INDIA'. 



trre clrsrribrd, v, 1,1 ; of 

 tli. !!.: 

 Jirffzrt, on sea ami land, i 



;>!, destruction of, iv, 



Bridget, remarkable ones in South 

 Ameri , u, ' .;<>; natural one in Vir- 

 ginia, il itraordinary one 

 ;it >. !i ..I'haiiscn, ni, ~'l; long one 

 over the i . at Paris, SO; of 

 Allier, 169; of bo.;t*, vi, 517; 

 ruinous ones, 



llrittnl wells, description of, iii, 174 

 Britain, metallic mines of, ii, 31H 

 Sri-rham, Devon, remarkable well at, 



iii, 85 



Bronze metal, composition of, vi, 280 

 Broselu, boiling well at, iii, 148 

 Bronahton, in Lancashire, quarries at, 



ii,U9 



Tludit, warm baths at, iii, 168 

 Buenos Ayres, the mines of, ii, 296 

 Biijf'on, singular hypothesis of, i, 208 

 Buildings, how to preserve high, iv,308 

 Bnlial, natural history of the, v, 588 

 Bull-ffflit, description' of, v, f>79 

 Bull-finch, natural history of, v, 628 

 Burkhardt, Prof, his observations, i,l30 

 Unmet'* theory of the earth, i, 255 

 Burthens, force of moisture in raising, 



iii, 4 10 



Butter-dew, phenomenon of the, iv, 152 

 Butterfly, natural history of, v, 400 

 Buxtw: wells described, iii, 170 

 Coder Idrit in Wales, height of, ii, 442 

 Cadiz, earthquake at, ii, 39 

 Caiar, his survey, i, 301 

 Cajcput tree, on the oil of, v, 209 

 (.':d not, account of, vi, 51 1 



ith tree described, v, 51 

 ( 'alc.bria, earthquakes in, ii, 3,62,72, 

 Calais and Dover, union of, iii, 301 

 Calamine, properties of, vi, 263 ; ob- 

 servations on, ii, ~2l '") 

 Calamus, properties of, v, 169 

 Calf ', the art of, vi, 437 



Caldeira of St. Michael described, iii, 



114 



Calendar, reformation of, i 14 

 i . observations on the golden, vi, 4 

 to ill South America, destroyed, 

 ii, 9 



i 



i.d, wliirl- 

 \\ifiil at, iv, i 



. description of a rrmurkai 



Camps, anticnt Roman, 



( 'antida, heat, and cold in, iv, .:, nt< . 



Canal, the 1'Yenrh rmal, iii, .; 



nrirkable ones in l,ng!a 

 ('anti/x, on the eonstructioii of, iii, 379 

 Canella tree, described, v, 

 Cannon, on the making of brass, vi, 286 

 Canari/ bird described, v, 631 

 Canaries, volcanoes in the, i, 469 re- 

 markable cave in, ii, 80; vines of, 

 v, 74 

 Canterbury cathedral, experiments on 



the tower of, i\ , 67 

 Caoutchouc, properties of, s. 

 Carbonic acid, nature >,, \\ 

 Cardamon tree, described, v, 2o(i 

 Capillary tubes, observations on, iii, Ki? 

 Carmarthenshire, storm in, iv, ,'H ( J 

 Carpathian mountains, beightlof,ii,409 

 Carp, natural history of, v, 

 Cascade on the Anio, iii, 66; marble, 

 219; i Dalmatia, '2i\ ; Yordaa ni 

 Yorkshire, 223; of (ilamma. 

 Lawdoor, 26 1 



CasearillOf properties of, v, 1 ."> I 

 Caspian sea, description of the, iii, 23 1 

 Cassava tree, description of, v, . r > I 

 Cassini, account of Dominic, i, 32 

 Cassia tree, description of, v, 140 

 Cassowary, description of the, v, 6l6 

 Castletoiiiit Derbyshire, described, ii,su) 

 Cantor, on the changes of the star, i, 1 1:3 

 Castor in Norfolk, anticnt camp at, ii, 



821 



Catania in Sicily, destroyed, ii, 6 

 Cataracts of Scumander, iii, 51 ; the 

 Nile, 213 ; Niagara, '> 1 :> ; I 

 survey of various, 2 19 ; at ScarThau- 

 sen, 221 ; in Norway and Sweden, 

 222 ; Lidford in Dcvon.il> ; in Cum- 

 berland, 224; on the Shannon, ik ; 

 in America, c _ 



Catulluss villa, site of, iii, ? 1 

 Caucasus, description of the mountains 



of, ii, 424 

 Causeway, account of the giant's, ii, t; .> 





