Kirby Lonsdale, Foster. Lancaster, Milner. Launceston, Cater. Leamington, Merridew. Leeds, Robinson. Leicester, Combe. Lewes, Baxter. Lincoln, Brooke & Sons. Liverpool, Hughes. Llandovery, Rees. London, Berger. Long Sutton, Swain. Lyme Regis, Dunster. Lynn, Smith. Macclesfield, Swinnerton. Manchester, Bancks and Co.; Simms. March, Serjeant. Maryport, Adair. Merthyr Tydvil, White. Mold and Holywell, Lloyd. Monmouth, Heath. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Finlay and Co.; Currie and Bowman.
Berlin, A. Asher.-Hamburg, Perthes & Besser.-Leipsic, Black & Armstrong, (of London.)-Rotterdam, T. Marshall.—St. Petersburgh, A. Asher, United States of America, W. Jackson, New York and Cincinnati.
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 turtle-
soup, 64
American Wilderness, Forty Days'
Wanderings in, 245
Americans, remembrance of their Eu-
ropean descent, 55
Animals, suitableness of their cover-
ings, 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
Lord, selectious from, 199, 229,
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
Bree, 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
Timber, 127
Iron, 127
Floating, 128
Chalmers, Dr., on the duties of a
parish minister, 143
Chamæleon, tongue of, its structure, 108
Charcoal, nature, uses, and manufac- ture 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 Eng-
land, 158
Churches, New, statement concerning,
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
Faith, Reason, and Passiou, 229
Fairies and supernatural agency, su-
perstitions of the Irish peasantry
respecting, 60
Fashion, influence of, 6 Feathers of Birds, admirable struc- ture of, 116
February, lines on, by Bishop Mant, 54 Feltham, Owen, extract from, 66 Female fortitude in reverses of fortune, 143
Filial affection, noble instance of, 55 Flies, the Plague of, 237 Fortitude of women, 60
the basis of all virtues, 187 Friend, on the choice of, 186 Friendship, remark on, 200
Conduct, human, 63
Confidence in God, 103
Contentment, the true source of, 30
Conversation and 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, 213
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, 38
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. Bar-
rackpore, 119
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
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 public 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 Humility, lines on, by Montgomery, 10 -remarks on, 76
Irish Peasantry, II., Superstitions of,
respecting fairies and superna-
tural 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,
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 Coypoll, 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,
of the Bee, 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
Proper modes of taking Exercise, 102 Psalms, Papyrus Manuscript of the, 3 Quartetts of Haydn, 60 Quills and Pens, 157 Raghery, Island of, some account of, 209 situation and difficulty of access, 209-historical notices of, 211-excursion to the western side of, 212-the Bull Rocks, 213- superstitions, 214
Raikes, Robert, anecdote of, 167 Ramazan, o Mohammedan Lent, 105 Reading and Rumination, 186 Reason and Instinct compared, 223 Religion the basis of happiness, 23 Repose or Sleep of Plants, 168 Results of Commerce, 100 Retirement, 7
Robert Hall on the neces- sity of, 199
Retrospection, advantages of, 93 Rhinoceros attacked by Elephants, 2 Rhine, No. I., The Pfaltz, or Castle of the Palatinate, 98
Rhine, No. II., The Hochkreuz, or High Cross, at Godesberg, 114 Riches and Happiness, 11
Rich and great men not always happy, 76
Ripon Minster, 234
Rogers, remark by, on Travelling, 108 Roman Bridges and Aqueducts, 122 Rooks, their relish for walnuts, 235 Roses, Attar or Otto of, 143 Roslyn Castle and Chapel, 207 Rouen, II., The Grosse Horloge, or Great Clock of, 18 173
Rural Funerals, 204 Russia, I., Winter Travelling in, 49 II., Russian Peasantry, 89 III., Church of Basil the Blessed, in Moscow, 185
Satire and Ridicule, dangerous, 243 Savings, Banks for, 199 Saxeln, the Hermit of, 141 Scio, or Chios, account of, 226 Seal-fishery, 198
Secret Writing, the Art of, 224 Self, on the love of, 35 Self-denial, remark on, 167 Seven-eared Wheat, 7
Ship and Sea, Moving Model of, 151 Siege of Londonderry, 25 Simonides, anecdote of, 200 Simplicity, remark on, 246 Sincerity and Simplicity, 223 Singularity, affectation of, 100 Skating Soldiers of Norway, 9 Skelton, extract from, 27 Sketches of New South Wales, I.,
Scenery of the Blue Mountains, 177-II., The Aboriginal Natives, 201-III, Manners, customs, &c. of the Natives, 217-IV., The Corroboree, 241
Soap-worl, its uses, 159 Solar System, the, lines on, 8 Soliloquy, the Crocus's, 63 Sonnet to a Child playing in a Church. yard, 78
South American Slave-market, 68
Swamp in the Southern States of America, 11
Swan River, natives of, 29 Swift, extract from, 35-on Vanity, 232 Swiss Valley, 246
Switzerland, Hermit of, 141
Tale of the Indian Wars, 155 Tapioca and Cassava, 103 Taste, remarks on, 199 Taylor, Jeremy, selections from, 30, 222, 232 Temperature of the Weather, effects of, 157
Testimony, remark on its weight, 54 Thanksgiving, verbal, 38 Thebes, Egyptian, some Account of, 42-origin and rise, 43-its hun dred gates, 43-its situation, 43- its extent and internal arrange- ment, 44-ancient contracts for the sale of land in, 45-its splendour, decline, and ruin, 45-Luxor, 46- its inhabitants, 47-Christianity in modern Thebes, 47-grandeur of the ruins, 47-the ruins of Luxor 82-sculptures at Luxor, 83 -ruins and great temple at Kar- nak, 84-ruins at Medeenet Ha- bou,86-the Memnonium, or palace of Osymandyas, 86-Goornoo and its cavern-tombs, 87-the sitting
Colossi, 88 Thorn-Apple, common, 148 Tieck, on the exercise of Benevo-
Tillotson, extract from, 31 Time and distance, tendency of, 115 Time and Eternity, 166
dissipation of, 199
Trade, beneficial effects of, 142 Travelling, enjoyment of, 50 results of, 108 Trees, Economy of-Jesse, 103 Trimmer, Mrs.extract from, 23 Try, 167
Turkey, Rites of Burial and Cemete- ries in, 36
Turks, Manners and Customs of the, 105, 129
Turner, Sharon, extract from, 157
Southey, selections from, 54, 142, 221, Tyrol, Capital of the, 188
Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 52, 53 Ely Cathedral, 33 Etruscan Vases, 32
Fairhead, view of, 209
Fowl, varieties of the common, 24
Godesberg on the Rhine, Cross at, 113 Grand Vizier entertaining the officers of state, 105
Grass-tree, and Natives of New South Wales kindling a fire, 184 Greyhound, 56
Grose River, from Govatt's Leap, 177 Grosse Horloge, or Great Clock at Rouen, 17
Havre, entrance to the harbour of, 176 Head, section of the Human, 236
Hellebore, white, fetid, and black, 96 Human Heart, situation of the 229
Innspruck, the capital of the Tyrol, 137
Karnak, Ruins of the Temple of, 48 Lasso, mode of throwing the, in South America, 40 25
Londonderry Cathedral, Luxor, Colonnade in the Great Tem- ple at, in Egypt, 41
Mandrake, forked roots of the, 228 Mastiff, Greyhound, and Pointer, 56 Mechanical Arithmetic, illustrations
Whately, Archbishop, on the admix- ture of Good and Evil, 204 Wheat, the Seven-eared, 7 Wilberforce, extract from, 35 Wild Bird Catching, 164 Winter Travelling in Russia, 49 Wisdom, Truth, and Genius, 14 Woman compared to a Vine, 63
the stay and solace of Man in adversity, 134
Women, their fortitude, 63 Workman, the careless, 32 World, the Field of, liues on, by Montgomery, 23
Wreck at Sea, 37 Written characters, their origin and progress, 51
Young Chemist, the, 8, 167, 183
Russian Serf, Cottage of the, 89
Scio, Fountain in the Island of, 225 Scythian Lamb, 220
Seal, common, 198
Sedge, Great Panicled, 4 Seven-eared Wheat, 7
Skating Soldiers of Norway, 9
Sleep of Plants, illustrations of the Snowdon, and Village of Beddgelart,
Southwark Bridge, 128 Spoonbill, Windpipe of, 237 Sugar Maple (Acer saccharinum), 132 Takhaize, a large African Antelope, 80 Thebes, Colossal Statues at, 88 Thorn-Apple, common, 148 Tiger-shooting from a Platform, 112 Trial of a Native of New South Wales, 217
Turkish Funeral, Procession to a, 36
Venice, Ducal Palace at, 249
Colonnade and Library in the Procuratorie Nuove, 253 Bridge of Sighs at, 256
Whale, common Greenland, 156 tossing a Boat, 188 Fishery, Implements used in the, 157
Wild Bird Catching, 164 Windpipes of various Birds, 237 Winter Travelling in Russia, 49
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