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INDEX. 



Ink fish, description of the, v, .V>fi 

 Jnk.t, various kinds of, vi, 385 



f, clat-Mtic.iiion of, v, 342, S79 

 Intestinal worms described, v, 376 

 Inundation of Ilir Thaim s li, 147 

 Innndatians, general account of, iii, 283 

 Ionian school, doctrines of the, i, 7 

 Ipecacuanha plant described, v, 200 

 Ireland, ou the bogs of, ii, 184; fossils 

 in, 174; on the fossil elk of, 203; 

 copper mine in, 277; mineralogy 

 of, 326; mountains in, 446; on the 

 lakes in, iii, 2*6, 246 ; on the tem- 

 perance of, iv. 

 Iris, theory of the, iv, 506; of the lunar 



and solar, 528 



/row, in lavas, i, 512 ; superiority of 

 Swedish, ii, 277 ; in North America, 

 315; in Ireland, 328 ; filings, mag- 

 netic, iv. 370 ; on the Siberian, 484 

 Iron tree, formation of the, vi, 327 

 Iron works, in North America, ii, 316; 



at Colebrook Dale, 322 

 Irridescent arches described, iv, 526 

 Ischia, description of the island, i, 348 

 Isinglass, preparation of, v, 537 

 It lands, thrown up suddenly, i, 495 ; 

 formed of bones, ii, 195 ; formation 

 of coral, iii, 291 ; warmer than con- 

 tinents, iv, 39; of ice, in the sou- 

 thern hemisphere, 90. 

 Isola Bella, description of, iii, 239 

 I sola Madre, account of, iii, 240 

 Isthmus, between Calais and Dover, 



iii, 301 

 Italy, on the temperature of, iv, 49; 



winds prevalent in, 191 

 Jalap bindweed, description of, v, 190; 



medicinal qualities of, 191 

 Jamaica, earthquake at, ii, 6 ; moun- 

 tains of, 433 ; the temperature of, 

 iii, 107 ; meteor seen at, iv, 457 ; 

 pepper tree of, v, 125; logwood in, 

 v, 289 



Japan, on the volcanoes in, i, 464 ; mi- 

 neral productions of, ii, 2S7 ; moun- 

 tains in, 427 ; description of, iii, 305 ; 

 paper tree of, v, 282 

 Jam, insalubrity of, iv, R4 ; poisonous 



plants in, v, 2*79 



Jin a, St. de Port, description of, ii, 420 

 Jerusalem, ruins and present appear- 

 ance of, vi, 519 

 Jesuits bark described, v, 146 



Jezzo, on the straifs of, iii, 305 

 Jocox? shrike, description of, v, . r >88 

 Johns, St. near Keswick, described, 



iii, 2S4 

 Jorn/lo, the volcano of, i, -t*' 



, elements of the planet, i, 

 I >s ; view of the heavens from, 

 193 ; eclipses of the satellites of, 208 

 Jinn, on the mountains of, ii, 416 

 Kadxi, or paper tree described, v, 212 

 hatca, volcanoes in, i, 465 ; hot 

 .springs in, iii, l6l 



Kentucky, state of the province, iii, 40 

 Kepler, on the discoveries of, i, 25 



, or scarlel dying insect, v, 398 

 Kfi-i/n Bryn in Wales, described, ii, 444 

 Kh inn seen wind, account of, iv, 222 

 Kian Ku, in China, account of, iii, 12- 

 Kilkenny in Ireland, cavern at, ii, MI 

 Kincardine, on the peat mosses oi, 

 Kiiir/, Mr. his theory of the deluge, i, 



261 



Kingston, in Jamaica, temperature of, 

 iii, 111; variations of heat at, iv, 75 

 Kircher, his visit to Etna, ii, 3 

 Kirhag river, cataract on, iii, 224 

 Kist vaens, account of, vi, 50."> 

 Kite, invention of the electrical, iv, 3 05 

 Knight, Dr. his invention of magnets, 



iv, 388 

 Konigsberg in Norway, account of, ii, 



284 



Krabla in Iceland described, i, 4 :>~> 

 Labyrinth of Crete, ii, 77 ; remarkable 



one, vi, 477 



Ladoga lak described, iii, 232 

 7,r///-bird, natural history of, v, 400 

 Lago Maggiore, account of the, iii, 233 

 l.iii/nna lake, in Italy, iii, 238 

 Lakes, description of picturesque, iii, 

 50 ; Vadimon, 55 ; the Lucrine, 56 j 

 Avernus, 61 ; Fucinus, 63; periodi- 

 cal, 80; Zirknizer, 97 ; bituminous 

 at Trinidad, 150 ; general survey of, 

 231; in Great Britain, 243; parti- 

 cular, 253, on the salt, 313 

 l.nii'i.i of Thibet, residence of, ii, 42 

 Lamas in South America, description 



of, v, 267 



Lancashire, water spout in, iv, 265 

 iMncasler, winds at, iv, 193 

 Land and sea breezes, iv, 225 

 jMiids, on the formation of new, iii, 2*93 

 Language, ou the notation of, vi, 359 



