Abyssinia, Mr. Salt's visit to, 916, et seq.
extracts from, 919, et seq. modern his-
tory of, 924, repasts of raw beef, 926,
familiarity in private parties, 928, on the
Christianity of, 933, religious and
commercial arguments for an esta
blishment in, 935, 936.

Acid, boracic, experiments on, 762. fluo-
ric, ibid. muriatic, 763. carbonic, 132.
Addison's recommendation of printed
sermons to the clergy, ill effects of,
603.

Aerial plants, account of, 254.

Eschylus, different editions of, and com-
mentators on, 997; remarks on Stan-
ley's edition of, by Butler, 999, et
seq,

Agriculture, a certain source of popu-
lation, 58.

Albany, inanners of its inhabitants, 168,
Alburnum, observations on, 518.
Alcyonia, fossil, 714, 715.

Alexander, emperor, character of, 571.
Alfred, disputed points of his history,

315, his retirement in Athelney, 316.
Alkalies, fixed, decomposition of, 344.
Amber, witchcraft attributed to, 457.
American scenery, 523, 524; war, first rise
of, 525; phraseology, 638.
Ammonia, composition of, 352, 757.
Analysis of language, requisites for, 256.
Annuities, Life, principles of, 958.
Anecdotes of Geo. III.

Antiquarian researches, modern predi-
lection for, 554.

Aoudad, an animal of mount Allas, des-
cribed, 664.

Apostles, change in their character, 740.
Arabs, observations on their character, 823.
Arches, on the origin of, 593. theories

of, 594, Mr. Ware's doctrine of, in-
correct, 597 et seq.

Argyle, summary of his character, 650.
Arithmetic, too many treatises on, 89.
Articles of the church, 537; history of,
620; should be adhered to by the es-
tablished clergy, 568, 503, 539; their
doctrine maintained by the dissenters,
505; and evangelical clergy, 624.
Ascension, feast of, how celebrated in The-
aki, 125.

Association of ideas, doctrine of, 719,
applied to illustrate the gospel, 720.

Asteris, island near Ithaca, not to be
found, 67.

Astronomical instruments, Troughton's
mode of graduating, 941.
Astronomy, Laplace's eulogium of, 894, er-
roneous, ibid.

Astronomy, uses of, 1155.

Athelstan, whether the same with St.
Neot, 311.

Atheistical notions of Laplace, their ab-
surdity, 892 et seq.
Atheistical speculations, Playfair's ma-
thematical blunder in opposition to
Vince's refutation of, 1050.
Atlas, mountain, description of, 662:
Atmosphere, its natural history, 835.
constant uniformity, 909..

Atonement, doctrine of, enforced, 186, 775.
Attractions, elective, Dr. Young's infe-
rences respecting, 943.

Baking bread on a journey, mode of, 921.
Bark of trees, formation of, 21 ; incon-
vertible into Alburnum, 441.
Barometer, observations upon, 837.
Basaltic rocks in Ireland, 515.
Bath, at Lucknow, described, 705.
Beattie, Dr. character of, 302.
Bees, their economy, 130.
Bequest, singular one, 229.

Biblical criticism, progress of, in the last
century, 37.

Bibliomania, effects of, 867.
Biography, modern improvements in,
whimsically exhibited in Toulmin's
Life of Bourn, 1136.

Blood, Dr. Young on the circulation of,
754.

Boa Constrictor, descriptions of, 1108.
Bombay, the inhabitants of, 821.

Bones, Jarrold's doctrine of the, 158.
Bookmaking, instructions in the art of,

187; great modern improvement in,
by the help of paste and scissars, 379;
instances of successful manufacture,
965, 1132, 1138.

Booth, Abraham, Life of, 383,
Brainerd, eulogium of, 95.
Breadfruit, not considered as an important
acquisition in Jamaica, 326.

Bruce, contradicted by Lord Valentia,
814, 829, 927, 928; account given by
the Abyssinians of him, 929. charges
& S

against his accounts,931. argued,932.
Burke, and Godwin, anecdote of, 507.
Burlesque of the Homeric style, 366.
Burns, reliques of, 394, a warning to
poets, ibid. sketch of his biography,
395 et seq. religion made an early im
pression on him, 395; of his poctry,
397; of his early reading, 398, 399.
versatility of talent, 406; his works
will be reduced by time to one third
of their present bulk, 410.

Calculi, urinary, on the structure of,
515; on the decomposition of, 912.
Cameleon, described, 666.

Cape of Good Hope, cascade and scene-
ry there, 695; importance of, to the
English, 696.

Capital punishments, multiplicity of, in
England, to be deplored, 72.
Carbonaceous principle in different sub-
stances, 761.

Carditis, symptoms of, not invariable,

287.

Cataracts in the eye, two cases of, 20.
Cattle, the length they have swam to obtain
food, 577.

Cephalonia, poetic description of, 669.
Charles I. the legality or illegality of
his execution, discussed, 643.
Charles II. discussion as to the merits of
his reign, 645; liberality of parliament
to him, 646.

Cheekbones, greater in all other nations
than in the English, 161.
Chemistry, its progress, 905; general
scheme for the study of, 915.
Chinese language, studied at Serampore,

193.

Christianity, evidences for, derived from

the east, 671; instance of its beneficial
effects, 680; characterized, 738, 739;
gaining ground, 281.

Christians, points of division amongst,
chiefly of human origin,.510.
Church, popular power of the primitive,
505.

Church of Christ, the, a phrase intend-
ing the catholic body of true believers,
1132.

Churchyard, a poem, extract from, 291.
Cid Rodrigo Diaz, account of, 217; su-
perstition and heroism of him, and his
companions, 218.

Cintra, convention of, condemned, 746.
Cities, their effects upon the mind, 562,
Clare, Earl of, Barrington's life of,1145.
Clarendon, Lord, privy to Charles II.'s
secret treaties with France, 645.
Clergyman, supposed character and his-

tory of a fashionable one, 459, & seq.
Cocking, barbarity of, 46.

Colour of the skin, occasioned by the sun,

162; calling forth iron as a mordant,

163; negro colour most perfect, ibid.
Colours, experiments on, by Herschel,
128.

Columbia river, Lewis and Clarke reach
its mouth, 113; its source not above
a mile from the head of the Missouri,
116,

Comets, uncertainty as to their consist-
ence, 131; observations on one, by
Herschel, 511; poem on the appearance
of one, 584.

Compound substances, Dr. Thomson on
their elements, 436.

Conic Sections, Wallace's New Series for
quadrature of, 1110.

Constitution of England, a knowledge
of it requisite for our youth, 70.
Convertibility of animal into vegetable
matter, 252.

Copernican system, argued, 885.
Corbrechtan, a whirlpool on the coast of
Scotland, 527.

Corn-laws, have occasioned the produce of
each harvest to be consumed within the
year, 55; interest of the landholder most
consulted in them, 56, 59, 60.

Creeds and confessions, inutility of, 504.
Crellius, a leader of the Socinians, his
final conversion, 335.
Cretinism, account of, 442.
Cruelty to animals reprobated, 485.

Lord Erskine's bill to prevent, rejected
by the Commons, 1154. restraints on,
not to be endured so early in the pro-
gress of civilization as the 19th cen-
tury, A. D. 1152

Dalton's theory for ascertaining elements
of compound bodies, illustrated, 437,
439.

Davy, professor, obtained a prize given
by Bonaparte on Galvanism, 17; his
recent discoveries in chemistry, 342;
et seq. electro-chemical researches,
611, 757,

Dawk, a kind of post in India, 698.
Dead sea, analysis of its water, in Phil.

Trans. 133; a confirmation of the
Mosaic History, 134.

Death, reflections on, 48; allegorical ac-
count of Joshua Gilpin's, 88.
Death-bed, usual one described, 47; death's
common-place, ibid.

Denmark, sketches in, 1058; reflections

on our political relations with, 1059.
Description in poetry pleasing, whether
of real or imaginary objects, 64.
Dexia, cave of, in Ithaca, description of,
69; supposed to be the port Phorcys
of Homer, 69.

Diamond, experiments on, 132.
Dictionary, vernacular, principal pur-
poses of, 83; most effectual mode of

Egypt, Lord Valentia's visit to, 937;
present wretched state of, ib.
Emphasis, a mark of cases, 261.
Encrinite, a remarkable fossil, 716.
Encyclopædias, the age of, 541; their
utility discussed, 542; hints as to the
formation of, ibid. general history and
character of, 543. et seq.
Epistles, the apostolic, essential to the
Christian revelation, 741.
Epitaphs, reflections on, 230.

Equation of payments, observations on,
152.

Equinoxes, precession of, Robertson's

memoir on, 17; causes of, 18; first
sketched by Newton, ibid. annual quantity
of, 20.

Established church in no danger from
sectarian opinions, 355, 359, 585; the
conduct of the clergy of, 356; their
disregard of the articles, 559; abuses
and defects of, 586; preaching of its
clergy, 622, 852.

Etymological philology, utility of, 448.
Etymology of topographical names, 452.
Eudiometer, a new one, 131.

Eumæus, Gell's attempt to identify his
residence in Ithaca, 120.
Evangelical clergy, their doctrine and
character, 623 et seq.; falsely charged
with enthusiasm, 850; the excellence
of their preaching, 865; of their writ-
ings, 856.

Fairy rings, conjectures on, 127.
Faith, Dr. Ridley's criterion of, 177; on

Florian, life of, 779.

Foetus, anomalous, dissection of, 943,
Foots retained by the Russian nobility, 573.
Forbidden fruit, Adam esteemed fortunate in
having tasted of it, 93.
Foreign-settlements, mania of increas-

ing, exposed, 697;-language gives
factitious value to ideas, 286,
Foreigners in distress, exertions of the
Society to relieve, 191.

Fossils different from analogous zoophytes,
713, 714.

Fox, C. J. bombastic characters of, 1116;
apologies for låsvice and irreligion, 1120;
their evil tendency, 1124; want of
bis enlarged and tolerant principles
among his disciples, deplored, 1128.
Free-masonry, instance of its pernicious
influence, 680.

Friendly Islands, account of a French-

man who had resided there, 577.
Frozen provisions, market at Petersburgh
for, 477.

Fulton's plan for carrying canals over the
highest mountams, 674.

Funerals in Virginia, poetical account of,
378.

Gadolinite, mineralized, account of, 1112.
Gaelic language, ductile and easily
combined, 453.

Gardiner, Col. his refusal of a challenge,
74.

Gas, advantage of applying it to econo-
mical purposes, &c. 443, 5; method
and expence of using it at Manchester,
444; experiments on, 517.
Geodesie, Puissant on the operations of,
415.

Geography, Pinkerton's and Playfair's

division of, 786; improved system of,
recommended, 792,

Geological conclusions, Parkinson's, 717.
Gertrude of Wyoming, its merit, 520,

effect injured by the stanza, 521.
Gnostics, Jones's notious respecting the
allusions to them in the N. T. stated
and opposed, 725 et seq,

Gospel, the design of, 801; why opposed
at Athens, 832; greatness of its power,
834.

Gospels, illustrations of, 722 et seq. agree-
ment of, 721.

Gradation in the productions of nature

Hazorta, an Abyssinian tribe, 918. their
rural economy, 919, mode of living, ib.
Heat, extreme, in which some animals have
been found to live, 254; other instances,
255.

Herschel, ill acquainted with the theory
of light and colours, 129; his futile
observations on comets and asteroids,
131, 511.

Hesiod, character of his poetry, 321;
an obscure passage explained, 322;
Cooke's translation of, ibid.
High-church party, their present system
is popery disguised, 501.
Highlanders, description of their huts, 307;
anecdote of one, 302; their scenery, 308.
Hydraulic investigations, 514.
Homer, a new translation of, in blank
verse, absurd, 776.

Horn music, in Russia, 574.

Horns of bull-calves, on cutting them off,
631.

Hottentots, improvement in their character,
696.

Howard acquitted of harshness toward
his son 104.

Huli, a Hindoo festival, 699.

Human race is of one species, 80.
Hyena of Africa described, 663; mode of
hunting, 664.,

India, European residents in, state of
religion among them, 429; prevalence
of deism, ib. insidious attacks on Chris-
tianity in their writings, ib. anecdote
of their joining in idolatrous ceremo-
nies, 430.

Indians, ancient, extolled by Dudley, 144;
reprobated, 145.

Instinct and reason distinguished, 79.
Intellectual courage, want of it in Eu-

rope, asserted by Wordsworth, 748.
Interest, rates of, at different times and
places, 90.

Intervertebral substance, Home on the
nature of, 945.

Ireland, why interesting to a philanthro-

pist and patriot, 1140; dissatisfied with
the Union, 1141; Barrington's account
of, 1142.

Ithaca, ancient, uncertainty of its si-
tuation, 65; Homer's description of
it not answering either to the modern
Theaki or Aotaco, 65, 66; poetically
described, 668.

Jamaica, its surface like a crumpled sheet of
paper, 325; corruption in the patern-
ment, ib. neglect of the white females,
327; want of means of education, ib.
amusements, and hospitality of the
inhabitants, ib. deplorable state of re-
ligion, 328.

Jerusalem wheat, occasion of its first
introduction in Ireland, 363.

Jews, their state in Asia an evidence of
Christianity, 671. (See Restoration),
Johnson rudely and indecently censured
by modern lexicographers, 81; by
Pytches, ibid.

Jordan, analysis of its waters, 135.
Jubilee, principles on which it may be
justified, 1157.

Jumar, a cross of the ox and ass, re-
ported to be seen in Biledulgerid,
665.

Junius, supposed to be the Earl of
Chatham, 968.

Jupiter, eclipses of its satellites, 518.

Kolf, Dutch game of, described, 458.

Leo Africanus, some errors in his ac-
count of Morocco, corrected, 662.
Leuka, in Ithaca, supposed to be the garden
of Laertes, 124.

Lewis and Clarke's expedition to the
Pacific Ocean, 106; dryness of Gass's
narrative of, 107; progress of, 109
et seq.; interviews with Indians, 112;
adventures, 114; winter near the Pa-
cific Ocean, 117; return, 118;
catchpenny account of, 1052.
Library, scarcely one eighth of a large
one really valuable, 557.

Life assurances, Frend's Principles of,
superficial, and erroneous, 956, et seq.
Light infantry exercise and tactics re-
commended for irregular forces in Eng-
land, 96.

Lithotomy, dreadful blunders in, alleged,
653.

Locust, a palatable food, 667.
Logarithms, on their denominations, 153.
Love,

an essential characteristic of
Christianity, 605; eminently display-
ed in the character of Rev. J. New-
ton, ib.

Mackelcan, lieut. col. his trial, 278;

testimonies as to his character, ibid.
sentence of the court martial upon, 279;
extraordinary reprimand of, 280.
Madeira, quantity and price of wine at,
695.

Madrepora, fossil, different kinds of,
712.

Mahometanism, declining, 827.
Malabar coast, desolation and mortality
there, 820.

Marocco, its climate, inhabitants, and pro-
ductions, 662, 663; population, 765;
different races of inhabitants, 766;
trade to, 769.

Marsden, Rev. Samuel, chaplain at New

South Wales, 987; memoir and eu-
logium of, 988-995.
Mary, queen of Scots, her apartments in
holyrood house, described, 305.
Maternal affection, flows with the milk, 161.
Massilion's sermons produce delight ra-
ther than conviction, 855.
Mathematicians, English and French,
their comparative liberality, 417.
Mathematics, their peculiar utility in
England, 150; exercise the imagina-
tion, 154; metaphorical nature of al-
gebraical representation, 157; decay
of the science in England, 1096; its
causes, 1098; improper mode of teach-
ing, 1100; Lacroix's opinion on the
subject,1102; prosperity of, in France,
1103,

Medical dictionaries, utility of, 371;
pernicious in the hands of ignorant
men, ibid.

Medulla spinalis, canal discovered in,
942.

Menu, institutes of, absurdity of, 145.
Metals of alkaline earths discovered,
612, 613

Mission, Baptist, in India, brief narra-
tive of, noticed, 94; number of con-
verts baptized, ib. illiberal disposition
to depreciate the labours of the mis
sionaries, 137; altainments of their
children in the Chinese tongue, 193; eu-
logium of, 271; defended against
Barrow, 272; defended against Scott
Waring, 419 et seq.; defended against

Lord Valentia, 702; defended against
Chatfield, 1087 et seq.

Missouri, voyage up the, 109; rapids,
and falls, 115.

Miracles of Christ, 939.

Mocha, police of, 823; trade, &c. 825;
coffee, price of, calculated, 826.
Mogadore, account of, 765.

Mohawk Indians, character of, 174.
Monk, general, his character, 644.
Monkey, one made governor of a city
in India, 818.

Monosyllables, the only primitives, 257.
Moors, account of their manners, 767;
sentiments of toleration amongst, 768.
Mocs deer, of their existence in Eng-
land, and Ireland, 307.
Morality of statesmen, 642.

Mosco, its appearance described, 477.
Multiplication, definition of, 89.
Mythology, heathen, degrading and mis-
chievous, 905.

Naneek, founder of the flindoo sect of
the Seiks, 425.

Nation in arms, an absurdity, 203.
Natural history, enriched by Péron and'

his associates, 996.

Nature a fund of gratification to ca-
sual, but especially to scientific ob-
servers, 708.

Navigation, interior, in America, Offici-
al Report on, 674.

Negroes, identity of our own species'

with, 75; their physiognomy, 161.
Nelson, anecdote of, at Copenhagen, 476.
New, every thing under the sun, 41:
all poets may be original, 42.
New Holland, various parts of, explored

978; Singular constructions found there,
985; manners of the natives, 981.
New South Wales, picture of, from Pé.
ron, 987.

Newton's, Rev. John, excellences and
faults of his character and works, 602
et seq.; Cowper's commendation of his
style, 606.

Newton, Sir Isaac, original memoirs of
231; anecdotes of, 232, at school, ibid. at
college, 233; discovery of his theory of
colours, ibid. his moral and religious
character, 234; his death, ibid. his early
mechanical ingenuity, 235; descrip-
tion of his lodging, mode of life, ibid.
his Principia allowed by Laplace, a
pre-eminence above all other produc-
tions of human intellect', 891.
Nile communicates with the Niger, 770.
Notation, Brinkley's new fluxional, 23.'
Noyes, Robert, short biographical ac-
count of, 334.

Odyssey, supposed corruption of, in the
description of Ithaca, 68.
Oils, vegetable, neglected, 283