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AMERICAN RE-ISSUE, FROM THE ENGLISH PLATES.

THE

PENNY MAGAZINE

OF

THE SOCIETY

FOR THE

DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

1838.

NEW YORK:

J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL,

BOSTON, REDDING & CO.: PHILADELPHIA, ZEIBER & CO.: BALTIMORE, SHURTZ & TAYLOR:
CINCINNATI, ROBINSON & JONES: CHARLESTON, AMOS HEAD.

AND THE CHEAP PUBLICATION OFFICES GENERALLY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

1846.

INDEX TO VOLUME VII.

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ABORIONES in the British Colonies-Coffee-houses, Turkish, 229

South Africa, 73, 84
Advertising, primitive mode of, 139
Agriculture, French,-employment of
women, 105

Alabaster Ornaments, the manufacture
of, 443

Ale and Beer Drinking in England in
the 16th century, 230
Allegorical Painting and Sculpture, 305
Alphabets for the Blind, 111
America, discovery of, 187
American Desert, the, 280
American Travellers and Travelling, 23
Anecdotes of a Blind Person, 71
Animal Instinct, remarkable instance
of the absence of, 283
Antwerp, commerce of, 345
Arab Faith in Medicine, 211
Arabian King and the Poet, 244
Aretie Winter, 132

Armenian Society of Lazarus, 117
Art of Educating, 11
Artificial Gems, 450

Astrolabe, Sir Francis Drake's, 211
Athens, the school of, 389

Aye-Aye, the, 425

Commerce, influence of, iu repressing
wars, 472

Comparative Anatomy, 472, 477
Conducting Power, difference of, 427
Constantinople, the streets of, 401
Cookery in Persia, 432
Coronation of James I., 186
Coronations, English, 251
Cosmetics, on, 467
Curling, the game of, 478

DEER-HUNTING in North America, 407
Demosthenes, 445, 433
Dial-plates, on the enamelling of, 434
Diamond-works of Sumbhulpore, 447
Dinner in the 15th century, 196
Discovery, training the mind to skill in,
344

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Dreams, superstitious belief of the Mus-Law of Settlement, the old, influence of,
lims in, 322
Duck-shooting on the Niagara river,
358

EARWIG, the, 316

Ecce Homo," the, by Corregio, 177
Educated Artisan, the experience of an,
130

BACK'S. Captain, expedition to the Education, obstacles to, 360; De Witt

Polar Seas, 310, 318

Badger, the, 245

Clinton on, 364

Elephant, the, sagacity of, 316
Erasmus in Englaud, 59, 82, 98, 110,

119

Exercising the Faculties, necessity of,

232

Baka, perpetual fire of, 44
Ball held in a Coal-mine, 259
Balads: Old English-Robin Hood,
163, 238, 241, 273, 301, 313, 321, 342,
269; English Romantic-Sir Cauline
-The Boy and the Mantle, 404; FACTORY Children, education of, 475
The Childe of Elle-Glasgerion, 428; Farm Produce in America, depredators
The Heir of Linne, 465; The Children

on, 195

in the Wood, 474; Little Musgrave-Feet, coverings for the, 172, 180, 188
The Friar of Orders Gray, 489
Bark-bread in Norway, 156
Barry's Pictures: Orpheus, 65; Grecian
Harvest-home, 92; The Victors at
Olympia, 103, 113; Elysium, or the
State of Final Retribution, 148, 153
Bee hives, cottage improvements in, 171
Bee-hunting and Bee-keeping in Ame-
rica, 146

Fever, sources of, 304
Filberts, 444

Fish, consumption of, in England, for-
merly, and at the present time, 175,
183, 191

Bees, management of, on Mount Hy-
mertus, in Greece, 400
Belgium, the small farms of, 354
Benefactors of Mankind-Vincent de
Paul, 4
Bmingham and Manchester, statistics

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Flemish Farm, daily distribution of
labour on a, 187
Food, condiments in, 112
Forethought and Independence, 240
Fossvöllum, cataract at, in Iceland, 449
Fotheringay, 393

Fruits intended for Man, 156
Fur-trade of Canada, 50
Furs, supply of, 107
Furze, the, or Whin, 488

GEMMI, pass of the, and the Baths of
Leuk, 217

Geographical Science, 392
Goat, the, utility of, to man, 355
Going to Bed in India, 11
Gold. in manufactures, examples of the
divisibility of, 402
Greenland, colonization of, 385
Greenwich Hospital, naval gallery or
painted hall in, 1
Gypsies, English, 17; Continental, 114

HAREMS, Eastern, 484
Harmuir, the, 49
Herculaneum, Indian, an, 102
Hever, castle and village of, in Kent, 284
Canada, and other British Colonies in Hippopotamus and Crocodile, whether

CAFFEI Rainmakers, 104

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Liquorice, on the cultivation of, 179
London, industry of, 11; fires in, 387;
public improvements in, 457
London and Birmingham Railway, 329,|
349, 356

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Rich and Poor, relative positions of, 132
Richard I., Coeur de Lion: interesting
discoveries in the Cathedral of Rouen
in Normandy, 412
Roadside Groups, 352
Robert, Leopold, 355

Rural Districts, necessity of instruction
in. 347

Russia, luxury of, 211

ST. OMER, town of, 473
Samphire, the, 411

MAGNETIC Pole, the, 56
Manufactures, the locality of, influence Sandwich Islands, education in the, 223
of circumstances on, 101; physical
circumstances contributing to the pro-
gress of, 343

Marriages, the number of, effects of
seasons of scarcity on, 279
Medical Skill, 344
Mill-stones, the manufacture of, in Ger-
many, 414

Morals and Manners, influence of com-

n.erce upon, 308; connexion between
the natural features of a country and
its, 316

Morpeth Cattle-market, 278
Mother-of-Pearl, on, 351
Mourning-women in the East, 476
Mulberry Leaves, substitute for, in the

leaves of the Ramoon-tree, 215
Music for the Blind, 219
Musical Snuff-boxes, on, 398
Muslim Saints, 316

NATIONAL GALLERY, pictures in: "Ecce
Homo," by Correggio, 177; Raising
of Lazarus," 185; West's, 236
Naval Gallery (Painted Hall) in Green-
wich Hospital, 1

Naval History, British, 116, 135; the
Spanish Armada, 157, 340
Neilgherry Hills, 271

Nelson's Monument, Yarmouth, 233
Newcastle, improvements in, 359
New Zealand, 325, 417
North Cape, the tenant of the, 190
North-west Passage, discovery of the,

154

Norway, polite manners of the lower
classes ín, 91; irrigating land in, 219
OBERLIN, Jean Frederic, 220
Holland, education of the people in, Orang-Outan, the, 41
and its effects, 216
Homer, 133, 141

Con-Honey-taker, 408

Chemistry, domestic, 6; water, 21; do- 312

Oxalic Acid, and Salts of Lemon, 483
Oxen of South africa, 145

Horse, the, in the Malayan Archipelago, PACIFIC, mounanous islands in the, 156
Palestine, the sea-coast of, 281
Pambouk-Kalesi, petrified cascade of,
317

mestic waters, 54; fire, 62; boiling, 94 Howard, John, 212
China, education in, 286; invention and Hungarians, national manners of the,
present state of printing in, 350; vac- 199

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Sardis, 433

Savage and Social Life, virtues of, 156
Savings' Banks for Corn, 104
Sennaar, 190

Shawl-goat, the, in Europe and Austra-
lia, 266

Sicily, salt-works in, 309
Silk, substitutes for, 143
Snow, effect of, on crops, 308
Society, characteristics of, 103
Sounds, natural language of, 432
Stage-coaches, in Great Britain, number
of travellers by, 244
Steam Navigation, 235

Sunday-hiring in Northumberland, 268
Susquehanna River, the, 438

TAPESTRY, 431
Tarai, the, 93
Tartars, the, in Hungary, 180
Tax-gathering in Egypt, 472
Thames Water, 139
Timor, agriculture of, 300
Tortoiseshell Ornaments, on the manu-
facture of, 299

Toussaint L'Ouverture, 121
Trade, restrictions on, 56; Foreign, 260
Trees, 372

Truffle-hunting, 89
Tulips, on the commercial value of, in
the 17th century, 455
Tunis and Tripoli, 12

UNITED STATES, the coal-region of the.
227; the English language as spoken
in the, 278

VERMONT, the copperas-mines of, 397
Victoria Regina, the, 20
Violin, a cheap, 246

WALES, a tour in, 161, 201, 289
War Expenditure, real effects of, 235
Washington, character of, 451
West's Pictures in the National Gallery

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