506 



INDEX. 



Blood, detection of, 497 



globules of the, 498 



Bochara, Emperor of, 147 



Bogota, account of an earthquake at, 379 



Bolivar, General, 382 



Borax, new variety of, 483 



Borelli, computation of, 101 



Boruret of iron, 487 



Bostock, Dr., his analysis of water, 412 



Botanic garden, the, 291 



Botany, lectures on, 440 



Bourbonne, waters of, 68 



Brackenridge, Mr., his description of the 

 Indians of the Missouri, 330, 342, 343, 

 854,367,368 



Brande, Mr., on the active principles in 

 opium, &c., 167 



on the chemistry of metals, 436 



Breakfast, in Queen Elizabeth's time, 285 

 Brockedon, Mr., his account of a new me- 

 thod of projecting shot, 431 

 Bromiteofgold.489 

 Buff, Dr., experiments by, 490 

 Buffalos, herd of, 368 

 Bullock's description of Cincinnati, 368 

 BuraLsky Shaman, an Indian juggler, 335 

 Burnett, Mr., his lecture on sensitive 



plants, 434 

 Burton, Mr., drawings by, 122 

 Butezena, leader of the Turks, 356 

 Butterflies, migration of, 499 



Cabrera, Dr., on the peopling of America, 



141, 151, 152, 153 

 Caesar, on the population of Britain, 94] 

 Calel, a Cacique, 325 

 Calmucs^ particulars concerning the, 145, 



149, 342, 343, 344, 361, 363, 366 

 Canary Islands, climate of the, 123 

 Candles, made from human fat, 23 

 Canicular cycles, remarks on the, 442 

 Cannon, ancient, raised from the sea, 226 

 Cappa, village of the, 327 

 Carbazotic acid, composition of, 489 

 Carbon, iodides of, 482 

 Carbonic acid, agency of, 262 

 Carbonic acid gas, in mineral waters, 71 

 Caribs, an Indian tribe, 339 

 Carlisle, Sir A., on acid substances, 28 

 Carlsbad, waters of, 65, 69, 73, 75 

 Carthage, population of, 92 

 Cast iron weights, tinning of, 470 

 Caterpillars, method of destroying, 300 

 Chactaws, an Indian tribe, 333 

 ChampoUion, Mr., 122 

 Chapman, Mr., on the displacement of 



ships, 427 

 Charles IV., mineral springs discovered 



by, 73 



Chechemecas, particulars respecting the, 



319,359 

 Chelsea water-works, 407 

 Chemical Science, 220, 472 



" action, method of measuring. 



473 



discoveries, medal for, 216 



Chemistry experimental, contributions to, 



371 

 Cherokees, the, 331, 339 

 Chevreul's acid oi itidigo, 490 

 Chinese ships, 360 

 Chiribichenses, an Indian tribe, 339 

 Chiwachi, an Indian village, 382 

 Chloride of lime, 4S4 

 Chlorine, presence of, in the black oxide 



of manganese, 154 

 Chromic acid, preparations of, 488 

 Clarke, Dr., 16 



— his description of a tribe of 



Indians, 328 



Dr. Edmund, on botany, 440 



Clement, M., experiments by, 168 

 Clinton, Dewitt, governor of the state of 



New York, 245 

 Clowes, Mr , the printer, 184 

 Coal, figured variety ot^ 131 

 Coccus Lanigera, 299 

 Colden, Cadwallader, his account of th« 



Five Nations, 346 

 Colombia, earthquake in, 379 

 Colon, on the diseases of the, 156 

 Columbium, its presence in iron slag, 478 

 Columbus, life of, 327 

 Complaints, fashionable, 19 

 Cookery, art of, 17 

 Copper, salts ofj decomposition of, 487 

 silver contained in, 225 



Corpulency, comments on, 16, 268 



Corpulent persons, 24, 269 



Corrosive sublimate, its solubility in setheri 



489 

 Cortez, anecdote of, 348 

 Cowe, an Indian town, 334 

 Cowper, Mr., his improvements in prluting, 



174,183 



's printing machine, 191 



Crabb, Roger, the hermit, 283 

 Creation, works of the, 119 

 Creeks, or Muscogulges, 331 

 Cromium, brown oxide of, 226 

 Cronian Lectures on the Colon, 156 

 Crystalline state, change of, 470 

 Cumberland, Mr., on air balloons, 29 

 Cumming, George, his account of a new 



hygrometer, 402 

 Cyrus, army of, 90 



Daedalus, story of, 31 



