INDEX. 



795 



coral insects, 382. 383 ; of Italian re- 

 mains, 405; of an inundation, 415. 



Halley, 3; his birth, career, and labours, 

 41 ; becomes second astronomer royal, 

 41 ; his voyages. 41 ; observes tlie 

 comet of 1680, which since took his 

 name, 41, 42; his predictions, and their 

 verification since his death, 42; his 

 opinions on meteors, 131; his courtli- 

 ness, 147 ; his observations on a variable 

 star in the Swan, 171 ; observations l>y, 

 476. 572. 



Halos, 530. 



Hamilton, Sir William, 404. 432. 



Hammer, M. von, the Orientalist, 135. 



Hammerfest, island of, 552. 



Hampshire geological basin, 742. 



Hand, the, its importance to man, 595. 



Hannibal, his passage into Italy, 215. 



Harding, discovered an asteroid, 158. 



Harmattan, or desert hot wind, 448, 449. 



Hartside mountain, 451, 452. 



Hastings, singular atmospheric pheno- 

 mena seen at, 537. 



Hatfield Chase, account of, 771, 772. 



Hatteras, Cape, 364. 



Hawau, or Owhyhee, prodigious vol- 

 cano in, 210. 



Hawkshaw, memoir by Mr., 704. 



Hayti, negroes of, 609. 



Head, Captain, 569 ; his description of the 

 Pampas, 233. 



Heads, shape and illustrations of the 

 variet'es of human, 601. 604. 



Heat, rarefaction of air by, familfarly 

 illustrated, 436 ; a high degree of, sup- 

 portable by man, 484 ; intense, in 

 various places, 495 ; increases as we 

 descend into the earth, 501, 502 ; is a 

 grand agent in evaporation, 461 ; has 

 caused the upheavings of rocks, 631, et 

 al. f supposed focus of, in the centre 

 of the earth, 643 ; intense action of, 

 643. 



Heath plants not common in Asia and 

 unknown to America, 558. 



Heavens, appearance ol the, <>3 ; scenery 

 of the, 49192 ; optical illusion re- 

 garding the, 146 ; guide to the constel- 

 lations in the, 156-158. 



Heber, Bishop, observations of, 599, 600. 



Heberden, Dr., 469. 



Hebrides, the. 363 ; geology of the, 660. 

 662. 



Hecla, eruptions of Mount, 781, 782. 



Hedge or thicket plants, 550. 



Helena, St., island of, 326. 356 ; pecu- 

 liarity of its plants, 558. 563 ; was long 

 uninhabited, 596. 



Heliacal setting, the, 5. 



Heligoland, islands of, 393. 



Heliopolis, obelisk at, 15. 



Hellespont, movement of its waters, 366 ; 

 Byron swam across, 366. 



Helm-weed in Cumberland, account of 

 the, 451, 452. 



Hemispheres of the globe, diversiti u s of 

 the old and new, 198; temperatures of 

 northern and southern, 502. 



Henderson, Mr., 528. 



Henslow, Professor, 568. 



Herbivorous fish, 578, 579. 



Herculaneum, city of, 423, 424. 



Hercules, the constellation, 178. 



Herefordshire has no coal, 641 ; sand- 

 stone of, 681, 682. 



Herodotus, 7. 



Herring, the, its rapid movement, 575. 



Herschel, Sir William, his birth and his- 

 tory, 44 ; his great telescope, 44, 45 ; 

 much extended our knowledge of the 

 solar system, and discovered Uranus 

 with its satellites, 45; also the sixth and 

 seventh satellites of Saturn, 45; re- 

 solved the Milky Way into an infinite 

 number of stars, 46 ; time of his death, 

 46 ; view of his great telescope at 

 Slough, 160; his catalogue of nebulae, 

 179; his observations on, 182; his 

 estimations of their distances, 184. 



, Caroline, sister of the preceding, 



and the constant partner in his labours, 

 46. 179 ; survived her brother, 46 ; dis- 

 covers a nebula, 183. 



, Sir J., nephew of the latter, and 



son of the former ; his discourse be- 

 fore the Astronomical Society, 143, 144 ; 



his catalogue of nebulae, 179, 180 ; no- 

 tices of his labours and citations from 

 hi* disquisitions, 181, et al. 



Hesiod, 5, 6. 



Hesseburg, fossil footmarks at, 714. 



Hevelius of Dantzic, his labours, 34 ; 

 specially observed the northern hemi- 

 sphere, 41 ; Hounds of, 154, 155 ; dis- 

 covers a temporary star, 168 ; searches 

 for the Stella Mira, 170 ; observations 

 of, 275. 308. 397. 



Highlands, the Scotch, 658, 659. 662. 681. 

 et al. 



High water at various places, time of, 

 356, 357. 



Hills, the Pentland, principally felspar, 

 623. 



Himalaya range, geology of the, 645. 681, 

 et al. 



Himalayas, mountains of the, 204. 487, 

 488. 541. 



Hinds, Mr., 548. 560. 569. 



Hindoos, complexions of the, 599, 600. 



Hindu tables, 4. 



Hipparchus, the greatest astronomical 

 name in antiquity, 10; made a cata- 

 logue of the fixed stars, 10 ; also an 

 artificial globe, 11 ; his system illus- 

 trated and examined, 12, 13. 



Hippopotamus, the, 590. 594 ; the fossil, 

 755. 



History of astronomical discovery, 148. 



Hitchcock, Professor, 683. 702. 714, 715, 

 716.761. 



Hoar-frost, 483. 



Hob-hole, Whitby, view and description 

 of, 393. 



Hoff, M., 388. 398. 



Hog, notices of the, 588. 592, 593. 605, 

 606. 



Holland, tides of, 358 ; coasts of, 401. 



, Dr., 712. 



Hollows, circular, at Palistena, 433. 



Home, Sir Everard, 721. 



Homer cited, 5, 6. 130. UA. 259, 260. 269. 

 367. 600. 



Homo, the genus, 595. 



Honfleur, fossil bones found near, 723. 

 726. 



Hooke, Dr., developed the influence of 

 gravity, 37. 



Hooker, Sir William Jackson, 517. 



Horizontal stratification illustrated, 625, 

 626. 



Hornblende, a component of granite, 644 ; 

 and of greenstone, 652; of trachytic 

 rock, 655 ; slate, 659. 



Horsburgh, Captain, 384. 439. 



Horse, the wild, of South America, 587. 

 600, 601 ; other animals of the equine 

 kind, 598 ; diversities of the, 605. 



Hotoplychius, the, 680, 681. 



Hot spring plants, 550. 



Hot-wells. See Thermal Springs. 



Hot winds, 447450. 



Hotham volcanic island, visit to, descrip- 

 tion and view of, 377379. 



Howard, Mr. Luke, 463. 480. 483. 



Hudson, the river, 620; Palisadoes, or 

 basaltic rocks of the, 626. 



Human race, chapter on the distribution 

 of the, 595610; its numbers, 596: 

 food, 597 ; varieties, 598 ; colour of 

 skin, and complexion, 599; shape of 

 the head, 601605 ; bodily proportions, 

 605; odours, 605, 606; other diver- 

 sities, 606, 607 ; longevity, 607, 608 ; 

 general analogies, 608 ; pretensions and 

 usurpations of races, 609; original 

 unity, 609 ; and accidental dispersions, 

 610 



Humboldt, Von, 212 ; his account of the 

 Cordilleras, 219 ; of the Sahara and 

 other deserts, 226. 229 ; of the llanos, 

 230, 231 ; of cavities in the earth, 240. 

 242 ; of Guacharo, 245, 246 ; of the 

 climate of tropical America, 296, 297, 

 298 ; his conjecture regarding the Cas- 

 pian, 317 ; notice of ocean springs, 328 ; 

 light and colour of oceanic water, 330. 

 333 ; and its temperature, 335, 336 ; his 

 observations on the Mediterranean, 

 347 ; on the Atlantic seaweeds, 348 ; 

 currents, 362 ; of the earthquake at 

 Caraccas, 431, 432 ; of the tropics, 441'; 

 his measure of rain-falls, 470, 471 ; his 

 observations on Teneriffe, 491 ; his 



table of climates, 493 ; his theory of 

 American climates, 495 ; his account of 

 climates in general, 496503 ; of a 

 thUnder-storm at Cnman \, 518 ; and of 

 a halo seen there, 539 , of subterranean 

 plants near, 547 ; gigantic trees mea- 

 sured by, 549, 550 ; his account of the 

 forests of equinoctial America, 555 ; 

 and its trees, 558 ; declares the native 

 country of the potato to be unknown, 

 567 ; describes the action of the elec- 

 trical eel on man and animals, 576, 577 ; 

 his account of a cayman, 580 ; of the 

 jaguar, 586 ; of the wild horses of 

 South America, 587 ; of the earth-eating 

 Indians, 598 ; of the acute scent of 

 Indians, 606 ; of the longevity of In- 

 dians, 607; was a pupil of Werner, 617; 

 his observations on the Peruvian rocks, 

 645 ; op the Andes' top?, 655. 



Hungary, mountains of, 656. 



Hunter, Mr. John, 609. 



Hurricanes, 451 456 ; in South America, 

 451 ; in the East and West Indies, 452 

 455; their whirlwind character, 453. 

 456 ; their action on desert sands, 456 ; 

 on dusty plains, 457 ; on the ocean, 



457, 458 ; illustration of tropical, 451 ; 

 their uses in the economy of nature, 



458, 459. 565. 



Hutton, Dr. James, propounded the Vul- 

 canian or igneous hypothesis of geo- 

 logy, 618, 619 ; his exploration of Glen 

 Tilt, 632, 633. 



, Mr., 702. 



Huygens discovered a satellite of Saturn 

 and the great nebula in Orion, 34 ; is 

 invited to, but afterwards banished 

 from, France, 34 ; his discoveries, 34. 

 184 ; a remark of hi's, 164. 



Hyades, constellation of the, 159. 



Hydrogen, with oxygen, forms water, 

 622. 



Hygrometer, the, 462. 



Hylaeosaurus, the, 730. 



Hypersthene, a component of granite, 

 644, 645. 



Hypogenous rocks, 643. 



Hypothesis or theory, nebular, of Her- 

 schel and Laplace, 47 ; not atheistical 

 in its nature, 191, 192; of Linnaeus re- 

 garding the original habitat of plants, 

 difficulties attending the, 564. 



Ice-fields in the ocean, description and 

 view of, 337, 338 ; icebergs, origin and 

 character, with an illustration, 338 

 345 ; perils to navigators from, 339 

 341 ; 342345 ; animals drifted on, 592. 



Iceland, 361 : Yokuls of, 207 ; volcanic 

 isle near, 370 ; calamities in, 376; boil- 

 ing mud of, 515 ; lightning in, 519 ; 

 aurora borealis in, 527, 528; atmo- 

 spherical isothermal phenomena of, 542; 

 white bears of, 588. 



Ichthyophagous races of men, 597. 



Ichthyosaurus, the, 638 ; 721, 722. 



Ichnolites, or foot-prints in stone, 714. 



Ichyolites, 684686. 689. 694. 



Igneous action, force of, 631. 643 ; past, 

 in Britain, 656. 698, 699. 



Ignis fatuus, the, 543545 ; localities of, 

 543, 544, 545 ; view of a, 544 ; arises 

 from inflammable gas, 545. 



Iguano, the, 729. 



Iguanodon, the, 729, 730. 



Illusions, spectral, 535543. 



Inclined stratification, illustration of, 627 

 630. 



India, flora of, 562, 563. 



Indications, concluding chapter on gene- 

 ral geological, 783 7W. 



Indus, the river, 294. 357. 



Inequalities of the ocean bed, 326. 



Inflammable springs, 275, 276. 



Infusoria, 572. 614. 



Inglis, Mr., his mountain experiences, 

 214, 215, 216; traced rivers to their 

 sources, 278 ; his opinion of the Shan- 

 non rapid, 284 ; his estimation of divers 

 European rivers, 299; account of the 

 Tyrolese Alps, 490, 491 . 



Ingredients, the various, found in granite, 

 644, 645. 



Inquiry into the origin ol the various 

 races of men, 599610. 



Insect tribes, the, 572; in equatorial and 



