r 4 



Cassius, Mount, the probable ' amber 

 coast of the Phoenicians, 492, 493. 



Castilian heroic ages, impulses of, 

 421. 



Castor, Antonius, botanical gardens 

 of, 563. 



Catlin, on the language and descent of 

 the Indian tribe of the Tuscaroras, 

 609. 



Caucasus, Grecian myths respecting, 

 508. 



Celto-Irisb poems, 402. 



Cervantes, his Don Quixote, and Ga- 

 latea, 423, 427. 



Choeremon, his remarkable love of 

 nature compared by Sir William 

 Jones, to that of the Indian poets, 

 380. 



Chaldean astronomers and mathema- 

 ticians, 532, 533, 544. 



Charlemagne, Arabian presents sent 

 to, 591. 



Charles V., letter to Cortez, 647. 



Chateaubriand, Augusts de, 431 434. 



Chemistry, pneumatic, dawn of, 729 

 731 : chemical knowledge of the 

 Romans, 562, 563; of the Arabs, 

 581, 582,589. 



Childrey, first observed the Zodiacal 

 light, 712. 



Chinese, their pleasure-gardens, and 

 passages from their writers on the 

 subject, 462 464 ; antiquity of their 

 chronology, 475, 476 ; warlike expe- 

 dition to the Caspian, 553, Roman 

 embassy to China, 554, 555; early 

 use of the magnetic needle, 559, 

 628 ; of moveable types in printing, 

 623. 



Chivalric poetry of the thirteenth cen- 

 tury, 400. 



Christianity, results of its diffusion in 

 the eximnsion of the views of men, 

 in their communion with nature, 

 392; its humanisation of nations, 

 567, 568. 



Chrysostom.his eloquent admiration of 

 nature, 396. 



Cicero, on the golden flow of Aristo- 

 tle's eloquence, 381 ; his keen sus- 

 ceptibility for the beauties of nature, 

 383, 384, 385; on the ennobling 

 results of its contemplation, 566. 



Cimento, Accademia del, scientific re- 

 searches of, 721728, 



Civilization, early centres of, 475,"476, 

 478, 484 



Classical literature, why so termed, 

 548; influence of its revival on the 

 contemplation of nature, 622 624. 



Claude, Lorraine, his landscapes, 447, 

 454. 



Claudian, quotation from, on the domi- 

 nion of the Romans, 567. 



Colceus, of Samos, his passage through 

 the pillars of Hercules, into the 

 Western Ocean, 514, 515, 517. 



Colchis, Argonautic expedition to, 508, 

 509. 



Colebrooke, on the epochs of the In- 

 dian mathematicians, 555; on the 

 inoense of Arabia, 574; Arabic 

 translation of Diophantus, 596. 



Colonna, Vittoria, her poems, 419. 



Columbus, peculiar charm lent to his 

 delineations of nature, 420; their 

 religious sentiment, 420, 421 ; their 

 beauty and simplicity, 422; his 

 acute and discriminating observation 

 of nature, 422, 423 ; his dream on 

 the shore of Veragua, 423 ; letter to 

 Queen Isabella, 435 ; on the land of 

 Ophir, 501; visit to Iceland, 611, 

 612; died in the belief that the 

 lands discovered in America were 

 portions of Eastern Asia, 612, 613, 

 641 ; made use of the writings of 

 Cardinal Alliacus, 623, 626; his 

 letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, on 

 the coast of Veragua, 626; on his 

 knowledge of the log, 633 ; scientific 

 characteristics, 63^, 640, 651 ; erro- 

 neous views on the extent of the old 

 continent, 644, 645 ; heraldic bear- 

 ings bestowed on, 647; physical ob- 

 servations in his letter from Hayti, 

 October, 1498, 653, 654; discovery 

 of the magnetic line of no variation, 

 654,657; first described the equa- 

 torial current, 662, 663;' the Mar 

 de Sargasso, 663 ; on the method of 

 taking a ship's reckoning, 671 673. 



Compass, its discovery and employ- 

 ment, 628 630; transmission 

 through the Arabs to Europe from 

 the Chinese, 628630. 



Conquista, age of the, great events it 

 embraced, 675. 



Conquistadores, impulses which ani- 

 mated them, 648, 649. 



