INDEX TO VOL. III. Antipathies, national, 114 Appetites of plants and animals, 56 Arabs infanticide, 103 Archimedes, his love of Nature, 291 Arctic regions, scenery of, 172, 175 Ariosto, Colonna's visit to, 337. His Armstrong, his love of Nature, 320 Asses, wild, 23 Associations with deserts, 64 Athenians, infanticide, 101 Augustine, St., passage from, 105, Aurenzebe. His retirement, 93, 144 Anomalies; vegetable, 19; animal, Balzac, passage from, 252 21; mineral, 21 Antelopes, 23 Antigua, 168 Antipathies, animal, 28 Bantam, custom at, 90 Barbadoes, scenery of, 167 Barbarism, state of, 131 Barbyrousa, the, 28 Borneo, climate of, 150 Cannibals, 139 Cape, North, scenery at, 61 Cato, his march over the deserts, 61 Celebes, climate of, 154. Manners, Cesar, his legacy to the people, 348 Chagas, the Indian philosopher, 121 Charles V., retirement of, 301 Bos, Du, hypothesis of, 135. On Chauci, virtues of the, 88 climate, 95 Bragaden, his death, 110 Brazils, the, 164 Bruyère, La, passage from, 252 Burns, his love of Nature, 327 Byron, passage from, 65, 260 Caledonia, custom in, 133 Calumniators, three classes of, 271 Camaldaliasans, order of, 359 Cambyses, the loss of his army, 72 Camelopard, 27 Camoens, passage from, 159 Campeechy, Bay of, animals of, 167 Chearfulness, its value, 290 206 Chili, climate of, 166 Children, power of parents over, 99. Chiron, his love of Nature, 291 Cicero, his love of Nature, 297. His amusements, 298 Circassia, climate of, 144. Wives Cistercians, order of, 360 Claude le Lorrain, 310. A lover of Cleombrotus, death of, 121 Climate, supposed influence of, 94 Coligny, assassination of, 105 Cottage, the, 244 Cottagers, 349 Dennis, his love of Nature, 303 Dervises of the East, 364 Deserts, reflections on, 70 ➡, associations with, 63 Dieman's, Van, Land, productions Diocletian, his retirement, 301 Domingo, St., description of, 168 Dooraunes, their love of Nature, 350 Drake of Hadleigh, 343 Drummond of Hawthornden, 313 Country places, picture of society in, Dryden, 376 267 Courage, true, 284 Cowper, passage from, 252 Crab violet, 23 Cranch, his love of Nature, 328 Crane, the Balearic, 35 Crimea, climate of, 188 Ducas, punishment of, 270 Dupaty's description of a picture by Dutch merchant, his love of Nature, Crimes, inequalities between and Eagles, marriage of, 34 punishments, 97 Croto, climate of, 189 Cruelties of the Dutch at Batavia, Cruelty, remarkable instances of, Cym Dyr, 378 Ear, the, one of the masterpieces of Earthworm, the, 16 Education, Madras system of, 150 Electricity, affinities of, 13 Empire, extent of the British, in Employments, value of, 254 Envy, personification of, 269, 276 Esquimaux Indians, infanticide of, grotto, his alcove and his giant's cave, does not shed a tear to the memory of Valentine Morris? Noble, liberal, and high-minded; hospitable, elegant, and munificent; above all, an enthusiastic admirer of Nature's nobler features, this accomplished man first displayed those unrivalled beauties to the eye of taste. With a discriminative hand, he uplifted, as it were, the veil from the bosom of Nature, without discovering the hand that lifted it. Embarrassed in these attempts to improve his domain; his hospitalities knowing no bounds; his ambition of representing the county of Monmouth in parliament ungratified; and oppressed by some unforeseen contingencies; he was under the melancholy necessity, of parting with his estate, at the time in which he was appointed governor of the Island of St. Vincent. Before he quitted England, he visited Piercefield, in order to take his last farewell of its transcendant beauties. Upon his arrival, the poor, who loved him as a father, crowded round; the men with looks of sorrow; the women and children with sighs and tears. While this melancholy scene was passing and while some of the poor went down upon their knees to implore blessings upon him, Morris stood unmoved: not a sigh, nor a tear escaped him. When, however, he crossed Chepstow Bridge, and took a last view of the castle, which, standing on the edge of a high perpendicular rock, overlooks the Wye, and heard the sounds of the muffled bells, which announced his departure, he could no longer support the firmness of his character; but leaned back in his carriage, and wept like an |