CXXXV1 INDEX. 



Languages, their place and influence in the history o^the physical contemplation 

 of the universe, p. 107109. Ethnological studies, and philosophical investi- 

 gations respecting language, rare in antiquity; their few and slight begin- 

 nings, p. 141, 161 ; Notes 201, 246. Influence of the wide extension of a lan- 

 guage in uniting nations, noticed by Pliny, p. 184; Note 285. 



Las Casas, his manuscript history recently discovered, and his accusations against 

 Amerigo Vespucci discussed, Note 457. 



Lasscn, his work on Indian antiquity, and remarks on Indian poetry in reference 

 to nature, p. 37, 38. 



Leibnitz, his Protogaea, p. 349. 



Lepsius, notices of Egyptian chronology by, p. 122, 123 ; most southern extension of 

 the monuments of Ramses Miamoun, p. 124, Note 161 ; on the syllabic alpha- 

 bet, p. 127. 



Lieu-tscheu, a Chinese writer on the art of landscape gardening, p. 97. 



Lister, Martin, early correct views and advances in fossil geology, p. 348. 



Log for measuring a ship's way, date of its first introduction, p. 259 ; Note 405. 



Longitude, method of determining the, at sea, and stimulus given thereto by the 

 desire to determine the place of the Papal line of demarcation between the 

 Spanish and Portuguese claims ; attempts to employ the magnetic declina- 

 tion and inclination for the attainment of this object, p. 281,282; Galileo 

 proposes the occultations of the satellites of Jupiter, p. 318 ; Note 488. 



Longus, pastoral romances, p. 14 ; Note 16. 



Lucan, description of a druidical forest, p. 20. 



Lucilius, poem on Etna, p. 20 ; Note 34. 



LucretiuS, p. 16, 17. 



Ludius a Roman landscape painter, p. 76. 



Lully, Raymond, his Arte deftavegar, p. 258, 259. 



Lusiad of Camoens, p. 5759. 



Lyktonia, geographical mythus of, p. 119. 



Macpherson's Ossian, p. 36. 



Madeira, early knowledge of, p. 131. 



Magnetic line of no variation first observed by Columbus, p. 278281. 



Magnetism, terrestrial, its advances during the period of the oceanic discoveries, 

 p. 278-283; Notes, 432, 434. Gilbert's investigations and writings, p. 331, 

 332. Halley's theory, charts, and expeditions, p. 332, 333. Modern antarctic 

 expeditions for the advance of the knowledge of, and desire expressed for 

 farther researches on a great scale, p. 333335 ; what is accomplished and 

 accomplishing, Note 514 bis (Editor's additional Note.) 



Magellan, voyage to the Pacific, p. 270. 



Magellanic clouds, first knowledge of the, by Europeans, p. 289 ; known to the 

 Arabians, p. 289, 290. 



Mahabharata, (Indian poem) p. 16, 38. 



Mandeville, Sir John, his travels, and their influence in the middle ages, p. 67,254. 



Marius, Simon, his discovery of Jupiter's satellites, contemporaneously with and 

 independently of Galileo, p. 316 ; Note 484. Described the nebula in Andro- 

 meda, p. 327. 



Martianus Mineus of Madaura, an ancient writer on astronomy much regarded by 

 Copernicus, p. 309. 



Materia medica, knowledge and study of the, by the Arabians and Indians, p.214, 

 218, 219. Notes 328, 341, 343. 



