INDEX. 



Causeways, on basaltine, ii, 47 1 

 Cavendish, Mr. experiments of; iv, 9 

 Carcrns, brief sum- v of foreign, ii, 76; 

 remarkable ones in Mn^b.nd, ib. 83; 

 Ireland, 94 ; in the 1 lebrides, 96 ; at 

 Paris, 1 13 ; in the Crimea, 46o ; Gi- 

 brultar, 4d4 



, ou the utility of, vi, 15 

 Cax-npore, heat at, iv, 7 "> 

 Cajctoti, \Viiiiam, account of, vi, 405 

 Celano, description of tJie lake, iii,, 63 

 Celestial worlds, conjectures on, i, 36 ; 



organization of, i, Ol 

 Crnis, mount, niethoJ of passing, ii, 



413; description of, ib. 415 

 Cerastes, or hooded snake, account of, 



v, 577 



Cerigo, earthquake at, ii, 21 

 Ceylon, land-winds in, iv, 219; ele- 

 phant-hunt in, v, 65* ; trade of, v,128 

 Chtetodon, natural history of the, v, 512 

 Chaldeans, their astronomy, i, 3 

 Chanueleon, natural history of, v, 552 

 Champlain, description of lake, iii, 247 

 Chapman, Capt sweetens sea-water, iii, 



370 

 Charcoal, identity of diamond and, vi, 



150 



Charles, Mr. his aerial voyages, vi, 70 

 Cheddar cliffs, Somerset, described, ii, 



90 



CheltenJiam, description of, iii, 175 

 Chemical affinity, nature of, vi, 132 

 Chemistry, rise and progress of, vi, 1 ; 

 in its infancy, 12 ; uses of, 13 ; pro- 

 posal for the improvement of, 15 

 Cherry laurel, qualities of, v, 246 

 Cherso island, description of, iii, 237 

 ChesapeaJt bay described, iii, 43 

 Cheshire rock-salt, account of, ii, 369 ; 



remarkable storm in, iv, 182 

 Cheviot hi! is, description of, ii, 441 

 Chimborar-o in South America, describ- 

 ed, i, 490 



China, antiquity of astronomy in, i, 5 ; 

 account of the sonorous stones of, ii, 

 686 ; mountains, 427 ; rivers, iii, 12 ; 

 cotton tree, v, 284 ; cultivation of 



.is, v, 10,'; wall of, vi, 480 

 Chinese, their astronomical claims dis- 

 puted, i, 34 ; tradition of the delude 

 among the, 248 ; white copper, vi, 

 279 ; tire, how to make, \ i, j 1 1 



Chios, famous for its wines, v, 75 

 f'lilnriiie, experiments on, ii, 

 Christopher, hills in the isleof St. ii, 433 

 Churchill's river.cflects of cold in,i v, 1 14 

 Cinnamon tree, account of, v, 119 

 Ciitlra mountain described, ii, 4^1 

 Circles on the globe defined, i, 306 

 Civita Turchiimo, ruins at, ii, 258 

 Classijication, systematic, v, 5 

 Cleopatra, death of, v, 580 

 Climates, division of, i,312; varieties, 



iv, 42 : effects ou vegetation, v. 19 

 Clitiimniis, source of the river, iii, 53 

 Clot ks, sympathy in the action of two, 



iv. 547 

 Cipiuls, on the solar, i, 53 ; formation 



tof, iv, 143, 146 

 Cppmif phenomenon seen in the vale 



of, iv, 530 



Coal, nature and origin of, ii, 324 ; ap- 

 plication of gas from, vi, 89 

 mines, of England, ii, 279 ; Ame- 

 rica, 316; Scotland, 324; Ireland, 

 329 ; general description of, 337 i 

 accidents in, 344 



Cobra de Capello described, v, 584 

 Cobham in Surrey, agitation of water 



at, ii, 50 



Coca plant described, ii, 296 

 Cochineal insect described, v, 396 

 Cocoa tree, description of the, v, 118 

 Cod-fish, description of, v, 504 

 Coffee tree described, v, 106; how to 



use, ib. 109 



Cold, effects of severe, iv, 86 ; in Hud- 

 son's bay, 114; at Glasgow, 121 

 Ooldstream in Scotland, storm at,iv,33O 

 Colebrooke dale, description of, ii, 322 

 Cole's cave in Barbadocs, described, ii, 



81 



Coloqnintida described, v, 203 

 Colosseum of Vespasian, site of, iii, 6? 

 Colossus of Rhodes destroyed, ii, 3, vi, 



500 



Columbo, temperature at, iv, 75 ; de- 

 scription of the root, v, 205 

 Columbus, voyages of, iii, 44 

 Columns, account of basaltine, i' 

 Combustion, on spontaneous, vi. 128 

 Comets, doctrine of Pythagoras on, i. 

 8 ; observations on that of 181 1, 114; 

 construction of the same, 130, 132 ; 

 passage of, 138 ; deluge ascribed to 



