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black Asiatic races, 531; oil the in- 

 cense of Arabia, 574. 



Leibnitz, character of his Protogoea, 

 734, 735. 



Leif, his discovery of America, 603, 

 604, 607. 



Lepsius, his chronological data for 

 Egypt, 475, 486; on the monuments 

 of the distant expeditions of Ramses 

 Miamen, 487; on the Semitic writ- 

 ten characters, 491. 



Letronne, on the Greek Zodiac, 533, 

 534; on the canal of the Red Sea, 

 540; on the epoch of Diophantus, 

 551 ; on the early discoveries of the 

 Irish, 608. 



Leignitz, Mongolian battle at, 571, 

 624. 



Lieu-tscheu, ancient Chinese writer, 

 on the pleasure felt in the possession 

 of gardens, 462, 463. 



Light, gradual discovery of its pheno- 

 mena, 715 717. 



Lippershey, Hans, his claims to the 

 discovery of the telescope discussed, 

 699701. 



Lister, early researches by, in palaeon- 

 tology, 733. 



Livy, writings of, 388. 



Log, use of in navigation, and date of 

 its introduction, 631634. 



Longinus, 531. 



Longus, his pastoral romance, ' Daphnis 

 et Chloe,' 880. 



Lonnrott, Elias, collection of Finnish 

 songs, 411. 



Lucan, vivid description of nature in 

 his works, 387. 



Lucius the younger, his didactic poem 

 of^Etna, 387. 



Lucretius, his great poem, ' De Na- 

 tura,' 382, 383, 425. 



Ludius, ancient Roman painter, 442. 



Luis, Fray de Leon, description of 

 night, 429. 



Lully, Raymond, scientific acquire- 

 ments of, 629, 630. 



Lusiad, of Camoens, its truth to nature, 

 424427. 



Maoedo, J. J. da Costa de,work on the 

 discovery of the Canaries, 497. 



Macedonians, influence of their cam- 

 paigns under Alexander the Great, 

 517, 518, 560. 



Macpherson's Ossian, 402. 



Madeira, supposed notice of in Plu- 

 tarch, 497. 



Madoc, western voyage of, 608, 609 

 610. 



Magellan, navigation and discoveries 

 of, in the Pacific, 646, 647. 



Magellanic clouds, first notices of, 665 y 

 666, 714. 



Magnetism, observations and disco- 

 veries in the middle ages of Colum- 

 bus, 654657; Cabot, 657, 658; 

 Gassendi, 658; Robert Norman, 

 658, 718; modern researcnes, Wil- 

 liam Gilbert's, 717. 718; Arago, 

 718; Faraday, 718, 719; Edmund 

 Halley, 719 ; Frederick Gauss, 720, 

 Antarctic expeditions, 719, 720. 



Mahabharata, Indian heroic poem, 

 404, 406, 407, 511, 521. 



Mains, discovery of polarisation by, 

 715, 727. 



Mandeville, John, his travels, 434; 

 their characteristics, 625. 



Manetho, Egyptian dynasty of, 486. 



Marco Polo, his travels and admirable 

 narrative, 624 626; early editions 

 of, and whether known to Columbus, 

 626. 



Marinus Sanuto, writings of 627, 628. 



Marinus of Tyre, his isthmus hypo- 

 thesis, 489, 643; myth on the 

 Indian Ocean, 561 ; on the breadth 

 of the old continent, 645. 



Marias, Simon, on the invention of the 

 telescope, 700, 701; discovered the 

 moons of Jupiter simultaneously with 

 Galileo, 702, 703; nebula in An- 

 dromeda, 714. 



Martel, Charles, on the results of his 

 victory over the Moslems at Tours, 

 571. 



Masudi, Arabian historian, account of 

 the remains of a ship of the Red Sea, 

 489. 



Materia Medica, Hindoo and Arabic 

 knowledge of, 581. 



Mathematicians, Grecian, 529, 530, 

 543546; Babylonian, 533; Indian 

 535, 596, 597; "Arabic, 596; of the 

 middle apes, 619, 620, 630, 661, 

 modern, 683737. 



Mayow, on the influence of nitrous 

 particles in the air, 730. 



Mediterranean, its geographical posi- 



