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INDEX. 



Hughes, T. M., 5, 7, 54-5 6 > 6 3' 6 5- 

 Humidity, II, 18, 22, 27, 30, 56, 67-74. 

 Hutton, Dr. James, humidity and dryness, 



thermometer measure of, first pointed out 



by, 17. 

 Hygrometer, 14-18, 36. 



J 



job, chaps, xxxvi. and xxxvii. , vi. 

 Journals Meteorologic, 6, 16, 17, 28, 67-70. 



Leste winds, 34-39, 58. 



Levadas, 56. 



Lisboan meteorology, 9-12, 20-26, 71-73. 



Lisbonian discovery of Madeira, 6. 



M 



Madeira a health station, 57, 64. 

 animal life in, 53. 

 Climate and Meteorology, by 



Dr. J. A. Mason, 13-18, 36, 



58. 



cloudiness of, 3, 23, 74. 

 coaling station, 56. 

 equability of temperature in, 



21, 25. 



first view of, 1-5. 

 geographical position of, I, 9, 



67. 



guide-books to, 13, 14, 79. 

 Leste wind of, 33-36, 39, 45, 58. 

 medical authors on, 13. 

 meteorologic, Introduction to 



the inquiry, 1-8. 

 meteorological cycle of a day 



and days, 8-12. 

 meteorological cycle of a year, 



13-20. 

 Meteorological Journal in, 8, 



67, 70. 

 meteorology compared with 



Lisbon meteorology, 8-12. 

 meteorology confirmed by the 



Spectroscope, n, 12, 25. 

 poetic, 63-66. 

 rainfall in, 24, 39, 74. 

 remarkable cloud in, 37, 38, 



43, 44, 49, 50. 



Madeira remarkable rocks, Frontispiece, 



4, 38. 

 source of abundant watery 



vapour in, 30-32. 

 vegetable life in, 51-56. 

 watery vapour in, II, 17, 1 8, 



22, 25, 30. 



winds of Madeira, 24, 74. 

 Madeiran climate, 7, 13, 14, 25, 33, 67, 



74- 



favourable to vegeta- 

 tion, 7, 51, 56. 

 conflagration, 6, 7. 

 country, 5. 

 lady poetess, 65, 66. 

 poem by T. M. Hughes, 5, 54, 



56, 64, 65. 

 Malta, 28, 29, 6 1. 



Manoel Thomas (" Insulana" by), 6. 

 Mason, Dr. J. A., 13-18, 22, 34, 36, 57, 



58, 63. 

 Meteorological anomalies in Madeira, 3, 



7, 9, ii. 



observation at Funchal, 19. 

 observation of days at Lis- 

 bon, 71-73. 

 observation of days at 



Madeira, 67-70. 



Meteorology, annual condensed, at Jerusa- 

 lem, 76. 

 Lisbon, 75. 

 Madeira, 74. 

 Madrid, 78. 

 Scotland, 77. 



Milne -Home, Esq., David, on climate of 

 Malta, 28, 29, 61, 62. 

 on improving climates, 

 61, 62. 



N 



Nordjenskiold, Baron, on the Aurora, 46. 







Observatory, Meteorologic, in Funchal, 



1 8, 70. 



Ocean Flower, by T. M. Hughes, 5, 64, 65. 

 Ocean vapour, 30, 31, 44. 

 Ogier, M. Pegot, on The Fortunate Islands, 



