GENERAL INDEX. 



537 



Mountains, Storms upon, ii, 440. 



Travellers overwhelmed 

 in, ii, 441-2. 



Plant Life upon, ii, 449- 

 50, 452-54. 



,, Pasture Region on the 

 Higher slopes of, ii, 

 461. 



Ranges of Temperature 

 upon, ii, 454. 



Artificial Arctic Cli- 

 mates upon High, 

 due to elevation, ii, 



257. 



., Difficulty of cooking at 

 great elevations, ii, 

 457-8. 



,, Penetrating Nature of the 

 cold at great ele- 

 vations on, ii, 456. 

 Game Animals at great 

 elevations on, ii, 459 ; 

 iii, 302-4. 

 Wild Sheep upon high, 



ii, 460; iii, 300. 

 Mountain-Tracks of great Rivers, 



ii, 465. 



Mouse, The Arctic, ii, 318. 

 Mowing Machines, Re-appearance 

 of marks made by, iii, 258. 

 Muddy Water more infected by 

 mosquitoes than clear, 

 ii, 152. 

 Mummies, Ancient Egyptian, i, 



378-9. 

 Musk Ox, The, ii, 307. 



Fossil, in England, ii, 



308. 



as a survival from prime- 

 val times, ii, 308. 

 Myna Bird (of India,) The, iii, 325. 

 ,, ,, as a talking pet, iii, 325. 

 Myopia, or short sightedness among 

 city children, ii, 12. 



Nachtigal, Dr. Gustav, on scene at 



a desert wall, i, 409. 



Napier, General Sir Charles, on 



sudden floods on the 



Indus, ii, 335. 



Napier, General Sir Charles, on 



war operations in the 



Indus Region, ii, 536-7. 



Nares, Capt. Sir George, R.N., on 



migrations of geese in the 



Arctic Regions, ii, 388. 



on open spaces beneath the 



Arctic Snows, ii, 314. 

 ,, on the Polar Hare, ii, 319. 

 on the influences of great 

 cold on the human 

 system, ii, 339-40. 

 ,, on the Moonlight of the 



Arctic "Night, ii, 357. 

 National Glory, Immortality of the 

 traditions of, i, 384-85. 

 Natural History, Vast field for re- 

 search in the Arctic 

 Regions, ii, 249. 

 Nature, Obliterating the works oi 



man, i, 41-44, 203-4. 

 Only reconstitutes, but never 



destroys, iii, 4-5. 

 ,, works automatically through- 

 out the ages, ii, 196. 

 Self-Regulation by, and the 

 theory of continual inter- 

 ference, ii, 196. 



Objections to theory of con- 

 tinual interference, ii, 

 197. 

 Continuity of the laws of, 



ii, 192-93. 

 Naval Supremacy of Great Britain, 



The, ii, 565. 



,, The only sure basis 



of a great Colonial 

 Empire, ii, 565. 

 of Britain, Produced 



the fall of French 

 power in America, 



ii, 565- 



Nessmuck on the Wanton Destruc- 

 tion of American forests 

 and game, ii, 122. 

 Net Fishing, iii, 476, 479, 500-1. 

 Under ice, iii, 502-3. 



New comers to the Tropics, Theii 

 apparent immunity to heat, 

 i, 152, 160. 



