

ancients and the writers of the mid- 

 dle ages, Universal Geography of 

 Eratosthenes, 543 545 ; ' Map of 

 the World' of Hipparchus, 545; 

 Geographies, of Strabo, 555 558 ; 

 of Claudius Ptolemams, 558 562 ; 

 of El Istachri and Alhassen, 584, 

 585; of Dicuil, 608; of Aloertus 

 Magnus, 618; Picture of the World 

 of Cardinal Alliaco, 620, 621 ; Plani- 

 spherium 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 

 Eehaim, 645, 646 ; Hydrography of 

 Joh. Rotz, 649; Variation chart of 

 Santa Cruz, 658. 



Gerard, his illustrations to the 'Lusiad' 

 of Camoens, 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 lloman 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, 725 727. 



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, 690, 

 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, 

 374; mythical treatment of the 

 vegetable world, 377; decay of the 

 true Hellenic poetry in the time of 



Alexander, 378 ; deep feeling fur 

 nature in the Greek anthology, 379; 

 Greek prose writers, 380, 381; 

 Givek fathers, descriptions of Na- 

 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, 

 506 ; 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, 613, 514; important results of 

 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 writings, 

 395. 



Greenland, first colonisation of, 603, 

 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 mag- 

 netic poles, 719; on the northern 

 lights, 719 ; atmospheric currents, 

 724. 



Hamamat, sculptural inscriptions of, 

 488. 



Happy Islands, of the ancients, 496. 



Haroun Al-Raschid, curious clock, pre- 

 sented by, to the Emperor Frederick 

 II., 591,' 592. 



Harriott, Thomas, observations by, of 



