evil consequences of, 66 Nest of an Eagle, 111 New South Wales, Sketches of, 177, 201, 217, 241

New Churches, Second Report of the Commissioners, 221

Newfoundland, Missionary Travels in the interior of, 117

Newton, John, instance of fortitu
in, 231

Normandy, Nine Days in, 169
Norway, Skating Soldiers of, 9
Novel-reading, ill effects of, 213

Oak, on the native species of, in
Britain, 65