Jetzer, Friar, 313.

Jurullo, volcano of, 6.

Kettlewell, Lumley, memoir of, 252.
Lambert, the infant, 334.

Mr. Daniel, 378.

Langley, Mr., 285.

Levi, Marcus, 239.
Lightning, effects of, 360.
Lisbon conspirators, 33.
Lizards in chalk rock, 287.
Littleness, wonders of, 88.
Lolkes, Wybrand, 225.

Longevity, anecdotes of, 14, 28, 61, 75,

92, 107, 119, 140, 156, 187, 237, 267,
284, 346, 426.

Lyttleton, Lord, presentiment of, 86.
Maestricht, vaults of, 357.
Mackay the fatalist, 101.
Maniac, ferocious, 194.
Manufacture, celerity of, 10.
Marble ponds of Persia, 159.
Marriot the glutton, 145.

Mapp, Mrs., the bone-setter, 187.
Martyrdom, recent, 430.
Medusa, the, 8.
Mermaid, the, 383.

Microscope, wonders of the, 101.

Minds, the cats' Raphael, 59.
Mine of frogs, 131.
Moll Cut Purse, 194.
Monkeys, mischievous, 191.
Monster, American, 437.
Monument of Vulong, 50,
Moore, Ann, of Tutbury, 257.
Moran, the ventriloquist, 74.
Mourner, amateur, 26.
Moving earth, 256.
Mulled Sack, life of, 49.
Murder in India, 47.

Reade, lady, 28.

Resemblances, singular, 350.
Revenge, fatal, 83.

Rio de la Plata, phenomenon in, 175.

Rocking stones, '87.

Russian longevity, 30.
Rutland cavern, 271.
Sabbatei-Sevi, 116.

Salt mines in Cheshire, 230.
Scrap Book, in every number.
Scylla and Charybdis, 226.
Sea, island risen from the, 179.
Senses, confusion of the, 72.
Seven, mystical number, 244.
Ship on fire at sea, 4.
Shrimp-man, musical, 348.
Siva, the Hindoo god, 369.
Slave ship, wreck of a, 114.
Snakes, American, 296, 299.
Spectre of the Broken, 197.
Spider, the gossamer, 383.
Starvation, voluntary, 21.
Stone-eater, 138.

Strength, anecdotes of, 392.

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Stukely, the perpetual-motion man, 109.
Sulphur mountains of Iceland, 168.
Swift's ballad on a murder, 7.
Strong, the blind mechanic, 141.
Storm, violeut, 286.

Stretch, Samuel, memoir of, 847.
Stylites, Simeon, 328.
Superstition, singular, 255.

the best doctor, 399.

Swan, a whistling, 399.

Sympathies and antipathies, 273, 322.
Tailor, blind, 111.

Terrors, midnight, 398.

Theatre of puppets, 174.

Three, the mystical number, 190.
Thunder storms, remarkable, 246.
Tiger and crocodile, fight of, 353.
Tiquet, execution of Madame, 161.
Toothless company, 176.
Trenck, Baron, 431.
Trial, whimsical, 248.

for murder, 261.

Tude, Henry Masers de la, 6.

Turpin, the highwayman, 424.

Typhon, violent, 146.

Urselin, Barbara, 113.

"Vade in Pace," terrible, 51.

Vampire of the ocean, 363.

Vampires and vampirism, 147, 166, 355.

Varieties, in every number.

Vegetables, fecundity of, 265.

Victims, human, 361.
Vine-fretter, 373.

Vishnu, incarnation of, 305.
Volcanoes in the sun, 150.
Vortex, singular, 341.
War and weather, 222.
Warning, supernatural, 123.
Water-drinkers, 111, spout, 335, quack,

425.

Welch, Mr. S. 75.
Well, remarkable, 31.
Whirlwinds, 73, 178.
Williamson, Peter, 241.
Winifred's well, St. 85.

Wonders, transatlantic, 266,

THE spirit of daring is so prominent a feature in the character of British sailors, that scarcely any thing they undertake can excite much surprise among those to whom their adventurous disposition is known; and yet the circumstance of a few hardy sons of Neptune drinking a bowl of punch on the top of Pompey's Pillar might have staggered our belief, had not the fact been too well authenticated to admit of doubt.

Pompey's Pillar is situated about a quarter of a league from the southern gate of Alexandria, a city of Lower Egypt, and once ts capital. It is composed of red granite; the capital which is nine feet high is Corinthian, with palm leaves, and not indented. The shaft and the upper member of the base are of one piece of granite, ninety feet long and nine feet in diameter. The base, which is one solid block of marble, fifteen feet square, rests on two layers of stone, bound together with lead. The whole column is one hundred and fourteen feet high. It is perfectly well polished, and only a little shivered on the eastern side. Nothing can equal the majesty of this monument, which seen from a distance overtops the town and seems as a signal for vessels. Approaching it nearer, Pompey's Pillar produces astonishment mixed with awe and the beauty of the capital, the length of the shaft, and the extraordinary simplicity of the pedestal excite the admiration of all travellers.

It was not however to mere admiration that a party of English sailors confined themselves.

These jolly sons of Neptune had been pushing the can about on board their ship in the harbour of Alexandria, when they determined to go on shore and drink a bowl of punch on the top of Pompey's Pillar. The eccentricity of the idea was sufficient to make it be immediately adopted, and its apparent impossibility a certain spur for putting it into execution. On arriving at the spot many contrivances were tried but without effect, and the British tars began to despair of success, when the officer who had planned the frolic suggested the means of accomplishing it by a paper kite, for which one of the men was despatched to the city.

The inhabitants were by this time apprized of what was going forward, and flocked in crowds to witness the exploit. The governor of Alexandria was told that the English seamen were about to pull down Pompey's Pillar, but he would not interfere, saying, the English were too great patriots to injure the remains of Pompey. He knew little however of the disposition of the people engaged in the undertaking; for had the Turkish empire risen in opposition it would not perhaps at this moment have deterred them.

The kite was brought and flown directly over the pillar, by which means a cord was carried over the capital. This accomplished, a rope was then drawn over, and one of the seamen ascended by it to the top, where being arrived, other ropes were handed to him by the same conveyance, and in little more than an hour a regular set of shrouds was erected, by which the whole company went up, and drank their bowl of punch amidst the