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restore a mutilated piece of statuary,
ib.; Black Castle of Opium, 114;
Boursa, the ancient Prusa, 115; mi-
serable state of the author, 115, 6; his
return to Pera, 116; renews his jour
ney, in company with Mr. Chavasse,
223; visits Terekli or Heraclea, 224;
crosses the Kizil Ermak, or Halys, 225
6; Trebisond, 228; Mr. K.'s life
-threatened by his Greek servant, ib.; the
party cross the Armenian mountains,
228,9; and the Euphrates, 229; plain
of Erzeroum, ib. ; interest of the na-
tives in the fate of Bonaparte, ib.;
city of Erzeroum, 230; the river Mo-
rad or water of desire, ib; visit an en-
campment of Koords, ib. ; hostile visit
from the Lesgæ, 230, 1; Betlis, 232;
the Beg or governor, ib. ; curious account
of a transmutation of four leaden bullets
into gold, by a persecuted Arabian philoso-
pher, 233, 4; alarming illness of Mr.
Chavasse, 235; harassing difficulties
of their journey to Mousul, 237, et
seq.; the Zezidees, ib.; death of Mr.
Chavasse, 238; Mr. K. enters Bagdad,
ib.; Bussorah, 239; arrives at Bom-
bay, ib.

Kirby and Spence's introduction to En-
tomology, 116, et seq.; subjects of the
present volume, 117; perfect and im-
perfect societies of insects, ib.: ex-
amples of each, ib. et seq.; first esta-
blishment of a colony of Termites, 118, 9;
courage and battles of ants, 120; three
materials collected by bees, 121, 2;
longue of the bee, ib.; the propolis, 123;
the bee's faculty of finding the hive, 123,
4; bees made use of to disperse a mob, ib.;
remarkable propensity of an idiot boy to
bees, 125; on the motions of insects,
ib.; gossamer webs, 126; great height
at which they are found, 127; ordinary
rate of the flight of house flies, ib.; in-
sects have no voices, 128; noises of in-
sects, 128, 9; the death watch, ib.;
grasshoppers kept by the Greeks in cages
for their song, 129
Koordistan, see Kinneir's journey

Lambe, Dr., his violent death, 592, 3
Latakia, its remarkable ruin, 109
Latrobe's visit to South Africa, 401, et
seq.; great importance of the Cape
as a settlement, 402; success of the
Moravian missionaries, 402, 3; their
judgement in selecting missionary sta❤
tions, 403; cause of Mr. Latrobe's
visit to Africa, 404; his arrival at
Groenekloof, 406; its population, &c.
ib.; Hottentot's mode of celebrating the
author's birthday, 407; proceeds to

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Gnadenthal, ib.; visited by a Christian
Caffre woman, 408, 9; character of the
boors, 409; execution of five rebel boors,
410, 11; strength of the iron wood, 412;
defile of Trekata'kou, ib.; composition
of the rock, ib.; Mr. Fereira's danger-
ous encounter with a tiger, 413; ac-
count of an extremely large Hottentot wo-
man, 414, 15; new missionary station
chosen, 415; battle between two parties
of baboons, 417; various noises on ship-
board, 418

Lava, extensive streams of, see Hender-
son's Iceland

Law and gospel, Colquhoun's essay on,
30, et seq.

Lectures on scripture doctrines, by W.
B. Collyer, D.D. 151, et seq.
Leprosy, its prevalence in some parts of
Iceland, 185

Lesgæ, a people of Armenia, 230, 1
Letter to an English nobleman, 271, et
seq.; remarks on emancipation, 272;
opinion of Lord Grenville on the ca-
tholic claims, 273; claims of the pro-
testant dissenters, ib.; temporal power
of the church of Rome, 274; concessions
justly demanded from the Roman catholics,
274, 5

Lexicon, Greek, of primitive words, 469,
70

Lord's supper, Brown's discourses on the
dispensation of, 584, 5

M'William on the origin, operation, and
prevention or cure of the dry rot, 71,
et seq.; opposes the principles of Mr.
Knight and Sir H. Davy in regard to
a supposed effect of light on wood, 72;
differs also from the latter on the tex-
ture of oak, ib.; fungi, the effect as
well as the causes of the dry rot, 73;
means by which the disease is con-
veyed into buildings, ships, &c., 73;
modes of prevention and cure, 73, 4;
on obtaining a uniform circulation of
air, 74; apparatus for that purpose to
be used on shipboard, ib. ; annual va-
lue of timber cut down in the United
Kingdoms, 75; excessive importation
of timber, 76; on planting the waste
lands, ib.

Maid, the young, and her mother's bible,
389, see Lucy Smith

Maintenance, separate, of the children
of the poor, 426, et seq.

Manson, Madame, memoirs of, written
by herself, 59, et seq.; murder of M.
Fualdes, 59; author's knowledge of the
facts attending his violent death, 60
Mearns's principles of Christian evidence
305, et seq.; origin of the present work,

507; assertion of Dr. Chalmers that
the existence of the Deity cannot be
ascertained independently of revela
tion, ib.; consequences of the Doctor's
reasoning, 508; true effect of the his-
torical evidence of Christianity, ib.;
legitimate deductions of reason from a
consideration of supernatural phenomena,
509; loose reasoning of Dr. C. in re-
gard to the Atheist, 509, 10; the Atheist
not to be convinced by the ostensible agent's
explanation of miraculous phenomena,
511; the conversion of the Atheist, who
sees no design in nature, not to be effected
by miracles, ib.; Dr. C.'s different mode
of reasoning in his discourses on the
modern astronomy, 514; fatal conse-
quence of admitting experience to be
the only source of human knowledge,
515; attributes of causes legitimately
deduced from the character of known
effects, ib.; application of this principle
to the existence, &c. of a Deity, 516: fur-
ther objection to Dr. C.'s principle of
reasoning, 516, 17; the internal evi-
dence of Christianity the most effica-
cious in producing a conviction of its
Divine origin, ib.

Memoirs of Fawcett, 240, et seq.
Mendicants, called Tom o' Bedlams, 596;
song of one, 596, 7

Mice of Iceland, curious account of their
nautical expeditions, 257

Minutes of evidence taken before the
committee appointed to consider the
petitions relating to ribbon weavers,
202, et seq.

Modern Greece, a poem, 598, et seq.
Moir's inquiry into some interesting sub-
jects of history, &c. 585, et seq.; origin
of the titles among the Saxons, 586, 7
Moon, mountains of, uncertainty in re-
gard to their existence, 430
Moral state of Iceland, 21, 176
Moravian missionaries, their great suc-
cess, 406

Morea, exiles of, 598, 9

Morris, the Rev. Richard, Godwin's life
of, 160, et seq.; his severe military per-
secutions on account of his religious
conduct, ib; see Godwin's life, &c.
Moss-troopers, summary mode of punishing
them, 319

Mythology, its true use in modern poetry,
488

Nawarth castle, 320; its dungeon, ib.
Neapolitan nobleman, wretched state of one
in slavery at Algiers, 478
Nepheliads, a song, 491, 2

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Nobleman, English, a letter to, in refer-
ence to the Catholic question, 271

Observations on the circumstances which
influence the condition of the labour-
ing classes of society, 202, et sig.
Ocean, apostrophe to, by Lord Byron, 53, 4
Off-islands of Scilly, report of the mi-
series of, 493, et seq.
Opium, Black Castle of, 114
Oraefa, Yokul, the highest mountain of
Iceland, 181,

Origin of titles among the Saxons, 586
Ottoman dominions of Asia Minor,
wretched state of their government,
98,9

Outram's dissertations on sacrifices, 550,
et seq.; author's opinion of the origin
of sacrifices, 350, 1; nature and design
of the temple, 351; ministers of the
oblations among the Jews, 332; cor-
ban, a term designating all the things
offered to God before the altar, 352;
animals offered in sacrifice by the
Jews, 353; the four animal sacrifices,
ib.; stated sacrifices of the Jews, 354, 5;
types, 355; typical relation of the
sacrifices, 356; on the sacrifice of
Christ, ib.; his priesthood, ib; on the
sacrificial work of Christ as effecting
the salvation of man, 357

Pananti's narrative of a residence in
Algiers, 472; et seq.; degraded state
of Italy, ib.; misery of the Chris-
tian slaves in Barbary, 473; cause of
Signor Pananti's captivity by the
Algerines, ib; conduct of the Bar-
barians to the captives, 474; their cru-
elty to a Captain of a Tunisian cor-
vette, 475; melancholy fate of a
young lady, one of the captives, ib;
appearance of the captives before the re-
gency, 475, 6; humane conduct of the
English Consul, 476; condemnation and
imprisonment of the author and his fellow-
sufferers, ib; wretchedness of a Neapo
litan nobleman, a captive at Algiers, 478 ;
liberation of the author, with the total
loss of his property, 478, 9; treatment
of the Christian captives at Algiers, 479,
80; liberation of all the captives in
consequence of Lord Exinouth's suc
cessful attack on the city, 481
Patriots, South American, Hackett's

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narrative of an expedition that sailed
to join them, 575; et seq.
Paul's school, St. account of its foun-

ders, foundation, and scholars, &c.
See Dr. Carlisle on endowed grammar
schools, &c.

Peculiarity, remarkable, of the Icelanders, in
providing for decayed families, 177
Persecution, the subjects of, 483; the nature
of, ib.

Pike's consolations of gospel truth, 173
Pleasures, domestic, by F. B. Vaux, 61-2
Pocklington school, statement of the perver-
sion of its revenues, 362

Poor laws, pamphlets on, 201, et seq.;
poverty and its causes, 202, 3; pau-
perism not dependent on population
and provision, 203; labour and capi-
tal necessary to the production of any
kind of commodity, 204; the labourer
has no right to enforce employment,
204, 5; is entitled to a just remune-
ration for his service, ib.; injustice of
the capitalist in reducing wages below
the means of subsistence, 206; inju.
rious consequence of parish relief, 208;
poverty of the ribbon weavers of Co-
ventry, and its consequences, 208, 9;
Mr. Hale's report of the state of Spital-
fields, 210; poor laws not the primary
cause of poverty, 214; Mr. Courte-
nay's three considerations prior to
abolishing the code of poor laws, ib.;
statute right of the poor to claim
sustenance of the parish, 215; origi-
nal pretence for appropriating livings
to religious houses, ib.; mendicity
an attendant on superstition, ib; acts
against vagrants, ib; begging by
licence allowed, 216; origin of the
poor laws, ib; Mr. Nicolls's remarks
on the poor laws, ib, et seq. ; prevalence
of mendicity in the Italian states, 218;
note; claim of discharged seamen to
legal provision, 218; folly and danger
of leaving the maintenance of the
poor to private benevolence, 219, 20;
consequences of the subscriptions for
the Spital-fields weavers, 221; singu
lar remarks of Mr. Jerram on the poor
laws, 222

Poor laws, third report from the select
committee on, 420 et seq.; contents of
the report, ib.; projects for removing
the radical evils of the system, 421;
evil consequence of mixing relief with
wages, 422; two modes of obviating
it considered, 422, 3; proposition of
enacting local bills, 424; obstacles to
such a regulation, 425; separate
maintenance of the children of the

poor, 426; its necessarily heavy ex-
pense, 426, 7; objections of Mr.
Nicolls, to a separate maintenance of
the children of the poor, 428, 9; further
objections stated, 431; tendency of
schools to perpetuate the existing evils,
433; suggestion for combining the
higher and middling class in the exe-
cution of the poor laws, 434; select
vestries not analogous to kirk sessions,
435; election and duties of the elders,
under the session, ib.; management of
their parochial poor's fund, 436; change
to be made in general vestries, accord-
ing to Mr. Sturges Bourne's bill,
436, 7; proposal for returning to the
old law, with regard to settlements,
437; Messrs. Nicoll and Courtenay's
objections to parochial benefit societies,
437, 8; Mr. Courtenay's proposition
for encouraging friendly societies, 440, 1;
on the poor of the dissenters, 442;
great relief afforded to parishes by
dissenting places of worship, 443;
evil tendency on the feelings, of ab-
stract speculations on the state of the
poor, 443

Popery, Ward's sermon on the reforma-
tion from, 275, et seq.

Porden's, Miss, Arctic expeditions, a

poem, 601, et seq.; anticipatious of
the Quarterly Reviewers, 603; done
into verse by the present writer,
602, 3; further extracts, 603, 4
Port Praya, capital of the Cape Verde
islands, 454

Posts and posting in the Turkish empire,
stale of, 101

Princess Charlotte of Wales, Lord Byron's
lines on her death, 51, 2
Principia Hebraica, 471, 2

Prison discipline, Buxton on the effects
of, 82, et seq.

Propolis of bees, its use, 123

Psyche, or the soul; a poem, 263, 4

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Rowlatt's sermons on the doctrines, evi-
dences, and duties of Christianity,
245, et seq.; modern fashionable ser-
mons, 245, 6; author's remarks on hu-
man depravity, 248; on the degree and
extent of man's apostasy, 248, 9; on the
Divine influences, 249; justification,
250; his definition of faith, 250; ex-
tract, 251; his speedy mode for acquiring
saving faith, 251; ignorant charge
against Calvinism, 252; unjust censure
of Calvin, ib.

Russian prisons of Petersburgh and Mos-
cow visited by Mr. Venning, by per-
mission of the Emperor Alexander,
90, 1

Sacrifices, Dr. Outram's dissertations
on, 350, et seq.

Sacrifices, origin of, 350, 1

Saxons, origin of titles among them, 586, 7
Scandaroon, its ruinous state, 107, 8
Scholars in St. Paul's school, origin of the

number, as determined by the founder, 531
Scilly islands, report of the miseries of,
494, et seq.; unproductive nature of the
islands, 494, 5; male inhabitants
chiefly pilots, 495; widows be-
come so generally by their husbands
being drowned, ib.; their unprovided-
for state, ib. ; miseries of the inhabit-
ants chiefly occasioned by the rigorous
enforcement of the preventive sys-
tem, ib.; detail of various cases of ex-
treme wretchedness, 498

Scott's, Walter, Border Antiquities of
England and Scotland, 305, et seq.;
character of the work, 307; funeral
monuments of the Celtic tribes, 308;
locality and extent of the border
country, ib,; the ramparts and wall
between the two kingdoms, ib.; cir-
cumstances that tended to determine the
present boundaries of the two kingdoms,
309; clanship of Scotland not de-
stroyed by the feudal system, 310;
benefits occasioned by the founding
of abbeys on the borders, ib.; ruinous
consequences of Edward the First's usur-
pation of the Scottish crown, 311; defen-
sive system adopted by the Scots, 312;
devastating inroads of the Earls of
Essex and Hertford, 313; character,
&c. of the borderers, 314; their women,
315; prisoners, ib.; religion, 316;
anecdote of Cameron, 317; duties of the
wardens, ib.; oath of purgation, 318;
punishment of the moss troopers, 319;
dungeon of Bothwell castle, ib.; Nawarth
castle, 320; its dungeon, ib.; anecdote
of Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank tower,

321; admirable intrepidity of Black Ag
nes of Dunbar castle, 322

Selkirk, Alexander, Steele's account of him,
595

Sermons on Popery, by the Rev. W.
Borrows, 482, 3

Shires or counties before the time of Alfred,

586

Simons's, the Rev. John, letter, Snow's
reply to, 242, et seq.

Sinclair's, Miss Hannah, letter on the
principles of the Christian faith, 77,
8; sanctification a progressive work, 78;
state of the young convert, ib.

Skaftar Yokul, its tremendous explosion
in 1783, 184; its present appearance,
ib.

Slaves, sale of, at Norfolk in Virginia, 35
Slavery, its baneful influence on Ameri-

can morals, 37,8

Smith, Lucy, a tale, 389, et seq.; a
thor's explanatory preface, 390; the
story, 391, et seq.; evident design
and tendency of the work, 392
Smith's illustrations of the Divine go-
vernment, 336, et seq.; on carrying
speculative opinions beyond their cir-
cumscribed limits, 337; caution in
regard to the management of opinions
of a speculative nature, ib.; dangerous
consequences of a licentious specula-
tion on the doctrine of Divine punish-
ment, ib.; author's mode of treating
his subject, 338; real question, whe-
ther there is in the gospel any pro-
visional promise for the finally impe-
nitent, 339; the gospel statement of
the doctrine, 340, 1; heavy responsi-
bility of those who preach a final state
of happiness to the unrepentant,
341, 2; a second pretence urged for
preaching this supplementary gospel,
342; the legitimate authority of the
Christian minister, 343; on the doc-
trine of final restitution, as connected
with the plea of benevolence, 344, et
seq; prevalence of a spurious benevo-
lence, ib.; inquiry if the doctrine was
preached to the faith of the primitive
believers, 346, 7; remarks on the al-
leged superior humanity of the abet-
tors of the system, 348; indefinite ex-
pectations of happiness indulged by
sceptics of contemplative habits, 349;
the author's argument from the infinite
wisdom and benevolence of the Deity exa-
mined and exposed, 540; difference in
the distribution of favours by the Deity
improperly called partiality, 542, 3; man
declared to be wholly the creature of cir-
cumstance, 544; on punishment, ib.; all

punishment not corrective, 545, 6;
author's reasoning from the supposition of
a gradation of desert in good and in
wicked men, 547, 8, 9; his definition of
Divine justice, 550; on the doctrine of
election, 551, et seq.; suggestions to
those who waver in their belief of uni-
versal restoration, 553, 4; indefensi-
ble treatment of the language of Scrip-
ture by theorists, 555, et seq. ; certain
Scripture terms examined, with re-
marks on the plain meaning of Scrip-
tural statements, ib.; on the words
hell and Satan, 562; the doctrine of
universal restoration irreconcilable
with even the indirect intimations of
Scripture in regard to future punish-
ment, ib.

Smoke, valley of, in Iceland, 256
Snorro Sturluston's hot baths, 255, 6
Snow's reply to the Rev. J. Simons,
243, et seq.; his reasons for recommending
a perusal of Mr. Simons's letter, 243;
on the union between Christ and his
Church, 244; on justification and sancti-
fication, &c. ib.

Societies, friendly, Mr. Courtenay's propo
sition for the encouragement of, 440
Sonio people, account of them, 457
Soorajees, Turkish post boys, their rapid
mode of travelling, 101, 2
South Africa, Latrobe's missionary visit
to, 401, et seq.

Spence's introduction to Entomology,
see Kirby

Stanzas on a sick child, 485
Subjects, interesting, Campbell's ser-
mons on, 70, 1

Sulphur mountain in Iceland described,
178, 9

Summary view of the report and evidence
relative to the poor laws, published by
order of the House of Commons, 202,

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Tiger, Mr. Fereira's dangerous encoun-
ter with one at the Cape, 413
Timber, McWilliam's essay on the dry
rot in, 71, et seq.

Timber, annual value of, cut down in
the United Kingdom, 75

Timber of the American back-settle-
ments, 42

Titchbourne, Chidiock, his address to the
populace, prior to his execution, 588, 9;
verses written in the Tower the night be-
fore he suffered, ib.

Tongue of the bee described, 122, 3
Typical relation of the sacrifices, 356

Valley of Smoke, 256

9;

Vaux's domestic pleasures, 61, 2
Vaux's life of Anthony Benezet, 367, et
seq. Benezet's thoughts on education, 368,
on the intellectual powers of the
Blacks, 369, 70; mis-statement in re-
gard to the aid derived from Benezet
by Mr. Clarkson, in his efforts to pro-
cure the abolition of the slave trade,
370; his benevolence to a poor widow in
America during the war, 372

Venning's, Mr. visit to the Russian prisons
of Petersburgh and Moscow, 90,
Versions, Cherpilloud's book of, 61, 2
Vestries, select, 435, et seq.

Virginian slave, contrasted with the English
labourer, 35, 6

Ward's reformation from popery comme-
morated, 275, et seq.; Mr. Eustace's
real opinion of the Italians unfavourable,
278; author's exhibition of the principles
of the Reformation, ib.; serious reflec-
tions on the changes connected with the
ensuing century, 279

Watson's dissertations, 458, et seq.; au

thor's definition of true and false religion,
461; his remarks on faith, as essential to
salvation, 462, 3; on the inutility of
preaching dark doctrines, 463, 4; his in-
consistency, 464, 5; sudden conversion
declared to be a gross imposition, 465;
his opinion of worldly amusements, 465, 6;
estimate of the author's religious opi-
nions, 467

Wilson on the person of Christ, 373, et
seq.; religious opinion sometimes founded
upon defective evidence, 374; defects in
the writer's reasoning, 375; on the
testimony of the New Testament to the
person of Christ, 376; subjects of the
present work, 377; Unitarian hypothesis
of the poverty of Jesus Christ examined
and exposed, 377, 8

Woodland life, its physical effects exhibited

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