Cæsarea, present state of, 236. Calcutta, speculations on esta- blishing a regular over-land conveyance to, 290. Canada, Upper, particulars re- specting emigration to, and manners of the inhabitants, &c., 172-185. Candolle, M. de, contributions
to his collection of botanical drawings, by the ladies of Geneva, 463. Cape of Good Hope, its botanical riches disregarded by the natives, 2. Treatment of slaves there, 3. Capital, in political economy, observations on, 187. Castlereagh, Lord, characterized in a French work of biogra- phy, 514.
Cellini, Benvenuto, anecdotes of, 520-529. Cephalopoda, natural history of that order of shells, 488. Ceylon, manners of the Bedas, natives of its interior, 496. Chevalier, M. le, his system re- specting the Troad attacked, 504.
China, remarks on the trade to, 412.
Chinese language, various ele- mentary works on, 469. Clarke, Dr., observations on his account of the Troad, 505. 510.
Clement, M., memoir of, 515. Comet, seen at Valparaiso, ob- servations of, 280. Elements of, ib.
Constantia, visit to, and account of the wines of, 4. Conus-cedonulli, account of that shell, 488.
Corruption, universal, in the le- gal profession of Sicily, 477. Counsels, book of, or Pend- nameh of Saadi, extracts from, 501.
Cowper, the poet, compared with other writers, 317. Remarks on his attachment to Lady Austen, 320.
Cream, receipt for a lemon- cream and a pine-apple-cream,
Crusades, reflections on the ef- fects of, 534. Cumberland, description of a peasant's cottage in, 249. See also Selby.
Cupid carrying provisions, verses on, 437.
Custom-house, its practice ques- tioned as to depriving a tra- veller of prohibited goods,
Cuvier, M., account of, 516. Cyrene, remains of that cele- brated city, 356.
Dante, observations on his ge- nius and character, 301. Death-bed-scene poetically de- scribed, 167.
Debt, national, plan for reduc- ing, 107.
Decamerone of Boccaccio, criti- cisms on, 300. Deluge, extracts from a play on that subject, 371, 372. 374. Demand and Supply, discussion of those points in political economy, 257. Digestion, remarks on the repose necessary to, 333. Dover, conduct of the Custom- house officers at, 293. Downton-Castle described, 220. Dream, from a play on the De- luge, 371.
Dupuis, M., biography of, 517.
East India Company, observ- ations on their privileges of trade, 412. Education, peculiar institutions for, by Fellenberg and Pesta- lozzi, in Swisserland, 451, &c. See also Boys.
Egypt, observations on its tombs, sepulchral decorations, and 'mummies, 443.
Eleusinian secret, observations on, 18. Elzevirs, a family of classical printers, account of, and of their editions, 471–475. Emulation, its effects on the hu- man mind, 453. English, visitants at Geneva, their former and their present character and conduct, 465 -468.
Engrosser, See Monopolist. Ephemerides, of Europe, com- parative view of, 313.
Fallows, Mr., on a spot on the disc of the moon, 289. Fashion, picture of the hollow- ness of fashionable society and manners, 138.
Feast of Lantherns, in Japan, described, 342.
Fellenberg, M., his establishment for education, at Hofwyl, 451. 453.
Festival, Mohammedan, deli- neated, 159.
Fever, observations on the prac- tice of blood-letting in, 47. Flood, or Deluge, poetic de- scription of, 243.
Forestalling, observations on, 83. France, provincial society in,
before the Revolution, 450. French breakfast, or dinner, am- ple specimen of, 268. De- scription of French gardens, in the Lyonnais, 269.
Lantherns, feast of, in Japan, described, 342. Latin Exercise-Books, on the defects of, 324. Law, criminal, of England, on the present state and pro- posed alterations of, 62. Leckie, Mr. Gould Francis, his political principles arraigned, 494.
Leptis Magna, in Africa, ac-
count of the ruins of, 351. Lily of Liddesdale, Amy Gor- don, sketch of, 108. Liverpool, East India Associ- ation at, arguments of a Com- mittee of, 415. Longitude, Board of, attacked by M. Wronski, 407. Lorenzo de' Medici, his charac- ter defended from some French writers, 38, 39. 41. Speci- men of his poetry, and trans- lation of, 42.
Love, poetic invocation to, 170. Lucknow, manners of the natives of, 291.
Pazzi, discussion of the con-. spiracy of, 43. Pend-nameh, of Saadi, extracts from, 501. Pendulum,
observations for determining the length of, t 287.
Penitentiary system, remarks on, 69.
Pestalozzi, M., origin and prin- ciples of his institution for educating young persons in Swisserland, 452.
Philip of Pokanoket, an Indian
sachem, story of, 303. Plants, beautiful and curious, found at the Cape of Good Hope, 146.
Poison of the snake, instance of the cure of, 13. Among the Bushmen of the Cape, how prepared, 143. Pond, Mr., on the mural circle at Greenwich, 281.
Pont du Gard, description of, 274. Population, remarks on the prin- ciple of, and the doctrines of various writers, 26. Its in- crease at Berne, 457. Pozetti, Professor, his censure on Lorenzo de' Medici answer- ed, 41. Preston, battle of, description of the rebel army at, 248. Pretendiente, or hunter after court-favors in Spain, sketch of, 385.
Priests of the Temple of Baby- lon, song of, 131. Psalms, specimen of a versifi- cation of, 245, 246. Pyramid of pastry, receipt for,
Saadi, the Persian moralist, ex- tracts from his Pend-nameh, - 501.
Sabine, Captain, his experiments
on the dip of the needle, 277- Saint Remy, visit to the remains
of Roman buildings near that place, 275.
Saladin, Sultan, account of his. death, 539.
Scamander, remarks on its for-
mer and present state, 510. Scarabæus, or Beetle, observ- ations on its application in Egyptian mythology, 444. Schauenburg, General, his at- tack on the Swiss Cantons, 451.
« PreviousContinue » |