Africa, unknown state of its interior, 449
Aleppo, revolution at, 109
Alexander, Emperor of Russia, inspects
personally some of the prisons of Peters
burgh, 90, 1
Algiers, Pananti's narrative of a resi-
dence at, 472, et seq.
Altham and his wife, a tale, 389, et seq.
character of the work, 393, the tale,
394, et seq.; extract illustrative of the
style and design of the work, 395, 6
American rivers east of the mountains, de-
scription of, 39.

Americans deficient in cleanliness, 41
Ancyras, an extraordinary race of men,
109

Anecdote of Benezet, 372

Angora goat, its fine hair, 104
Angora, history of, 104
Ants, their courage, and battles, 120
Apparatus to be used on ship board for
promoting a uniform circulation of
air, by way of preventing the attacks
of the dry rot, 74
Arabian alchymist, a curious account of
one, 233, 4

Arctic expeditions; a poem by Miss
Porden, 601, et seq.
Armenia, Kinneir's journey through, 97,
et seq.

Barnabas, Durant's sermon on the cha-
racter of, 79, et seq.

Bees, materials collected by them, 121, 2,
description of their tongue, ib.; their
faculty of finding the hive, 123; made
use of to disperse a mob, 125
Bellamy's holy bible, newly trauslated
from the original Hebrew, 1, et seq.; re-
marks on the author's claim to supe-
rior knowledge of the Hebrew language,
ib. et seq.; his assertion of the absolute
integrity of the Hebrew text, 3; al-
leged proof of the preservation of a
perfect verbal Hebrew text, 5; reviewer's

a

farmers and artisans, 43; difficulties
to be encountered by the poorer classés
of settlers, 44; back-settler's ideas of
elegance, 45; rapid progress of the
emigrant population of the American
states fowards a nation of powerful
energy, 48.

Birkbeck's letters from Illinois, 169,
et seq.; his account of his own situation,
ib.; his prospects, 169, 70; state of reli-
gion among the backwood's men, 171, 2
Bishop of London's charge to his clergy

in 1818, 569, et seq.; kis panegyric of
his clergy, 569; his picture of the pre-
sent times, 570; danger of the church,
and its enemies, 571; errors and in-
consistency of his Lordship's reason-
ing, 572, 3; his charge against the
dissenters, 574; tacitly condemns
the Bible society, 574, 5; ' letter
from lord Treasurer Burleigh, to Arch-
bishop Whitgift,' 575.
Black Agnes of Dunbar-castle, her admir-
able intrepidity, 322

Black Castle of Opium, 114
Blolsteinn, or the stone of sacrifice, 191 ·.
Boors, Dutch, at the Cape, character of, 409;
five refractory boors, execution of, 410,
11

Booth's lexicon of the primitive words

of the Greek language, 469, et seq.;
character of the present work, 469;
specimens of definitions, 470
Border antiquities of England and

Scotland, by Walter Scott, 305, et seq.
Borrows's two sermons on reformation

from Popery, 482, 3; remarks on the
subjects of persecution, 483; nature of
persecution, 483, 4

Bothwell castle dungeon, 319, 20
Breidafiord, islands of, 253
Breidamark Yokul, or the mountain of ice,
181, 2

Bristol jail, its wretched stale, 86, 7, 8
Brougham's letter to Sir Samuel Ro-

milly, on the abuse of charities, 358,
et seq.; change made by the Lords in the
original bill in regard to the appointment
of commissioners, 358, et seq.; change in
regard to the powers of the commissioners,
360, 1; charities excluded from the
operation of the bill, 361; abuse of the
funds of Pocklington school, 362; qua-
lifications of the paid commissioners con-
sidered, 363; remarks on party op-
position to ministers and its results,
365, et seq.
Brown's discourses on the Lord's supper,
584, 5; duty of Christians to cultivale
cheerfulness of mind, 58

Brown's Psyche, a poem, 263, 4; extract,

Christian faith, Miss Sinclair's letter on
the principles of, 77, 8
Christianity, Rowlatt's sermons on the
doctrines, evidences, and duties of,
245, et seq.
Christian slaves at Algiers, account of their
treatment, 479, 80
Christ, Person of, Wilson's popular
inquiry into the scripture doctrine of,
373, et seq.

Clergy of Iceland, their great superiority
over their brethren in other countries,
261, 2

Colel, Dr. John, founder of St. Paul's
school, detailed account of him and of the
foundation, 530; et seq.
Collyer's, Dr. lectures on scripture doc-
trine, 151; et seq.; evil of an indis-
criminating severity of criticism,
151; mankind most beneficially
taught by persons whose intellect is
on a level with their own, ib. ; dif-
ferent treatment to be observed by
critics, towards original writers and
mere compilers, 152; profound learn-
ing, &c. not essential to the ordinary
instruction of mankind, or to the at-
tainment of an extensive popularity,
io.; peculiar circumstances that may
tend to the exposure of a weakly.
evident
founded popularity, 153;
improvement in the Dr.'s style, ib.;
crisis of trial for a young writer, ib.
et seq; subjects of the present lectures,
154; the Dr.'s plan, ib.; the authority
and claims of revelation, ib. et seq.; sal-
vation through faith, 156; the duty of
submitting system to the Bible, 157:
propriety of a popular writer's ab-
staining from the appearance of philo-
sophizing, 158; objection to certain
modes of expression used by the
author, 158, 9; and note.
Colquhoun on the law and gospel, 30, et
seq.; subjects treated of, b.; the law
considered as a rule of life, 32; difference

between the law and the gospel, ib. ; folly
of resting on a violated covenant, 35
Commerce of Iceland, 262;
Committee, select, third report of, on the
poor laws, 420; et seq.

Congo expedition, &c. 445, et seq.; in-
fluence of the mysterious on the hu-
man mind, 446; conjecture as to the
probable consequences of a successful
expedition into the interior of Africa,
447; unknown state of the interior of
Africa, 449; present state of the in-
quiry in regard to the Niger, ib.; ex-
istence of the chain of the mountains
of the moon uncertain, 450; answer
to some objections as to the identity
of the Niger and the Zaire, ib.; deeply
interesting account of Cranch, the na-
turalist, 451; his unsubdued ardour in
his researches, 452; his death at Em-
bomma, 453; sailing of the expedition,
454; some account of Porto Praya,
ib.; arrival at Malemba on the African
coast, 455; visit from the negroes, ib. ;
the Congo enters the Zaire, 456; the
Sonio people, 457; appearance of the
river, 458; collection of human bones,
518; account of a black man named
Simmons, ib.; consultations at the court
of Embomma, 519; peculiar mode of
interment, 520; cataract of Yellala,
521 government in Congo, 523: sla-
very, ib.; crimes, ib. ; curious ordeal,
524; religion, 525; calamitous state
of the party, 325, 6; character of the
Congoese, 527; state of the highest
part of the river that was seen, ib.;
probability of its issuing from some
lake, 528

Corban, its meaning among the Jews,

352

Corinth, its situation, 267, 8; literature, ib.
Courtenay's treatise on the poor laws,
202, et seq.

Cox's lives of the more eminent fathers
of the first three centuries, 264, 5;
character of the work, ib.; author
liable to Tertullian's censure against
the Bishop of Rome, 265
Cranch, the naturalist, account of his
life, 451, et seq.; his ardour in his
favourite study, ib. ; his great attain-
ments, ib.; his dangerous researches
on the sea coast, 452; employed to
collect for the British Museum, ib.;
his religious sentiments, and death at
Embomma, in Africa, 453
Curiosities of literature, by M, D'Israeli,
587, et seq.; account of Chidiock
Titchbourne, 588; his address to the

populace, before his execution, 589;
verses written in the Tower, on the night
before he suffered, ib. the author's at-
tachment to the Stuarts, and hatred
of the Puritans, 590; secret history
of Charles I. and Queen Henrietta,
591; character of the Queen, ib.; her
engagement with the Pope and King of
France, to educate her children in the
Catholic faith, 591, 2; dismission of her
French household by the King, 592; the
Duke of Buckingham, 592, 3; Felton
the assassin, 593; propositions found
in his trunk, when he slew Buckingham,
593; Fellon's manly behaviour before
the council, 593,4; death of Dr. Lambe,
594; Alexander Selkirk, and De Foe's
Robinson Crusoe, $95; Steele's account
of Selkirk, 595, 6; prototype of Ro-
binson Crusoe's man Friday, 596;
charge against De Foe unfounded, ib.
mendicants called Tom o' Bedlams, ib.;
song of one, 596, 7
Cyclopædia, biblical, Jones's, 266, et

seq.

Death-watch, cause of its noise, 128, 9
Delinquency, juvenile, causes of the

alarming increase of, 83
Dictionaries, topographical, of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by Dr. Carlisle,
their admirable accuracy, 528
Discipline, prison, report of the com-
mittee of the society for the improve-
ment of, 82, et seq.
Dissenters, their care of their poor, 442;
relief afforded to parishes by their
charities, 443
Dissertations, Watson's, on various sub-
jects, 458, et seq.

Divine truth, Thornton on the best
means of promoting the spread of,
71

Elldborg, the fortress of fire, its crater,
&c. 190

Endowed grammar schools in England
and Wales, Dr. Carlisle's concise de-
scription of them, 528, et seq.
English Consul at Algiers, his humane con-
duct, 476

Erzeroum, city of, 230
Eusebius, Falconer's case of, in regard
to Mr. Nolan's charge of his muti-
lating Scripture, 563, et seq.
Eustace's private opinion of the Italian cha-

racler very unfavourable, 278
Evidence, Christian, Mearns's princi-
ples of, in examination of Dr. Chal-
mers's argument in his Evidence, &c.
of the Christian Revelation, 505
Evening, Italian, Lord Byron's descrip-
tion of, 52, 3

Expedition to explore the river Zaire,
narrative of, 518

Eyafiord, a district of Iceland, en-
lightened state of its inhabitants, 174

Falconer's case of Eusebius of Cæsarea,

563, et seq.; Mr. Nolan's charge
against the bishop, 563, 4; his tran-
slation of Eusebius inaccurate, 565;
passages alleged to have been erased,
567; improbablity of the truth of the
charge, ib.; bishop accused of muti-
lating St. Mark's gospel, 568
Fathers of the first three centuries, Cox's
lives of the most eminent, 264, 5
Fawcett, memoirs of. 240, et seq.
Felton, propositions found in his trunk when

he slew the Duke of Buckingham, 593;
his firm behaviour before the council, 594
Foe, De, charge against him by Dr. Beattie,
relative to his Robinson Crusoe, un-
founded, 596

Forest residence, gloominess of it, 41
Foliage, by Leigh Hunt, 484, et seq.
Fualdes, M. circumstances attending his
murder, 59, et seq.

Fungi, the effects as well as the causes
of the dry rot in timber, 73

Gallio, remarks on his conduct, 268, 9
Geysers, their eruptions described, 26,

et seq.; remarkable mode of obtaining
premature eruptions, 20

Gnadenthal, a Moravian settlement, 407
Godwin's life of the late Mr. Richard
Morris, 160, et seq.; reason of his
entering the army, 161; becomes the
subject of religious impressions, ib.; in-
curs on that account the ill-will of his
comrades, ib. et seq.; is cold-burned,
162; himself and some comrades pre-
vented from allending the meeting-house

Hebraica, Principia, 471, 2
Henderson's Iceland, 21, et seq.; strik-
ing peculiarities of the country, ib. et
seq.; nature of Dr. H.'s mission, 23;
welcomed by the islanders, 24; first
view of the dire effects of subterraneous
fires, ib.; disadvantage occasioned by his
late arrival, ib.; plan of his intended
journey, 25; plain of Thingvalla, the
ancient supreme court of justice, ib.;
description of the eruptions of the Geysers,
26, et seq.; the new Geyser, 27,8; sin-
gular mode of obtaining premature ex-
plosions, 28, 9; desolate state of the
country north east of Holum, 174;
valley of Eyafiord, ib.; excellent cha-
racter of its inhabitants, ib.; their
grateful emotions on being able to
purchase copies of the New Testament,
ib.; exemplary conduct of the Sys-
selmand, 175; Icelandic mode of spend-
ing the Sunday, ib.; dispute between
two distant churches, as to the right to
an old copy of the Scriptures, 175, 6;
author's interview with Thorlakson,
the tra..slator of Milton, 176; high
state of morality in the north of Iceland,
ib.; hospitable mode of providing for
reduced families, 177; boiling springs
at Reykium, ib.; description of the
prodigious stream of lava occasioned by
the eruplions of 1724 and 1730, 177,
8; the tremendous Sulphur Moun-
tain, its crater, black liquid pool, &c.
179; various striking travelling ad-
ventures, ib.; terrific wooden bridge
over an impetuous torrent, ib.; remark
able rope bridge still more tremendous,
180; phenomenon of a profane fa-
mily, ib.; Breidamark Yoku!, the
mountain of ice, 181, 2; its rapid
progress towards the sea, 182; author
passes a dangerous torrent flowing from
beneath it, b. ; another remarkable
moving ice-mountain, 183; account
of the desolating explosion of Skaftar
Yokul, 184; its striking appearance
at a distance, ib.; leprosy prevalent
in Iceland, 185; eruption of Kotlugia
Yokul, 186; Winter residence at Reykia
vik, 187, 8; mode of passing the long
evenings, 188; extract, 189; surtar-
brand or mineralized wood, 190; crater
of Eildborg, or the fortress of fire, ib.;
Snaefell, 191; description of a mountain
disruption, 192; discovery of Thorolf's
court of justice, 194; blotstein, or stone
of sacrifice, ib.; islands of the Breida-
fiord, 253; extensive bed of surlurbrand,
253, 4; range of mountains illumined
by a midnight sun, 255; hot bath of
Snorro Sturluston, 255, 6; valley of