430 



INDEX. 



PAGE 



Breeze, evening 309 



morning 308 



of islands 309 



speed of 313 



(See wind.) 

 Bricks for cold feet . , 173 



Brick stoves 174 



Bricklayers cannot work 



in a frost .... 359 

 cover new work with 



straw 359 



Brilliancy 364 



Brine retards boiling . . 119 



tested 361 



Broth cooled by breath 



247, 312 



by convection 247 

 by stirring . . 247 



Bubbles in tea 419 



of boiling water 114 



Bulk for bulk 110 



Burns cured 157 



Burning glasses .... 2 



Caloric 1 



Cambric handkerchiefs 



cool 184 



Cambridge, rain of . . 340 



CANDLES 74 



burn 74 



blue 148 



cotton, not easily 



blown out .... 79 



easily blown out 51, 78 



and rekindled 51, 55 



extinguished .... 79 



flame hot 75 



hollow 76 



pointed .... 77 



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 Candles continued. 



flame purple below 76 

 tends upwards 77 



yellow 76 



gas of 281 



held at a door . . 290 

 hottest above the 



flame 79 



give light 76 



make glass damp 78 

 need snuffing .... 81 



Palmer's 80 



prevent our seeing 



abroad 378 



reflected in a window 379 

 rush, easily go out 79 



smoke 81 



spirt 155 



suddenly introduced 



give pain 365 



wax, need no snuff- 

 ing 81 



Candlestick rags catch 

 fire spontaneously . . 58 



Capillary veins 84 



Captain Eoss 4)4 



Carbon 33, 74 



Carbonate of lime .... 426 



of soda 426 



CARBONIC ACID GAS 37, 



108, 249, 264 

 deleterious 250,264 

 in human bodies 84 

 its presence de- 

 tected 264 



CARBTTRETTED HYDBO- 



GEN GAS 279, 280 



Carpets warm 169 



Carriage wheels catch fire 99 



