CXXX1V INDEX. 



Groves, ancient veneration of, p. 96. 

 Gudrun, an old German poem, p. 33. 



Guerike (Otto von), the inventor of the air-pump, and the first who observed 

 electric repulsion, and artificially elicited electric light and sound, p. 340, 341. 



Hafiz, the Persian poet, p. 42. 



Halley, his theory of terrestrial magnetism, declination charts, magnetic voyages, 



and conjecture of the connection of the Aurora with magnetism, p. 332, 333. 



His just views of trade-winds and monsoons, and work on the latter, p. 338. 

 Hamilton (Terrick), notes to his translation of Antar, p. 48. 

 Heat, investigations on radiant, p. 336. 



Hebrew poetry of the Scriptures, p. 4348 ; Note 71 . Of modern Jews, Note 70. 

 Hellas, Hellenic, &c. See Greece, Greek, &c. 



Helmont (Van) first used the term "gas," his " gas sylvestre," p. 343. 

 Herodotus regards Scythian Asia as part of Europe, p. 137. Knew the Caspian to 



be a closed basin, p. 141. 

 Herschel (Sir John), sudden brightening of rj Argus, p. 322. 



(Sir William) discovered two of the satellites of Satnrn, p. 325. 



Hesiod, his " Works and Days," p. 8 ; Note 7. His Theogony, p. 8 ; Note 8. His 



dislike of maritime life, p. 139. 

 Hipparchus, p. 175, 176. 

 History of the physical contemplation of the universe, or formation of the 



science of the Cosmos, 101359 ; Notes 141545. Method according to which 



it is treated, p. 110, 111. 

 Hodge, painter of tropical scenery, p. 5, 25. 

 Homer and the Homeric songs, p. 9, 33 ; Notes 10, 11. 



Hooke, beginning of the undulatory theory of light, and of the observation of in- 

 terferences, p. 329, 330 ; Note 507. View of the trade-winds, p. 338 ; Note 



522. Geological views, p. 349, 350. 

 Hot-houses, remarks on, p. 94 ; Note 124. 

 Humboldt (Alexander von), quotations from his other works: Asie Centrale, 



Note 204 ; Examen Critique, Notes 449, 457 ; Prolegomena, Note 143 ; Mythic 



Geography of the Greeks, Note 154 ; Relation Historique du Voyage aux 



Regions e"quinoxiales, Note 373. 

 (Wilhelm von) compares the poem of Lucretius with an Indian poem, 



p. 16. On the connection between poetry, science, philosophy, and history, 



Note 23. Discussion on the different and less favourable results in regard to 



intellectual cultivation which would have been likely to follow if Carthage had 



conquered Rome, and the Arabs Christendom, p. 228. 

 Huygens first discovered a satellite of Saturn, p. 325. On the nebula in Orion, 



p. 327, 328 ; Note 503. Polarisation of light, p. 328, 329. 

 Hygrometers, their invention, progressive improvement, and use, p. 339. 

 HykSGS, p. 123, 208, 209. 

 Hyperboreans, meteorological mythus of the, p. 141 ; Note 204. 



Jacquet, note on Marco Polo, Note 393. 



Iceland, its discovery by Naddod, p. 233. Discovery of North America, and settle- 

 ments there and in Greenland from Iceland, p. 233235. Discussion of the 

 hypothesis of Iceland having been first settled, or at least visited, by Irishmen 

 from America or from the Feroe islands, p. 237. Visit of Columbus, p. 240; 

 Note 374. 



Idyle or Idyllic poetry, p. 12. 



