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JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND;

NEW YORK, WILLIAM JACKSON; BOSTON, JOSEPH H. FRANCIS; PHILADELPHIA, ORRIN ROGERS; BALTIMORE, W. RICHARDS AND SON.

1836.

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Arabic, translations from the, by W. K., Christianity, how it may be mani195, 231

Arno and its Bridges, the, 186

Arts. Useful, described, 15, 23, 28, 63, 95, 119, 149, 164, 192, 207, 223 Associates, cautions respecting, 239 Assynt, 252

Atheism, folly of, exemplified, 221 Aurora Borealis, stanzas on the, by R. C. P., 221

Autumn Evening, the, 147

Bacon, Lord, extract from, 155 Baubat Caterpillar, mode of forming its nest, 13

Bangor Cathedral, North Wales, 76
Baxter, anecdote of, 94

Beetle, sacred, of the Egyptians, 68

the, and the Horses of the Pasha, a Fable, 91 Bell, Song of the, 233 Bell-Bird, account of the, 200 Berlin, some account of, 122-capture by the French, 123-the river Spree, and its bridges, 123-its gates, streets, and houses, 124the royal palace. churches, and other public buildings, 125, 126manufactures and commerce, 127 Bernard, St., a precept of, 53 Beveridge, extract from, 228 Bible, English, first translation of, 109 Society, the French and Foreign, 227

Biography, advantages of, 143
Birds clustering for warmth, 151
Flight of, 134

of Prey, defect of smell in, 72 Blood, Circulation of, in Man, 27 Bones of Animals tinged by feeding on colouring substances, 54

Bouquetin, or Ibex, 243

Brahminee Bulls, 136

Bridge at Fribourg, 215

Menai, 212

Rope, 210

Hammersmith, 214 Bridgewater Treatises, extracts from, 193, 227, 238, 240

Brighton, the Suspension-Pier at, 213
Brook, swift, lines on a, 67
Brownlee, W. H, lines by, 149
Bruges, city of, 114

Brussels, some account of the city of, 34-situation and climate, 34streets, squares, and palaces, 35 -senate-house, town-hall, and palace of the Fine Arts, 36Botanic Garden, church of St. Gudule, and cemeteries, 37-environs, Waterloo. &c., 38

Bucer, extract from, 231
Buffalo and Lion, 144

Burke, selections from, 167, 190
Busby, Dr., anecdote of, 75

Business, necessity of attention to, 51
Butler, Bishop, on false reasoning, 118

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fested, 227

Chrysostom, a saying of, 195

Church of Scotland, discipline of, 170
Churn, construction and uses of, 224
Cicero, a precept of. 110

Cider and Perry, how made, 120
Clarke, Samuel, anecdote of, 67
Cleanliness next to Godliness, 239
Cloud, Sonnet to the, 116
Cocoa-nut, ceremony of throwing, at
Bombay, 67

Coffee and Chocolate. 164
Coleridge, selections from, 96, 107, 118,
158-anecdotes of, 138, 237

Bishop, extract from, 239 Combe, selections from, 102, 151 Comet, lines on the, 149

Halley's, 180

lines on the, by R. C. P., 195
Common Sense, value of, 3
Compassion and forbearance, 23
Contentment, 4
Cooking, modes of, 192

Cordova, Cathedral or Mosque of, 26
Cork, and the Cork-tree, 17
Corn, mode of preserving in Morocco,

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Creative Power, operations of, 192
Criminal Laws of China, 74
Crocker, Lines by, 248
Cromarty Bay, 254

Cruelty to Animals, remarks on, 68

D'Aguesseau, anecdote of, 133
Daily events, remark on, 240
Danby, selections from, 71, 77, 110,
118, 143, 158, 203

Date Palm-tree, account of, 93
Dead, Love for the, 199
Death, the Palace of, a Fable, 231
Degeneracy of the human race, re-
mark on. by Hodgkin, 112
Desire of a wise man, 32
Devizes, Market-Cross of, 60
Diamonds, natural history of, 20-
the largest known, 21
Dingwall, 254

Distilling, different modes of, 149
Diurness, account of, 175
Doane, Stanzas by, 207
Dog, sagacity of, 240

Dogs and Cats, their dispositions, 228
Domestic Worship, prevalence of, in
Scotland, 250

Drew, extracts from, 19, 51 Drunkenness, on the effects of, 200 Duncansby Stacks, Caithness, 87 Dunrobin Castle, account of, 172 Dutch Farmers at the Cape of Good Hope, 240

Dying Words of a Christian, 239

Eagle and her young, flight of the, 183 Eastern story of Obidah and the Hermit, 168

East India Stations, VI., Allahabad, 10-VII. Ghazeepore. 103

Charitable judgment recommended, 23 Ebullition, causes and effects of, 196

Charity and self denial. 47
Charlotte, Princess, 194

Cheerfulness a necessary part of religion, 77

Cheese, how made, 244 Cherokee Indians, the tutors of West, 102

Chi ga of the West Indies, 44 Children, ye rly meeting of, in St. St. Paul sathedral, 159

Education, National, 78

Egypt, Mohammed Ali, Pacha of, 130
Egyptian Pottery, 204

Egyptians, sacred Beetle of the, 68
Electricity, 231

Electro Magnet, account of the, 232
Elizabeth, Queen, 247
Eminent Persons, deaths of 23
Enjoyment, real, in the company of
the good, 53

Erasmus, biographical sketch of, 146 Eternity, wisdom of preparing for, 118 Evening Hours, the, 64

the Autumn, 147 Exercise, best time for taking, 111 of the Lungs, 206 Exercise, different kinds of, 141 Exeter, Miles Coverdale, Bishop of, 190 Expectation and enjoyment, 226 Experimental Science, Familiar Illustrations of, IX., 196

Fables the Ocean and the Rivers, 13;

the Beetles and the Horses of the Pasha, 91; the Palace of Death, 231 Familiar Illustrations of Natural Phenomena, XV., 22

Field Flowers, poetical address to, 44 Fire-flies, magical beauty of, 167 Flight of Birds, 134

of Insects, 166

of the Eagle and her young, 183 Florence, the Arno and its Bridges, in, 186

Fly in Turnips, 181
Forest Trees, 3

Fox, John. gentle rebuke by, 53
French Fleet, dispersion of the, on

the attempted invasion of Irelaud, 165

Fribourg, in Switzerland, the Suspen

sion- Bridge, at, 215 Funeral at Sea, the, 152 Fungi and Mosses, 188

Galvanism, 231

Generosity and Prudence, 240
George I, correspondence of, with
Danish Missionaries, 70
Germany, account of Wurzburg, in, 66
Ghazeepore, 103

Gigantic Salamander, 112
Glastonbury, the Abbey of, I., 139-
II., 159

Glauber's Salt, mode of preparation,

227

God, Justice of, 23

Good-Breeding, the art of, 208

Good Example, its beneficial tendency, 30

Goodness and Slander, 32

Grammar Schools in England, 236
Great Numbers, III., Numbers descrip-
tive of Motion, 61
Great Bird of Paradise, 55
Greek Islands, I., Rhodes, 42-II.,
Patmos, 178

Gymnastics, beneficial tendency of, 95

Hacho, king of Lapland, story of, 158 Hall, Bishop, selections from, 14, 31, 77, 93, 99, 189

Capt Basil, selections from, 67, 71 Robert, extract from, 118 Halley's Comet, 180 Hamburg. City of, 50 Hammersmith Suspension-Bridge, 214 Hand, the Human, its structure and

uses, 198

Harvest in Nassau, 30
Haydn, anecdote of, in childhood, 51
Health, how undermined, 240

and Disease, remarks on, 102
Heat, the properties of, 196
Helleston School, Cornwall, 237
Hemans, Mrs., Sabbath Sonnet by, 44
Hemlock, the different species of, 226
Hempriggs Castle, account of, 171
Herring Fishery, Scottish, account of
170, 174, 252

Herrings, migrations of, 253
Highland, Costume, remark on, 251
Highlands and Islands of Scotland,
Sketches of the, 82, 170, 250
Himmala Mountains, 210
Hodgkin, Dr., on Malt-liquors, 165

Dr., on the Human Race, 112 on Drunkenness, 200 Hone, Rev. R. B., on the advantages of Biography, 143

Honesty, or Lunaria, account of, 45
Horne, Bishop, on the Psalms, 203
Hot-houses, hot-beds, and conserva-
tories, 63

House-Fly, the, 148
Hoy, Old Man of, 82
Human Hand, the, 198
Hunting the Leopard, mode of, 106

Ibex, or Bouquetin, 243
Icon Basilike, extracts from, 116, 117,

203

Immoderate desires, remark on, by Dr. Johnson, 102

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Kirchner, anecdote of, 221

Knowledge unprofitably sought, 77 the acquirement of, 182 the result of study, 195

La Bruyere, extract from, 187
Labour and Capital, 246
Lapland, story of Hacho, king of, 158
Lavater on affectation, 226-a maxim
of, 197

Learning, advantages of, 155
Leopard-hunting in the East Indies,
106

Letter writing, Chinese, specimen of, 14 Life, sea of, the adventurer on, 60 Light, effect of the presence or absence of, 203

--and its influence on animal and

vegetable nature, 238

Lightning, effects of, on Oaks, 156
Lion-Ant, the, 118

Lion and Buffalo Fight, 144
Local Attachments, 12
Loch Scourie, 251

Lochs Inchard and Laxford, 175
Logan-Rock, the, in Cornwall, 183
Long Life, universal desire for, 14
Lord, Dr., on the organ of Touch, 54
Love for the Dead, by Washington
Irving, 199

Lucerne, Town of, in Switzerland, 98
Lunaria, or Honesty, account of, 45
Lungs, exercise of the, 206
Lyte, Rev. H. F., lines by, 64

Mackerel Fishery, 69
Magnetism, 231

Malt Liquors, Dr. Hodgkin's remarks on, 165

Man, adaptation of his faculties to the capabilities of inanimate nature, 18 Manners and Customs of the Turks, I., a Turkish Festival, 90 of the Chinese, change of in

74, 138

the Highlands, 251

Mant, Bishop, selections from, 23, 179, 195, 208, 227

Market-Cross at Devizes, 60
Material Nature, the study of, 3
Mathematician, a self-taught, 14
Maxim, a sound one, 195
Melancthon, the Reformer, Biogra
phical notice of, 92
Menai Bridge, 212
Mental Pleasures, 110
Microscopic Vegetation, 188

Military Station of the Chinese, 183
Milk, its properties and uses, 223, 244
Misery, low converted into happi-
ness, 79

Missionaries in India, Correspondence
of, with George 1., 70
Missouri River, description of the, 10
Mohammed Ali, Pacha of Egypt, 130
Monkey and Crow, the, 152
Montgomery, lines by, 18, 55
Moon, Lines on the Rising, 184
More. Mrs. Hannah, selections from,
30, 47, 71. 155

Mornay, Philip de, sayings of, 148, 167
Mosque, or Cathedral, of Cordova, in
Spain, 26

Motion, Great Numbers, descriptive of, 61

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temper, 75

his mildness of

New Year's Eve, lines on, 248
Nightingale, song of, remarks on, 59
Nightshade, various species of, 4
Norwich Cathedral, description of, 202
Oaks, extraneous bodies discovered in,
156

Obidah and the Hermit, 168
Ocean and the Rivers-a Fable, 13
Oddities of Genius, 183
Old Man of Hoy, 82

Olive Oil, its manufacture, 24
Opium-eaters, an account of, 220
Organs of Sense, I., Touch, 54
Orkney, State of Education and Reli-
gion in, 82

Ouraug Outang, account of, 100

Ox and Cow, the various species of, 223
Ox and Sheep, uses of the, 207
Oyster Banks, 94

Palace of Death, the-a Fable, 231
Paper Mulberry-tree, 52
Paradise, Great Bird of, 55

Past and future, svmbols of, 107
Patmos, Island of, 178
Peasant's Home, the, 27
Perry, 120

Perseverance, necessity of, 117

remarks of Baron de

Grimm on, 239

Pickles, Plants used for, 29
Piety and knowledge-Boyle, 110
the only solace of the aged, 71
Plants and Herbs used for Seasoning,

28

Plato's remark on Children, 228 Poisonous Vegetables, 226

Poppy, the White, 220

Potato, prejudice against the, 147
Pottery and Porcelain, on the manu-
facture of ancient, 204
Princess Charlotte of Wales, Memoir
of, 194

Private Life, extract from, 151
Presence of Mind, effect of, 72
Profane swearing, folly of, 93
Proverbs, VI., 6-VII, 80-VIII., 116
Prudence, remark on, 199
Psalms, Horne on the, 203
Pulex penetrans, or Chigga, 44

Queen Elizabeth, 247
Quercus suber, or Cork-tree, 17

Rebuke, a gentle, 53

Reliance upon Providence, 158, 239 Religion the best consolation in misfortune, 30

the pleasures derived from, by Lavater, 227

no regular and supported conduct without the aid of, 221 Religious Knowledge, its importance as a part of education 117 Retzsch, (Moritz.) his illustrations of

the Song of the Bell, 233 Rhodes, account of the Island of, 42 Riches and Poverty-Calmet, 148 Rising Moon, lines on the, 184 Robertson, Dr., on the Circulation of the Blood, 27 Rooks, remarks on, 31 Rope-Bridge in Tibet, 210 Rose-gardens of Ghazeepore, 103 Rowe, extract from, 187

Sabbath Sonnet, by Mrs. Hemans, 44 observance of the, in Scotland, 250

Salamander, Gigantic, 112
Sal Ammoniac, the manufacture of, 227
Salmon Fishery in the River Conan, 254
Salt, the uses and properties of, 208

peculiar process of obtaining, at
Guiaua, 232

Scepticism. Bishop Mant on, 208 Scoiland. Sketches of the Highlands and Islands of. 82, 170, 250 Scriptures, presumption of objecting against, 118

Scudery on complaisance, 195
Seal Fishery on the Skerries, 174
Seasons, remarks on the choice of, 31
Sea-weed, nature and uses of, 132
Sharpe, extract from, 142
Shawl-Goat of Tibet, 31
Sheep and Ox, uses of the, 207

Silence, Sonnet on, 168

Sinclair and Girnego, Castles of, 88
Smeaton, the engineer, anecdote of, 148
Smo, Cave of, 175
Song of the Nightingale, 59

of the Bell, 234
Sonnets by G M. J., 116
South, extract from, 158
Southey, extracts from, 3, 151
Spanish Inns, description of, 58
Spices and other Condiments, 23
Spirituous Liquors, the pernicious ef

fects of, 229

Staubbach, the Fall of the, 162
Steam-engine, the properties of the, 197
Stone, Edmund, a self-taught Mathe-
ma ician, 14

St. Paul's Cathedral, yearly meeting
of the Children in, 158
Struensee, Count, memoir of, 234
Study of Insects, remarks on, 107
Sugar, its growth and manufacture, 29
Sumach, or Rhus coriaria, 12
Sun, Sonnet to the, 116
Sunday-travelling, Scottish antipathy

to, 175, 176
Sunday, lines on, 240
Suspension-bridges. 210
Sussex, Wingfield Castle, in, 63
Sutherlandshire, account of, 171
Swearing. Foly of. 93

Swift, Dean, selections from, 91, 158, 195, 228

Switzerland, town of Lucerne, in, 98

Valley of the Mouotta, 154
Fall of the Staubbach, 162
Town of Neuchatel, 218

Talents, remark on their abuse, 77
Talkers, Great, 199
Talmud, quotation from. 24
Taylor, Jeremy, extract from, 23
Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate 164
Telford, Mr., his bridge across the
Menai Straits, 212
Temperance of Cornaro, 19

Thelwall, anecdote of, 138
Thomas a Kempis, saying of, 203
Tibet, Shawl-Goat of, 31

-, Suspension-bridge in, 210 Time, on the misuse of, 4 improvement of, 116 remarks on, 133 Trade- Winds, the, 190 Trees, Fruits, and Flowers, remarks on, 167

Tuberose, singular property of, 107 Turbulence and hurry often a cover

for idleness, 53

Turkish festival, description of, 90

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Vaporisation, causes and effects of, 196
Vegetables and Salad Herbs, 28
uses of, 46
poisonous, 226

Vice, the best restraint from, 77
Vine, the, how cultivated, 95
Vinegar, how made, 150
Vintage, 119

Virtue, the sole parent of felicity. 14
productive of happiness, 47
Visible Creation, lines on, 18
Voyage round the World, 55

Wales, Princess Charlotts of, 194
Walton, Izaak, extract from, 222
Water in the state of Vapour, 22
Water, Air, and Earth, 222

uses of, 240 Waterloo, Battle of. 38

Weather, the necessity of protection against, 135

West, Benjamin, anecdote f, 102 "What is that, Mother?" by Doane, 207 White, of Selborne, lines by, 12

on rooks, 31

Whiten Head, Loch Eribol, 174
Wild Beast Fights in India, 143
Wilmot, Sir Eardley, anecdote of, 131
Winds, the Trade, 190

Wines, consumption of, in England, 95
Wingfield Castle, Sussex, 63
Winter Robin, lines on, 226

Wisdom and Knowledge not always companions, 24

and goodness of God in the animal Creation, 101 Witchcraft, belief in, in the Orkneys, 87 Wurzburg, account of, 66

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Princess Charlotte, Monument of, 193 Protococcus nivalis, or Ret Snow, 133

Quercus suber, or Cork-tree, 17

Rhodes, Tower of St. Nicholas, at, 41 Rope-bridge across a torrent in the Himmala, 216

Salamander, Gigantic, 112
Scarabæus Seal. 68

Sea-weed, various species of, 132, 133
Seed Receptacles in Mosses, 189
Shawl-Goat, 82

Sinclair and Girnego, Castles of, 88
Smo, Cave of, 176

Song of the Bell, 233

Spanish Inn, interior of, 57
Sphærobolus, the Star-like, 188
Staubbach, Fall of the, 161

Steam- Engine, cylinder and piston of a, 197

St. George's Chapel, monument of the
Princess Charlotte, in, 193
Stilbum, minute parasitic, 189
Sumach, the, or Rhus coriaria, 12
Suspension-bridge at Fribourg, 209
Switzerland, Lucerne, in, 97

153

Bridge over the Mouotta,

Fall of the Staubbach, 161 View at Neuchatel, 217 Sycamore Petiol Peziza, 189

Tomb at Ghazeepore, in India, 104
Tower of St. Nicholas, at Rhodes, 41
Turkish Festival, 89
Turnip-fly and Caterpillar, 181

Water-Dropwort, 225
Water-Hemlock, 225
Whiteu-Head, Loch Eribol, 173
Wingfield Castle, Suffolk, 64
Woody Nightshade, or Bitter-sweet,
Wurzburg, Germany, Bridge of, 65

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JULY

4TH, 1835.

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