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farmers and artisans, 43; difficulties
to be encountered by the poorer classés
of settlers, 44; back-settler's ideas of
elegance, 45; rapid progress of the
emigrant population of the American
states fowards a nation of powerful
energy, 48.

Birkbeck's letters from Illinois, 169,
et seq.; his account of his own situation,
ib.; his prospects, 169, 70; state of reli-
gion among the backwood's men, 171, 2
Bishop of London's charge to his clergy
in 1818, 569, et seq.; his panegyric of
his clergy, 569; his picture of the pre-
sent times, 570; danger of the church,
and its enemies, 571; errors and in-
consistency of his Lordship's reason-
ing, 572, 3; his charge against the
dissenters, 574; tacitly condemns
the Bible society, 574, 5; 'letter
from lord Treasurer Burleigh, to Arch-
bishop Whitgift,' 575.

Black Agnes of Dunbar-castle, her admir-
able intrepidity, 322
Black Castle of Opium, 114
Blolsteinn, or the stone of sacrifice, 191
Boors, Dutch, at the Cape, character of, 409;
five refractory boors, execution of, 410,
11

Booth's lexicon of the primitive words

of the Greek language, 469, et seq.;
character of the present work, 469;
specimens of definitions, 470
Border antiquities of England and

Scotland, by Walter Scott, 305, et seq.
Borrows's two sermons on reformation
from Popery, 482, 3; remarks on the
subjects of persecution, 483; nature of
persecution, 483, 4

Bothwell castle dungeon, 319, 20
Breidafiord, islands of, 253

Breidamark Yokul, or the mountain of ice, -
181, 2

Bristol jail, its wretched stale, 86, 7, 8
Brougham's letter to Sir Samuel Ro-

milly, on the abuse of charities, 358,
et Iseq.; change made by the Lords in the
original bill in regard to the appointment
of commissioners, 358, et seq.; change in
regard to the powers of the commissioners,
360, 1; charities excluded from the
operation of the bill, 361; abuse of the
funds of Pocklington school, 362; qua-
lifications of the paid commissioners con-
sidered, 363; remarks on party op-
position to ministers and its results,
365, et seq.

Brown's discourses on the Lord's supper,

584, 5; duty of Christians to cultivale
cheerfulness of mind, 58

Brown's Psyche, a poem, 263, 4; extract,
ib.

Burleigh, lord treasurer, letter of, to
Archbishop Whitgift, on the conduct
of the clergy, 575.

Bursa, formerly Prusa, its present state,
population, &c. 115

Buxton on prison discipline, 82, et seq.;
causes of the alarming increase of
juvenile delinquency, 88; admirable
management of the interior of Ilchester
jail, 84, 5, 6; wretched state of Bristol
jail, 86, 7, 8; Mr. B.'s comparison of
the two jails, 88, 9; proceedings of the
commillee of the society for the improve-
ment of prison discipline, &c. 89,90;
Mr. Venning's visit to the Russian pri-
sons of Petersburgh and Moscow, 90, 1
Byron's, Lord, Childe Harold, Canto 4th,
46, et seq.; reflections on the death of the
Princess Charlotte, 51; an Italian even-
ing, 52, 3; apostrophe to the ocean,
53, 4

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Cæsarea, the ancient capital of Cappa-

docia, 106; its miserable state, ib.
Cameron, Richard, his first preaching among
the Annandale men, 317

Campbell's sermons on interesting sub-
jects, 70, 1; subjects considered, ib.;
on progressive improvement, 70
Cape of Good Hope, its great importance
as a settlement, 402

Carlisle's, Dr. description of the endowed
grammar schools in England and
Wales, 528, et seq.; great accuracy of
the author's topographical dictiona
ries, 528; his unsolicited appoint.
ment to the secretaryship of the
commission for investigating the en-
dowed school and charities, ib.;
author's proofs of the necessity of a public
investigation of the management of en-
dowed schools and charities, 529; ar-
rangement of the present work, ib.;
its various topics, 529, 30; foundation
of St. Paul's school, 530; account of
Dr. John Colet, the founder, 530; regula
tions concerning the scholars, 531 ; ' what
shall be taught, 531, 2; articles read
to parents offering their children a
scholars, ib.; Erasmus's detailed descrip
tion of this institution, written to Justur
Jonas, 533; admirable liberality of the
excellent founder, 534; his death and
burial, ib.; further particulars respecting
the school, scholars, admission, &c. 535,
et seq.; bequest of Mr. Stock, for the
support of one scholar at this school,
536; laudable management of the funds
of the institution, 537; list of the high
masters, ib.; present masters, ib. et seq.;
eminent persons educated in St.
Paul's school, 538

Celtic tribes, their funeral monumenti, 30%

Chalmers's, Dr. reasoning in his evidence
and authority of Christian revelation,
examined by Dr. Mearns, 505, et seq.
Charge of the Bishop of London to his
clergy, in 1818, 569, et seq.
Charities, abuse of, Brougham's Letter
to Sir Samuel Romilly on, 355
Cherpilloud's book of versions, 61, 2
Childe Harold: Canto the fourth, 46,
et seq.

Childe Harold, Hobhouse's illustrations

of the fourth canto of, 323, et seq.
Christian Caffre woman, remarkable ac-
count of one, 408, 9
Christian faith, Miss Sinclair's letter on
the principles of, 77, 8
Christianity, Rowlatt's sermons on the
doctrines, evidences, and duties of,
245, et seq.

Christian slaves at Algiers, account of their
treatment, 479, 80

Christ, Person of, Wilson's popular
inquiry into the scripture doctrine of,
373, et seq.

Clergy of Iceland, their great superiority
over their brethren in other countries,
261, 2

Colel, Dr. John, founder of St. Paul's

school, detailed account of him and of the
foundation, 530; et seq.

Collyer's, Dr. lectures on scripture doc-
trine, 151; et seq.; evil of an indis-
criminating severity of criticism,
151; mankind most beneficially
taught by persons whose intellect is
" on a level with their own, ib.; dif-
ferent treatment to be observed by
critics, towards original writers and
mere compilers, 152; profound learn-
ing, &c. not essential to the ordinary
instruction of mankind, or to the at-
tainment of an extensive popularity,
io.; peculiar eircumstances that may
tend to the exposure of a weakly.
evident
founded popularity, 153;
improvement in the Dr.'s style, ib.;
crisis of trial for a young writer, ib.
et seq; subjects of the present lectures,
154; the Dr.'s plan, ib.; the authority
and claims of revelation, ib. et seq. ; sal-
vation through faith, 156; the duty of
submitting system to the Bible, 157:
propriety of a popular writer's ab-
staining from the appearance of philo-
sophizing, 158; objection to certain
modes of expression used by the
author, 158, 9; and note.
Colquhoun on the law and gospel, 30, et
seq.; subjects treated of, b.; the law
considered as a rule of life, 32; difference

between the law and the gospel, ib. s folly
of resting on a violated covenant, 33
Commerce of Iceland, 262;
Committee, select, third report of, on the
poor laws, 420 ; et seq.

Congo expedition, &c. 445, et seq.; in-
fluence of the mysterious on the hu-
man mind, 446; conjecture as to the
probable consequences of a successful
expedition into the interior of Africa,
447; unknown state of the interior of
Africa, 449; present state of the in-
quiry in regard to the Niger, ib.; ex-
istence of the chain of the mountains
of the moon uncertain, 450; answer
to some objections as to the identity
of the Niger and the Zaire, ib. ; deeply
interesting account of Cranch, the na-
turalist, 451; his unsubdued ardour in
his researches, 452; his death at Em-
bomma, 453; sailing of the expedition,
454; some account of Porto Praya,
ib.; arrival at Malemba on the African
coast, 455; visit from the negroes, ib. ;
the Congo enters the Zaire, 456; the
Sorio people, 457; appearance of the
river, 458; collection of human bones,
518; account of a black man named
Simmons, ib.; consultations at the court
of Embomma, 519; peculiar mode of
interment, 520; cataract of Yellala,
521 government in Congo, 523: sla-
very, ib.; crimes, ib.; curious ordeal,
524; religion, 525; calamitous state
of the party, 325, 6; character of the
Congoese, 527; state of the highest
part of the river that was seen, ib.;
probability of its issuing from some
lake, 528

Corban, its meaning among the Jews,
352

Corinth, its situation, 267, 8 ; literature,ib.
Courtenay's treatise on the poor laws,

202, et seq.

Cox's lives of the more eminent fathers
of the first three centuries, 264, 5;
character of the work, ib.; author
liable to Tertullian's, censure against
the Bishop of Rome, 265
Cranch, the naturalist, account of his
life, 451, et seq.; his ardour in his
favourite study, ib. ; his great attain-
ments, ib.; his dangerous researches
on the sea coast, 452; employed to
collect for the British Museum, ib. ;
his religious sentiments, and death at
Embomma, in Africa, 453
Curiosities of literature, by M, D'Israeli,
587, et seq.; account of Chidiock
Titchbourne, 588; his address to the

populace, before his execution, 589;
verses written in the Tower, on the night
before he suffered, ib. the author's at-
tachment to the Stuarts, and hatred
of the Puritans, 590; secret history
of Charles I. and Queen Henrietta,
591; character of the Queen, ib.; her
engagement with the Pope and King of
France, to educate her children in the
Catholic faith, 591, 2; dismission of her
French household by the King, 592; the
Duke of Buckingham, 592, 3; Felton
the assassin, 593; propositions found
in his trunk, when he slew Buckingham,
593; Felton's manly behaviour before
the council, 593,4; death of Dr. Lambe,
594; Alexander Selkirk, and De Foe's
Robinson Crusoe, 595; Steele's account
of Selkirk, 595, 6; prototype of Ro-
binson Crusoe's man Friday, 596;
charge against De Foe unfounded, ib. ;
mendicants called Tom o' Bedlams, ib.;
song of one, 596, 7

Cyclopædia, biblical, Jones's,' 266, et
seq.

Death-watch, cause of its noise, 128, 9
Delinquency, juvenile, causes of the
alarming increase of, 83

Dictionaries, topographical, of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by Dr. Carlisle,
their adinirable accuracy, 528
Discipline, prison, report of the com-
mittee of the society for the improve-
ment of, 82, et seq.

Dissenters, their care of their poor, 442;
relief afforded to parishes by their
charities, 443

Dissertations, Watson's, on various sub-
jects, 458, et seq.

Divine truth, Thornton on the best

means of promoting the spread of,
71

Domestic pleasures, by F. B. Vaux, 61,2
Druses, a remarkable peopie dwelling be-
tween Tripoli and Acre, 110
Dry rot in timber, M'William's essay
on the origin and cure of, 71, et seq.
Durant's character of Barnabas; a ser-
mon, 79, et seq.; the purposes of the
Almighty effected by the use of means,
79, 80; ministers of the gospel have a
strong claim on the prayers of their hear-
ers, 81; hearers should be tender of their
minister's reputation, 81

Elders, under the Kirk sessions, election and

duties of, 435, et seq.

Elibank tower, anecdote of its lord, Sir
Gideon Murray, and his plain daughters,
321

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Elldborg, the fortress of fire, its crater,
&c. 190

Endowed grammar schools in England
and Wales, Dr. Carlisle's concise de-
scription of them, 528, et seq.
English Consul at Algiers, his humane con-
duct, 476

Erzeroum, city of, 230
Eusebius, Falconer's case of, in regard
to Mr. Nolan's charge of his muti-
lating Scripture, 563, et seq.
Eustace's private opinion of the Italian cha-
racler very unfavourable, 278
Evidence, Christian, Mearns's princi-
ples of, in examination of Dr. Chal-
mers's argument in his Evidence, &c.
of the Christian Revelation, 505
Evening, Italian, Lord Byron's descrip-
tion of, 52, 3

Expedition to explore the river Zaire,
narrative of, 518

Eyafiord, a district of Iceland, en-

lightened state of its inhabitants, 174

Falconer's case of Eusebius of Cæsarea,
563, et seq.; Mr. Nolan's charge
against the bishop, 563, 4; his tran-
slation of Eusebius inaccurale, 565;
passages alleged to have been erased,
567; improbablity of the truth of the
charge, ib.; bishop accused of muti-
lating St. Mark's gospel, 568
Fathers of the first three centuries, Cox's
lives of the most eminent, 264, 5
Fawcett, memoirs of. 240, et seq.
Felton, propositions found in his trunk when
he slew the Duke of Buckingham, 593;
his firm behaviour before the council, 594
Foe, De, charge against him by Dr. Beattie,
relative to his Robinson Crusoe, un-
founded, 596

Forest residence, gloominess of it, 41
Foliage, by Leigh Hunt, 484, et seq.
Fualdes, M. circumstances attending his
murder, 59, et seq.

Fungi, the effects as well as the causes
of the dry rot in timber, 73

Gallio, remarks on his conduct, 268, 9
Geysers, their eruptions described, 26,
et seq.; remarkable mode of obtaining
premature eruptions, 29

Gnadenthal, a Moravian settlement, 407
Godwin's life of the late Mr. Richard
Morris, 160, et seq.; reason of his
entering the army, 161; becomes the
subject of religious impressions, ib.; in-
curs on that account the ill-will of his
comrades, ib. et seq.; is cold-burned,
162; himself and some comrades pre-
vented from attending the meeting-house

by their officers, 165, 4; obtain leave
from the war-office to attend a dissenting
place of worship, 164; he is cold-burned
a second time, for addressing a religious
meeting ib.; gains the notice of Lord
and Lady Robert Manners, 165; or-
dered into military confinement for ab-
sence from duty, ib.; tried by court mar-
tial, 166; makes his own defence, ib. ;
sentenced to be picketed, ib.; his manly
firmness of conduct, ib.; receives his
discharge by the interference of Lord R.
Manners, 167; becomes pastor of the
baptist church at Amersham, 168; erects.
a cotton manufactory, ib.; his death, ib.
Golownin's captivity in Japan, 379, el
seq.; author appointed by Russia to
explore the Kurile Isles, &c. 380; is
seized with six others by the Japanese,
391, 2; humanity of the natives
towards the captives, 383; curious ac-
count of their examination, 384, 5; their
fruitless attempt to escape, 386,7; fur-
ther remarkable kindness of the Ja-
panese to them, 388

Gospel truth, Pike's consolations of, 173
Gossamer webs, 126; great height at
which they are found, 127
Grasshoppers kept in cages by the Greeks,
for their song, 129

Greece, modern, a poem, 598, et seq.;
its character, ib.; the exiles from the
Morea, 598, 9, Greece under the Turks,
600, 1

Gresk language, short introduction to,
468, 9

Greek lexicon of primitive words, by

the Rev. J. Booth, 469, et seq.
Greeks, modern, of Asia Minor, 103
Groenekloof, a Moravian settlement in
South Africa, its population, &c. 406、

Hackett's narrative of the expedition
"which sailed to join the South American
patriots, 575, et seq.; character of the
war in South America, 576; slate of
the independent armies, 577,8; barbarity
of the royalists, 578; wretched clothing
of the independents, 579; their aversion
to foreign aid, ib.; conditions of en-
trance into the patriotic service, 580;
five corps of British volunteers that sailed
for South America, their uniforms, equip-
ments, &c. 580,1; failure of the expe-
dition, and the misfortunes and dis-
persions of the party, 582, 3
Hawksley's protestant reformation com-
memorated, 275, er seq.; author's sub-
ject, 276; duty of duly appreciating the
principles of the protestant reformation,
277; principles of protestant noncon-
formity neglected in the present day, ib.

.

Hebraica, Principia, 471, 2
Henderson's Iceland, 21, et seq.; strik-
ing peculiarities of the country, ib. et
seq.; nature of Dr. H.'s mission, 23;
welcomed by the islanders, 24; first
view of the dire effects of subterraneous
fires, ib.; disadvantage occasioned by his
late arrival, ib.; plan of his intended
journey, 25; plain of Thingvalla, the
ancient supreme court of justice, ib.;
description of the eruptions of the Geysers,
26, et seq.; the new Geyser, 27, 8; sin-
gular mode of obtaining premature ex-
plosions, 28, 9; desolate state of the
country north east of Holum, 174;
valley of Eyafiord, ib.; excellent cha-
racter of its inhabitants, ib.; their
grateful emotions on being able to
purchase copies of the New Testament,
ib.; exemplary conduct of the Sys-
selmand, 175; Icelandic mode of spend-
ing the Sunday, ib.; dispute between
two distant churches, as to the right to
an old copy of the Scriptures, 175, 6;
author's interview with Thorlakson,
the translator of Milton, 176; high
state of morality in the north of Iceland,
ib.; hospitable mode of providing for
reduced families, 177; boiling springs
at Reykium, ib.; description of the
prodigious stream of lava occasioned by
the eruplions of 1724 and 1730, 177,
8; the tremendous Sulphur Moun-
tain, its crater, black liquid pool, &c.
179; various striking travelling ad-
ventures, ib.; terrific wooden bridge
over an impetuous torrent, ib.; remark-
able rope bridge still more tremendous,
180; phenomenon of a profane fa-
mily, ib.; Breidamark Yoku!, the
mountain of ice, 181, 2; its rapid
progress towards the sea, 182; author
passes a dangerous torrent flowing from
beneath it, b.; another remarkable
moving ice-mountain, 183; account
of the desolating explosion of Skaftar
Yokul, 184; its striking appearance
at a distance, ib.; leprosy prevalent
in Iceland, 185; eruption of Kotlugia
Yokul, 186; Winter residence at Reykia
vik, 187, 8; mode of passing the long
evenings, 188; extract, 189; surtar-
brand or mineralized wood,190; crater
of Eildborg, or the fortress of fire, ib.;
Snaefell, 191; description of a mountain
disruption, 192; discovery of Thorolf's
court of justice, 194; blotstein, or stone
of sacrifice, ib.; islands of the Breida-
fiord, 253; extensive bed of surturbrand,
253, 4; range of mountains illumined
by a midnight sun, 255; hot bath of
Snorro Sturluston, 255, 6; valley of

smoke, 256; curious account of the nau-
tical mice of Iceland, 257; cavern of Surt-
shallir, 258; theroaring mount, 259; con-
nexion between its noise and the eruption
of jets of steam and water, 259; striking
superiority of the Icelandic clergy
over those of other countries, 261,2;
commerce of Iceland, 262
Henrietta, Queen of Charles the First, her
character not understood by Hume,
591; engages with the Pope, and the King
of France, to educate her sons in the catholic
religion, ib.; the King's dismissal of her
French household, 598

Hobhouse's illustrations of the fourth
canto of Childe Harold, 323, et seq.;
contents of the work, 323; remarks
on the author's boast of having dis-
covered the cause of Tasso's imprison-
ment, ib.; his abuse of quotations
occurring in his remarks on the burn-
ing of Rome by the Goths, ib. et seq.:
the devastations under Genseric, Viti-
ges, and Totila, 329, et seq.; his criti-
cism of Muratori, Gibbon, and Tira-
boschi examined, 332, et seq.
Hottentot rooman, account of one extremely
corpulent, 414

Hunt's foliage, 484, et seq. ; author's ub-
scure intimations of his principles,
485; beautiful stanzas on a sick child,
486; poetical extract from Words-
worth, 487, 8; Wordsworth's just esti-
mate of the true use of the ancient
mythology, 488; character of the au-
thor's poetic talents, 489; his Invo-
cation, as characteristic of his style,
ib.; further extract, 491; the Nephe-
liads, a song, 491, 2

Iceland, Henderson's journal of a resi-
dence in, 21, et seq. see Henderson.
Ice mountain in Iceland, progressive move-
ment of one towards the sea, 181, 2
Idiot boy, remarkable propensity in one to
bees, 125

Ilchester jail, admirable management in the
conducting of it, 64, 6; contrasted with
Bristol jail, 88, 9

Illinois, Birkbeck's letters from, 169, et
seq.

Inns, American, east of the mountains, 39
Inquiry into some curious subjects of
history, &c. by T. Moir, 385, et seq.
Insane world, 55, et seq.; design of the
writer, ib.; extract, 56, et seq.
Insects, motions of, 125; have no voices,
128; their noises, 128

Introduction to the Greek language, 468,
9

Iron-wood, African, its great strength,
412

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Japanese mode of interrogating prisonETS,
384,5

Japan, Rickord's account of Golownin's
captivity in, 379

seq.;

Japanese, their great humanity to some
Russian captives, 383, 388
Jerram on the impolicy and tendency of
the poor Jaws, 202, et seq.
Jews, their stated sacrifices, 354, 5
Jones's biblical cyclopædia, 266, et
description of Corinth, 267, 8; its litera-
ture, 268; character of Gallio, 268, 9;
remarks on the Christian church, its
institutes and ministers, 269; inquiry
whether the present order of Christian
churches is consonant to that of the primi
tive churches, 270; author's definition of
conscience, ib.

Journey from Virginia to the Illinois, by
Morris Birkbeck, 33, et seq.
Juvenile delinquency, causes of the
alarming increase of, 83

Kinneir's journey through Asia Minor,
Armenia, and Koordistan, 97, et seq.;
highly advantageous situation of
these provinces, 98; wretched state
of their government, ib.; author's
plan, 99; visits Zerni George, 100;
present state of Nice, 101; description
of eastern posting, ib. ; expeditious tra-
velling of the Sourajees, 101, 2; 'an-
thor encour.lers a mail Dervish, 102;
Asiatic Greeks, character of, 103; en-
campment of Turkmans, 104; their
character, ib.; Angora, ib. its va
rious changes, ib.; neighbouring
country not tributary to the Porte, îb. ;
independent government of Chapwan
Oglu, ib.; wretched state of the an-
cient Cæsarea, 106; Tarsus, 107;
ruinous state of Scandaroon, 107, 8;
Antioch, 108; its ancient walls very
extensive, ib.; Latakia, 109; san-
guinary revolution at Aleppo, ib. ;
account of a peculiar people called Ancy-
ras, ib.; the Druses of Mount Libanus,
110; fine appearance of Nicosi, in Cy-
prus, 111; present state of the island,
ib.; Caraman, 113; Konieh, ib.;
phenomenon of a Turkish attempt to

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