INDEX. 



J!la, description of the lake of.iii, 241 

 Balaclava, in the Crimea, described, 



ii, 453 

 Jiulbeck, temple of Ildiopolis or, vi, 



H'7 



Baldu-iii, Mr. liis aerial voyagr, vi, 7(3 

 Balloons, construction of, vi, 80 

 Halls, account of blazing, iv, 42.5 ; ob- 

 servations on fire, ib. 460 

 Balsam tree, description of, v, 77 

 Jiultic sea, on the waters of, iii, 312 

 Banana tree, described, v, 53 

 Banian tree, account of the, v, 45 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, anecdote of, iv, 87 

 Baobab, or calabash tree, described, v, 



61 



Barbadoes, remarkable caves in, ii, 81 

 Barbary, earthquakes in, ii, 40 

 Bordello, site of the antieut, iii, 73 

 Bark, different kinds, v, 146 

 Barometer, principles of, iv. 25 j de- 

 scent of, 143 



Barrows, account of, vi, 506 

 Basaltcs of Vesuvius, i, 354 

 Basaltic hummocks described, i, 293 ; 

 columns, general account of, ii, 471 

 B*tavia, unhcalthiness of, v, 84 

 Bath, description of the city, iii, 171 

 Baths, inchuntcd ones of Africa, iii, 162 

 Beccher, his character, vi, 11 

 Bee, natural history of, v, 421 

 Beech, letters found in one, v, 314 

 Beet root, mode of extracting sugar 



from, v, 86 

 Bejncos, peculiar bridges in South 



America, ii, 436 



Belemnites, description of, ii, 151 

 Bell metal, composition of, vi, 286 

 Ben y ore, description of the promonto- 

 ry of, i, 273 

 Beni Abbess, in Algiers, described, ii, 



428 



Besaiifon, remarkable cavern near, ii,82 

 Besselrif yhant in India, described, ii, 



447 

 Bethesda, observations on the pool of, 



iii, 142 

 Beuly Frith, in Scotland, described, 



iii, 273 



Birds, classification of terrestrial, v, 

 337 ; aquatic, 338 ; natural history 

 o v, 585 ; migration, 640 

 JBifKmiwMf fountain at Cracow, iii, MM 



Blackbird, natural history of, v, 623 

 Black jack, ou the properties of, vi, ] 4, 



246 



Blanc, height of Mount, ii, 411 

 Blancliard, the oil-rial voyages of, vi, 



71, 77 



lllastinf/ rocks, method of, ii, 273 

 Blende, nature of, vi, 246 

 lilind persons, their quickness of per- 

 ception, iv, 545 



Blue colour of the sky, cause of, iv, .0 

 mountains of Jamaica described, 



ii, 433 



Boa, description of the great, v, 573 

 Bogs in Ireland, description of, ii, U'4; 



origin of, iii, 226 

 llohan Upas, on the, v, 279 

 Bo/^iu^-springs, general account of, iii, 



104 

 Bolognian stone, properties of, ii, 385 ; 



phial, nature of, vi, 167 

 Bolsena, cape, describee!, iii, 241 

 Bombs, construction of, vi, 238 

 Bvnes, account of remarkable, ii, 152; 

 enormous ones in Siberia, 178; fos- 

 sil, 1 82 ; general history of, 1 89 ; is- 

 lands formed of, 195 

 Bonoiiitt, remarkable light seen at, iv, 



418 

 Bvrrotcdale iu Cumberland, described, 



iii, 261 



Borysthenes, present state of the, iii, 2 1 

 Bostonin America, earthquake at, ii,44 

 Botany, particular divisions of, v, 1 j 



systems of, 6 

 Bothnia, temperature of the gulph of, 



iv, 33 

 Bourbon, volcanoes in the isle of, i, 



477 ; river in America, iii, 39 

 Bonrget in Savoy, lake of, iii, 236 

 Botey coal, origin and properties of, 



ii, 339 

 Boy It, anecdote of, vi, 8 ; character, ib. 



10 ; discovers phosphorus, ib. 1 13 

 BrachwuHs, visited by IMhngoras, i, 7 

 Bradley, Dr. discoveries of, i, 33, 43 

 Braminx, astronomy of the, i, 34 

 Brass, preparation of, vi, 260; of the 



autients, on the, ib. -? .' 

 Braybrook, Northamptonshire, storm 



at, iv, 453 



Brazil, mineral productions of, ii, 

 302 



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