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CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight 147 



Smoking Cataract, (the Riukand) of 



Norway 27 



Snow, description of 259 



" Sellers of Italy, trade of 260 



" bouses of the Esquimaux 261 



Solar System, description of 234 



Southampton Railway, description of . 96 



Spectre of the Brocken 62 



Sphinx at Egypt 212 



Steam, familiar description of 274 



" Engine, History of 275 



" As a locomotive power .... 278 



" Boats, invention of 279 



" Progress of, in England .... 280 



Sterotyping, description of 181 



St. Paul's Cathedral, description of. . 202 



" Old Cathedral 228 



St. Peter's at Rome, description of .. 199 



Stonehenge, description of 107 



Storm in the Pyrenees, description of 63 



Strata of the Earth, Table of 44-5 



Strasburg Cathedral, description of . . 201 



Submarine Weighing Machines .... 132 



Sun, the, description of 236 



Suspension Bridges, Menai 193 



over the Avon.. 194 



over the Aire . . " 



" the Monk 195 



" over the Tees . . 192 



Sword Fish, its enmity to the Whale. 120 



Telegraph, Admiralty, described .... 2T1 



Telegraph, Davy's, electrical .... 273 



Thames, description of 82 



' Tunnel, full description of.. 141 



Pago. 



Thames Tunnel, Mode of working at 142 



" Shield used at .... " 



Thebes, Ruins of 226 



Thermometer the, described 262 



Tiber, description of 84 



Times Newspaper Establishment. . . . 170 

 " Printing Machine, description 



of 171-3 



Tombs of the Kings of Aragon 213 



Tower of London, description of .... 230 



Trajan's Column at Rome 209 



Venus, the Planet 238 



Venous System, description of 68 



Vesuvius, description of. 18 



" Eruptions of 20 



" Ascentof. 20 



Vesta, the Planet 243 



Vistula, description of 84 



Volcanic Islands, description of .... 35 



Waterfalls and Cascades. Niagara . . 52 



" PolaPhucha 55 



" Clyde 56 



Waterspouts, causes of 256 



Whale Fishery, full description of .. 110 



" Dangers of 117 



" On the Coast of Ireland 120 



Whales, Description of 110 



" Habits of 115 



Whirlpools 57 



Whirlwinds, causes of 256 



Winds, Theory of 250 



Wreck Weighing Machines, des- 

 cription of 132 



Writing, invention of 162 



