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NAMES AND SUBJECTS IN THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME
AARON and the Priesthood, 42 Abernethy, selections from, 32 Acquirement of riches, on, 70
Action, necessity of determinate prin- ciples of, 216
Adhesion and Cohesion, 55 Advice of a philosopher, 200 Age and Youth, 213.
Algebraic sigus, + and -, origin of, 15 Altars, various kinds of, 197 American Indian tradition, 160 American's opinion of the wealth and power of Great Britain, 101 Anatomy, See Comparative Anderson, J. S. M., selections from, 134 Andrews, selections from, 176 Animals without feet, motion of, 136
powers of defence and offence possessed by, 104
on the feeding of, 142 language of, I., 22-II., 27
Animal life, wonders of, 70 Arabians, navigation of the, 161 Arnott, extracts from, 239
Art of gilding, 96
Arts and sciences, progress of, 246 Astronomy, Popular, Part II., 33-
III, 121-IV., 201
Attraction, on Capillary, 84, 156
Babylon, ruins of ancient, 2
Bacon, Lord, selections from, 136, 200, 212
Ballad, a, 235
Barton, lines by, 231, 235
Beauty, different ideas concerning, 3
interest felt in the preserva- tion of, 120
Belief of a future state, 19
Bell, present object of the passing, 190 lifting of the Kremlin, 235 Bell, extracts from, 3 Berkeley, Bishop, selections from, 104 Bible illustrated from monuments of
antiquity, XV., 12—XVI., 42- XVII. 107-XVIII., 148-XIX., 196
Black Rat, account of the, 216 Blair, selections from, 143, 184, 247, 248 Blessings, Christianity the greatest of, 16
Blind School, Philadelphia, 187 Bodies, law of falling, 181 Body and Soul, 159
and Spirit, dialogue between, 159 Boleyn, coronation of Lady Anne, 72 Bolingbroke, selections from, 224 Botany, incentive to the study of, 87 Bounty of God, lines on, 88 Bowles, lines by, 250
Bray, Mrs., selections from, 88 Brevity of life, 143
Brief history of Navigation, 161, 249 British sailor's praise of the sea, 183 Buckland, selection from, 70
Buffalo, Tradition of the, 160 Building of the Tabernacle, 107 Burleigh, Lord, selection from, 189 Butterfly, organs of digestion in the,
Colton, selection from, 136 Combats, Judicial, 170 Comb-cutting engine, 224 Companions, necessity of choosing, 191 Comparative Anatomy, Facts in, II., 28-IV., 104-V., 136-VI., 240 Compassion, an emotion never to be ashamed of, 184
Conscience, value of a good, 232 Conder, lines by, 3 Conductors and non-conductors Electricity, 151
Consolations of Religion, 11 Construction of the violin, 199 Coronations, Chapters on. III., The
Regalia, 4-IV., Coronation Vest- ments, 20-V. Great Officers of State, 44-VI., Services performed at the Coronation by tenure of grand sergeantry. The Court of Claims, 59-VII., 94 Coronation Anecdotes, III., 14-IV., 29-V., 51-VI., 71-VII, 102 Cottage gardening, I., 84-II., 109 Cowper, selections from, 88 Creation, wonders of the, 70 Cultivation of the Manioc plant, 57 Dahlia, 111
Cumberland, selection from, 200
Dahlia, cultivation of the, 111
Dartmoor, description of, 113 Davy, Sir H., selections from, 150, 246 Day and night, how produced, 204 Deer, horns of, 93
Defence, powers of, possessed by ani- mals, 104
Definition of Prose and Poetry, 30 Dependance of man upon his Creator, 3 Description of Tintern Abbey, 65 Desmond, Earl, fate of, 107 Dialogue between body and spirit, 159 Difficulties, resignation under, 70 Doum-tree of the Thebaid, 64 Dramatic writings of the Chinese, 153 Drink, excess in, to be avoided, 192 Drunkenness, evils of, 141
Earth, its appearance to the moon, 120 replenishment of, by plants, 191 Earthenware, remarks on, 13 Eclipses, solar and lunar, causes of, 127 Education, the use of a proper, 104 Effects of religious feelings, 15 Electrical experiments, 228 Electricity, I., General Principles of, Non- 111-II., Conductors and conductors, 151-III., Electrical Machines, 172-IV., 212-V., 228 Elephant, various species of the, 160 Elizabeth, coronation of queen, 83 Ely Chapel, Holborn, 129, 185 Engine, comb-cutting, 224 English, navigation of, during the mid- dle ages, 165 Envy, effects of, 68
Erdman, Mr., his description of phos. phorescent lichens, 220 Euphrates expedition, account of, 1 Europe, comparative tables of the weights, measures, and monies of,
Evils of drunkenness, 141 Excess in drink to be avoided, 192
Facts in Comparative Anatomy, III., 28-IV., 104-V., 136—VI., 240 Falling bodies, on, 179 Feeding of animals, on the, 142 Filial piety of the Chinese, 89 Filtration of Thames water, 54 Fishermen of France, 169
Flatterers, danger of encouraging, 159 Florence and the Florentines, I., 138 -II., 177
Flower garden, beauties of the, 147 Forest-trees, notes on, XXV., The Hazel, 116
France, oyster fisheries in, 133 fishermen of, 169
Francis, selection from, 173 Friendship, instability of, 240
necessity of care in the formation of, 247
Future state, on a, 119 Gaming, remarks on, 239 Gardening, remarks on cottage, 85- II., 109.
Gecko, foot of the, 240 Genius and virtue, lines on, 32 Gerdil, selections from, 223 Gilding, art of, 96
Gillman, Mrs., extract from, 187 Gisborne, lines by, 191
God, omnipotence and omnipresence of, 173
God, lines on the bounty of, 88! God's overruling providence, 134 Gold-leaf beating, 248 Goldsmith, selections from, 11 Good conscience, value of a, 232 Goodrich Castle, Monmouthshire, 97 Gravity, centre of, 188, 220 Great Britain, an American's opinion
of the wealth and power of, 101 Great buffalo, Indian tradition of, 160 Grub, organs of digestion in the, 104
Hale, Sir M., selections from, 141, 191 Hamley, Rev. E., lines by, 144 Happiness the reward of a virtuous life, 19
Harvest-time, hymn in, 200 lines on, 70
Hazel, the, 116
Health, lines on, 144
Herschel, selections from, 220 Hogg, selections from, 159 Home, what is, 3
Hope, Collins's ode to, extract from, 181
Horns of deer, 93 Hospitality, moderation in, to be prac- tised, 189
Hour-glass, philosophy of the, 158 Howitt, Mary, lines by, 19 Humphrey, Rev. Dr., extract from, 101 Hurdis, lines by, 15, 30, 70, 88 Hydraulic ram, description of, 211 Hymu in harvest-time, 200
Idria, quicksilver mines of, 155 Ill-temper, evil attending, 248 Imitation, propensity of children to, 32 Incentive to the study of botany, 87 Indian ink, how prepared, 174 Indian tradition of the buffalo, 160 Inks, mode of preparing various, 174 Inkstands, 236
Inorganic substances, uses of some of, to man, 119
Insects, on the transformation of, 150 Intellectual labour, aversion of man- kind to, 3
Intemperance, lines on, 119
Jewish master, story of a, 150 Johnson, selections from, 3, 195, 231, 247
Judicial combats, 170
Kentucky, racoon hunt in, 53 Kilmallock, Ireland, description of, 105 King's champion, duties of, 94 Knox, selection from, 232 Kremlin bell, lifting of the, 235
La Fontaine, selection from, 147 Land measures of area, table of, 63 Language of animals, I., 22-II., 27 Latitude and longitude, what meant by the terms, 208
Lavater, selections from, 221, 239 Leadhills, Lanarkshire, village of, 230 Learning not knowledge, 213 Leaves of plants, on the, 67 Leech, the medicinal, 231 "Let us go to the woods," 152 Liberality, what meant by, 134 Liberty conducive to happiness, 224 Lichens, phosphorescent, in the Dres- den coal-mines, 220 Life, shortness of, 3
Light of the marine animals, 237 Lighting public street, custom of, 140 Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, 45 Lines on Childhood, 64 Liquids, level surfaces of, 7 Locke, selections from, 19, 70 Looking-glasses and mirrors, 144 Love and friendship, 147 Love of the world, 157 Lucas, selections from, 8
Macculloch, extracts from, 22, 27, 119,
136, 142, 152, 191, 237
Macdonald, Alexander, anecdote of, 51 Machine, description of the electrical, 172, 212
Machine, description of the profile, 192 Malevolence, effects of, 143 Man a formidable animal, 104
dependance of, upon his Creator,
-uses of some of the inorganic sub- stances to, 119
-evidence of the ignorance of, 239 Manioc plant, cultivation of, 57 Mant, Bishop, selection from, 134 Manufacture of writing paper, 117 Marine animals, on the light of the, 237 Marking-ink, how prepared, 175 Maund, extracts from, 111, 147, 239 Measures of length, 62 Medicinal leech, 231
Mental diseases, treatment of, 45 Microscope, account of, IV., 16 Mirrors, mode of silvering, 144 Monday's expenses, 215 Monies of accompt, table of, 63 Moumouth, account of, 194 Montague, Lady Mary W., selection from, 19
Monuments of antiquity, illustrations of the Bible from, XV., 12-XVI., 42-XVII., 107-XVIII., 148- XIX., 196
Moon, phases of the, 125 Moral courage of women, 215 Morning, lines on a summer, 223 Motion of animals without feet, 136 Motion, on perpetual, 99 Moth, dwelling of a species of, 88 Mutual forbearance, 32
Myxine, glutinous hag, or borer, 184
National morality, its dependence on religion, 15
Natural Philosophy, Recreations in, II., 7-11, 55-IV., 84-V., 99- VI., 156-VII., 179-VIII., 188- IX., 220.
Natural phenomena, wonders of, 70 Nature, principles of cleanliness in, 195 Naval and military establishments, Woolwich, 233
Navigation, brief history of, Part III., 161-Navigation of the middle ages-the Arabians, 161 - The English, 165-IV. The Venetians, 249 The Portuguese and Span- iards, 251
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 209, 225, 241 Night-guards, establishment of, 214 Notes on forest trees, XXV. The hazel, 116
Nothing in nature lost, 240
Offence, powers of, possessed by ani- mals, 104
Officers of state, duties of, 44 Old English sumptuary laws, 157 Omnipotence and omnipresence of God, 173 Ordeal, trials by, 170 Organs of digestion in the caterpillar, grub, and butterfly, 104 Origin of the signs + and -, 15 Oyster and oyster-fishery, 132
Painting, definition of, 28 Palaces of Rome, account of, 74 Paley, selections from, 32 Paper, history of writing, 68
manufacture of writing, 117 Parchment, preparation of, 194 Passing-bell, the, 182, 190 Passions, government of the, 70 Pastor and village church, 130 Patrick, Bishop, selections from, 150,
Pavements introduced, 219
Perpetual motion, on, 99 Peterhoff, great fête at, 222
Petrarch's inkstand, lines on, 236
Philadelphia, blind school at, 187,
Phillips, extract from, 244 Philosopher, advice of a, 200 character of, 229,
Philosophy of the hour-glass, 158 Phosphorescent lichens, 220 Piazze, or squares of Rome, 79 Piety, filial, of the Chinese, 89 Planets, popular account of, 33 Plants, on the leaves of, 67 -replenishment of the earth by.
Plasterer, the, 32 Plumber, the, 31
Plus and minus, origin of the signs of,
Poison fangs in serpents, 61 Polyanthos, account of the, 244 Poor, sinfulness of oppressing the, 173 Pope, selections from, 212, 223 Popular Astronomy, Part II., 33-
Comparative sizes of the planets, 33-The Sun, 34-Mercury, 37- Venus, 38-III., 121-The Earth, 121-The Moon, 122-Phases of, 125 Eclipses, 126-Solar and lunar eclipses, 127-IV., 201-The seasons, 201-Day and night, 204 -Refraction, 205-Tides, 206- Latitude and longitude, 207 Porter, selection from, 220 Portuguese and Spaniards, navigation of, 251
Primrose, the common, 244
Printer's ink, what composed of, 175 Prize-fighting, on, 143
Profile machine, description of, 192 Progress of the arts and sciences, 246 Progress and public processions of Queen Elizabeth, VII., 9-VIII., 46-IX., 81
Prose and poetry, definitions of, 30 Public streets, custom of lighting, 140 introduction of stone pavements in, 219
Queen Elizabeth, her progresses and public processions, VII., 9-VIII., 46-IX., 81
Quicksilver mines of Idria, 135
Resignation under difficulties, 70 Riches, on the acquirement of, 70
the baggage of virtue, 200 Road measures of length, table of, 63 Rome, some account of the city of,
Part 1X., 73-Palaces, 74-The Vatican, 75-The Sistine chapel, 75 -Loggie and Camere of Raphael, 76-Streets of Modern Rome, 78- Fountains, 78-Piazze or squares of Rome, 79-Modern Romans, 79 Rothschild, anecdote of Joseph, 58 Rottler, J. P., account of, 25 Ruins of Tintern Abbey, 65 Rural sounds, 152 Russia, scene in, 222
Sacrifice, universality of, 148 Sago Palm, description of the, 24 St. Swithin, 15
San Lorenzo, Florence, church of, 138 Sanford, Mrs. J., selections from, 150, 215
Say, J. B., anecdote by, 110 Scene in Russia, 222
Sea, British sailor's praise of the, 183 shell, lines on, 231 Seasons, successions of the, 201 Self-instruction, advantages afforded for, 240
Sensibility of women, 159
Sensitive mind, advantages cf a, 150 Serpents, poison fangs in, 61 Shakspeare, selections from, 147 Shortness of life, 3
Simpson, extract from, 54
Sin, deceitfulness of the pleasures of, 239
Sistine chapel, Rome, account of, 75 Slater, the, 31
Smith, selection from, 3
Smith, Adam, selection from, 19 Snake and the viper, 140 Sorrow, effects of, 147 Soul and body, 159 Sounds, rural, 152
South, selection from, 223 Stebbing, extract from, 159 Steele, selection from, 213 Sterne, selection from, 143 Stethoscope, or chest-explorer, 226 Stone pavements in streets, 219 Story, Robert, lines by, 183 Strafford, Lord, selection from, 192 Streets, lighting, 140 Struve, selection from, 212 Study of Truth, advantages of, 83 Botany, incentive to the, 87 Summer Morning, lines on, 223 - lines où, 19 Sumptuary laws, old English, 157
Tabernacle, building of the, 107 Taylor, Jeremy, Coleridge's opinion of, 24
-, Bishop, selection from, 224 Telford, extract from the life of, 62 Temple, Sir W., selection from, 223 Templeton, selection from, 96 Thames water, filtration of, 54 Thebaid, Doum tree of the, 64 Thinking not an easy employment, 247 Thompson, lines by, 200
Thoughts of the moment, value of, 136 Tides, operation of the sun, moon, and earth in producing, 206 Tillotson, selections from, 136, 221 Time, value of, 231
Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, 65 Tolling of the passing-bell, reflections on, 183 Transformation of insects typical of the
human being, 150 Trench, Mrs., selections from, 15 Trials by ordeal, and judicial combats, 170
Truffle, description of the, 29 Truth, on the study of, 83
the foundation of knowledge, 171
Tongue of the woodpecker, 28 Turnip-fly, account of, 6
Weights of Europe, table of, 62 Wilberforce, selections from, 56 Willmott, selection from, 240 Wind, velocity of the, 192 Women, sensibility of, 159
-, moral courage of, 215 Woodpecker, tongue of the, 28 Woolwich, naval and military esta- blishments at, 233
World, love of, 157, World, what the most sublime spec- tacle in, 136
Writing materials, IV.History of writing paper, 68-V. Manufacture of writing paper, 117-VI. On parchment, 133-VII. On ink, 174 -VIII., 236
Wye and Monmouthshire, II., 17- III., 49-IV., 97-V., 193-VI., 217
Young Chemist, XII., 91 Youth and age, 213
Sago-palm, fruit, &c, of, 24 Sail-maker, from a French print, 164 St. Paul's Cross, Cheapside, 48 St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle, 209 Sandals, coronation, 21
Scene in a Chinese drama, 153 Sceptre, king and queen's, with cross, 4 with dove, 4
Seal, great, of Henry the First, 5 Seasons, the, 201
Serpents, poison fangs of, 61
Ship, Anglo-Saxon and Norman, 165 Silvering table, 144
Slating, diagram illustrative of, 31
Snake and viper, heads of, 140
Neap-tide, diagram to illustrate, 208 Newcastle, views of, 209, 225
river view of, 241
New Weir, on the Wye, 193 Norman ship, 165
Offerings of the Egyptians, 148 Opposition and conjunction, illustra tion of, 38
Oyster, organs of breathing of, 132
Parallax, illustrations of, 40 Perpetual motion, illustrations of,
Petrarch's inkstand, 236 Phases of the Moon, 125 Venus, 39
Planets, comparative sizes of the, 33 nodes of a, 124 Profile machine, 192
Quadrant, or astrolabe, 252
Queen Elizabeth, procession of, thro' Cornhill, 9
Solstice, Summer and Winter, 204
Spinning, ancient Egyptian method of,
THE Euphrates Expedition, undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the navigability of that river, must be considered one of the most useful and interesting journeys recently made. Useful, not only because of proving practicable a much shorter and more convenient route from hence to India; but also as opening out new sources of commercial enterprise with a people with whom we have as yet had little intercourse; and whom, it appears, Europeans have hitherto much misunderstood.
But the usefulness resulting from such an expedition even yields to the interest it must awaken in the mind of the Biblical or classical antiquarian. The river Euphrates, whose banks have been styled "the cradle of the world," whose margins bore the proud weight of the greatest cities of antiquity; and whose bosom was ploughed by the ships of the princely merchants of Babylon, concerning which so many prophecies of Holy Writ were recorded and terribly fulfilled, the theatre of war of the Ten Thousand Greeks and the army of Alexander,-the early seat of Christianity, offers a mine of material for the poet, the philosopher, and the historian.
Having been kindly granted access to the Notes VOL. XIII.
The modern town of Hillah is situated upon the river Euphrates, where once stood a considerable suburb of Babylon. Its present population, which may average from six to seven thousand souls, consists chiefly of Arabs, who have their own Sheik, but the Mutsellim, or governor of the place, is under the pacha of Baghdad, and resides in a fortress within the town. There are bazaars and markets on both sides of the river. The shopkeepers are chiefly Armenians, Turks, and Jews. A most important fact connected with these traders is, that Manchester and Glasgow goods that were taken out by the Expedition as samples, were eagerly bought by them, at a profit
Mr. Ainsworth's work, Researches in Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea, is now published, and the Author has departed on a journey to the Syrian Christians, under the auspices of the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Royal Geographical
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