INDEX. 



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Henbane, description of the black,v,256 

 Herbarium, preparation and uses of it, 



v, S > 1 



Helicon, description of, 408 

 Herculanentn, destruction of, i, 335; 

 iliMo.ir\ of the ruins of, ii, 229 237 

 Htradta, remarkable cave at, ii, 76 

 Hercynian forest described, ii, 202 

 Herring, natural history of, v, 528 

 Herschel, Dr. his astronomical disco- 

 veries, i,63 107 ; recapitulation of, 

 111 ; on the changes of the stars, 

 113; observations on the comet, 

 114; on the planet Venus, 178 ; op? 

 lunar volcanoes, 183 

 Hertfordshire, storm in, iv, 184 

 Herelius, his astronomical discoveries, 



i, 30 



Hiero, on the galley of, vi, 518 

 Hieroglyphic writing, on, vi, 342 

 Hindoos, their invocation of the Gau- 

 ges, iii, 1 1 



Hipparchus, his discoveries in astro- 

 nomy, i, 12; geography indebted 

 to, 14: the inventor of maps, 297 

 Holkham, whirlwind at, iv, 234 

 Holland, inundations in, iii, 285; on 



the embankments of, 379 

 Holywetl in Flintshire, described, iii, 



175 



Hooker, Mrs. mode of painting, vi, 430 

 Honey dew, cause of, iv, 153, note 

 Horace, account of the villa of, iii, 72 

 Horizon, definition of the, i, 306 

 Horns of an enormous size, ii, 174, 



found in a tree, v, 315 

 Horse, natural history of the, v, 682 



racing, antiquity of it, 685 



Hoitus siccns, advantages of an, v,321 

 Howard, Mr. on meteoric stones, iv, 



469 



Hnbtrr, M. his observation on bees, v,4 



Hudson's bay, remarkable well in, iii, 



1 4.> , description of, iv, 39 ; effects of 



cold in, 1 14; river described, iii, 42 



Human bodies, preservation of, iii, 121, 



142 



Hnmber, description of the, iii, 36 

 lluinliuldt, on tin- l itilitness of stare, 

 i, 190 ; on the mines of South Ame- 

 rica, ii, 297 



Hum mucks, account of basaltic, i,293 

 Hnmminy bird, description of, \ 



Hunter, Dr. on fossil bones, ii, 1 82 ; on 



the climate of Jamaica, iii, 107 

 Huntingdonshire, storm in, iv, 244 

 Huntsman's steel, discovery of, vi, 293 

 Huron, description of the lake, iii, .' i<i 

 Hurricanes, general causes of, iv, 203 j 

 in the East Indies, 235; on the In- 

 dian coast, 238; in Huntingdon- 

 shire, 244; at Brighton, ^46; in 

 Northamptonshire, 252 

 Hiittoitiun theory of the earth, i, 232 

 Hintf/ens, his discoveries, i, 30; on the 



planetary worlds, 36 

 Hydrogen gas, in the ptmosphere,iv,22 

 Hydrostatics, principles of, iii, 385 

 Hygrometers, construction of, iv, 15 

 Ice, on the molecules of, ii, 282; on 

 the effusion of the polar, iii, 336 ; 

 extent of the northern, iv, 46; on 

 the formation of, .32 ; in the arctic 

 circle, 103; fields of, iv, 109, 111; 

 islands, account of, Qb 

 Icebergs, description of, iv, 102 

 Icelionses, account of natural, ii, SI 

 Iceland, on the volcanoes in, i, 446; 

 bones of an elephant found in, ii, 

 192 ; hot springs in, iii, 119 

 Ice valleys in S \visserland, ii, 415 

 Ichneumon insect, described, v, 42O 

 Ida, description of mount, ii, 408 

 Idria, quicksilver mines in, ii, 329 

 lerre in France, phenomena of the, 



iii, 9 

 lynus fatui, general account of, i v, 49 * ; 



observed in England, 498 

 Illuminations, on spontaneous, vi, 107 

 Imitative arts, knowledge of the an- 

 cients in the, vi, 408 

 Inchanted baths in Africa, iii, 162 

 Incombustible cloth, nature of, ii, 391 

 Indian coast, hurricanes on, iv, 238; 

 rubber, account of, v, 293; ink, 

 composition of, 3o9: ocean, winds 

 in the, iv, 187; corn, account of, v, 58 

 Indians, on the fables of the, i, ;"> ; an- 

 tiquity of letters among the, vi, 37 



" p!;ait described, v, 287 

 Indus, course of the river, iii, lo 

 Industrie, ruins of the ancient city of, 



ii, 9 



lnr<i<ialitics of the earth, i, 286 

 Inylebrovyh, Yorkshire, height of, ii, 

 445 



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