ancients and the writers of the mid- 

 dle ages, Universal Geography of 

 Eratosthenes. 543545; 'Map of 

 the World' of Hipparchus, 545; 

 Geographies, of Strabo, 555 558 ; 

 of Claudius Ptolemams, 558562 ; 

 of El Istachri and Alhasseu, 584, 

 685; of Dicuil, 60S; of Albertus 

 Magnus, 618; Picture of the World 

 of Cardinal Alliaco, 620, 621 ; Plani- 

 Bpheritim of Sanuto, 627, 628 ; Sea- 

 chart of Paolo Toscanelli, 637, 638; 

 Map of the World by Juan de la 

 Cosa, 639 ; World-apple of Martin 

 Behaim, 645, 646 ; Hydrography of 

 Joh. Rotz, 649 ; Variation chart of 

 Santa Cruz, 658. 

 Gerard, his illustrations to the 'Lusiad' 



of Caraoens, 426. 



Germanic nations, their poetry, 397 

 400; love of nature in the Minne- 

 singers, 399, 400 ; their ' Animal 

 Epos,' its genuine delight in nature, 

 401, 402. 



Gibbon, his estimate of the extent of 

 the Roman empire, 548; on the 

 nomadic life of the Arabs as com- 

 pared with that of the Scythians, 

 577, 578 ; 



Gilbert, William, of Colchester, on the 

 compass, 656, 658; magnetic dis- 

 coveries, 717, 718; observations on 

 electricity, 725727. 

 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 662, 663. 

 Giorgione, 446. 



Gobar (Arabian ' dust writing'), 598. 

 Goethe, his fine distichs on the appear- 

 ance of Forster's translation of the 

 Sacontala, 405 ; profound veneration 

 for Nature in his works, 439. 

 Gold-sand, region of, in Northern Asia, 



its locality, 511, 512 

 Goldstacker, Herr Theodor, MS. 

 Notes on Indian Literature, 406 

 408. 

 Gravitation, general discovery of, fi90, 



691. 



Greece, peculiar charm of its scenery, 

 376, 506 ; heightened by its deeply 

 indented shore line, 377, 506. 

 Greeks, infrequency of a poetic treat- 

 ment of nature in their writings, 373, 

 874; mythical treatment of the 

 vegetable world, 377; decay of the 

 true Hellenic poetry in the time of 



Alexander, 378; deep feeling fop 

 nature in the Greek anthology, 379 

 Greek prose writers, 380, 381 

 Greek fathers, descriptions of N* 

 ture in their writings, 393 396; 

 landscape painting, 440 444 ; Greek 

 language, its magical power over 

 all kindred and foreign nations, 471 ; 

 their voyages of discovery, 481 ; 

 intercourse with Egypt, 489, 490, 

 606; mental characteristics of the 

 Greek races,506; their early maritime 

 expeditions, 481, 506, 507; elucida- 

 tion of the myths of the Argonautic 

 expedition, Prometheus, lo, and 

 others, 508511; colonies, 512 

 515; mental and artistical cultiva- 

 tion, 513, 514; important results o! 

 the campaigns of Alexander, 517 

 535, 560; celebrated scientific wri. 

 ters, 550, 551; revival of the study 

 of Greek literature in the middle 

 ages, 622, 623. 



Gregory of Nazianzum, letter of Basil 

 the Great to, 393, 394; his beauti- 

 ful poem ' On the nature of Man,* 

 395. 



Gregory of Nyssa, plaintive expressions 

 regarding nature in his writing*, 

 395. 



Greenland, first colonisation of, &" 

 604606. 



Grimm, Wilhelm, on the Minne- 

 singers, 399, 400. 



Gudrun, old German epos, 399 



Guerike, Otto von, discoverer of the 

 air-pump, 727. 



Guillen, Felipi, constructed the first 

 variation-compass, 658, 672. 



Gunpowder, its invention discussed 

 590, 591. 



Hafiz, Persian poet, 410. 



Haller, his local descriptions, 434. 



Halley, Edmund, theory of four ma$ 



netic poles, 719; on the norlherr 



lights, 719 ; atmospheric currents, 



724. 

 Hamamat, sculptural inscriptions of 



488. 



Happy Islands, of the ancients, 496. 

 Haroun Al-Raschid, curious clock. pr. 



sented by, to the Emperor Frederick 



II., 591," 592. 

 Harriott, Thomas, observations hy, of 



