L 



the satellites of Jupiter, 703; on the 

 solar spots, 707. 



Heat, gradual investigations of its 

 phenomena, 721 725. 



Hebrews, profound feeling for nature 

 in their most ancient poetry, 373, 41 1 

 415 ; its special at raction for the 

 nations of the West, 412 ; its charac- 

 teristics, 412; its bold and faithful 

 descriptions, 412 413. 



Hedschaz, Arabian tribe. (if, 572, 577. 



Heeren, on the circumnavigation of 

 Libya, 488 ; on Madeira, 497 ; on 

 Ophir, 500; writings of Ctesias, 

 521 ; extent of the lloman empire, 

 548. 



Hellenic. See Greece, Greeks. 



Helmont, Johann Baptiste von, one of 

 the founders of pneumatic chemistry, 

 728, 729. 



Heraclidavtheir return into Peloponne- 

 sus, 512. 



Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabice, 

 landscape paintings discovered at, 

 442, 443. 



Hernandez, physician to Philip II., 

 652. 



Herodotus, account of ancient paint- 

 ings, 441 : delight taken by Xerxes 

 in the great plane-tree olLydia, 461; 

 his notices of the memorial pillars of 

 the victories of Ramses Miamen, 

 486 489 ; notices on the circum- 

 navigation of Lydia, 489; of the 

 expeditions and conquests of Ramses 

 Miamen, 486 488; regarded Scy- 

 thian Asia as a portion of Europe, 

 505; myth of Aristeas, 507; accu- 

 rate knowledge of the configuration 

 of the Caspian Sea, 509, 560; his 

 description of the Indian races, 530 ; 

 canal completed by Darius Hys- 

 taspes, 539. 



Herschel, Sir William, his discovery 

 of the two innermost satellites of 

 Saturn, 712. 



Hesiod, his ' Works and Days,' 374 ; 

 doctrine of four ages of the world, 

 621. 



Hicetas of Syracuse, his knowledge of 

 the earth's rotation on its axis, 469. 



Himerius, the Sophist, Eclogues of, 

 379. 



Hippalus, 539. 



Hipparchus, his isthmus-hypothesis, 



489, 643, 644; the originator of 

 astronomical tables, and the disco- 

 verer of the precession of the equi- 

 noxes, 545, 555. 



Hiram, ruler ot'Tyre, 499, 500. 

 Hirt, on the origin of the French style 



of gardening, 390. 



Historical events which have extended 

 the horizon of the physical contem- 

 plation of the universe, 470. 

 Hiuen-thsang, early Chinese traveller, 



512, 6-25. 

 Hiungnu (a Turkish race), migrations 



of, 554, 571. 



Hobbima, landscapes of, 447. 

 Hoces, Francisco de, discovery of Cape 



Horn, 642. 

 Hofi'meister, Dr., girth of the trunk of 



the Cedrus deodvara, 534. 

 Hogeda, Alonso de, 614, 660, 677, 679. 

 Homer and the Homeric songs, their 

 beautiful and sublime descriptions 

 of nature, 375, 376, 399400. 

 Hooke, Robert, 691, 715 ; correct views 

 on the rotation of the earth, 723 

 724; observed the existence of ni- 

 trous particles in the air, 730. 

 Humboldt, Alexander von, works by, 

 quoted in various notes : 

 Ansichten der Natur, 454. 

 Asie Centrale, 482, 501, 506, 508 

 51 1,517, 522523, 526, 534, 

 637, 544, 556, 559, 578, 584 

 585, 604, 625, 660. 

 De distributione Geographica, 



Plantarum, 523, 524. 

 Essai Geognostiqne, sur le Gise- 

 ment des Roches, 732. 



Politique, sur la Nouvelle 



Espagne, 524, 648 649, 658. 

 Examen Critique de 1'Histoire de 

 la Geographic, 450, 480, 483, 

 489, 497, 499, 501, 516, 528, 

 531, 544, 556, 560, 562, 585, 

 690,597, 601, 608612, 619, 

 621, 627, 631, 637, 639, 640 

 647, 653, 655, 659, 660663, 

 665668, 672, 677, 678, 680. 

 Recueil d'Observations Astrono- 



miques, 550. 



Relation Historique du Voyage 

 aux Regions equinoxiales, 371, 

 480, 493, 498, 524, 609, 640. 

 668, 718, 723. 

 Vues des Cordilieres, 125. 



