955 
Whales, migrations of, 686. 
Norwood, R., on, 522. 
playing of, 686. 
size of, 684. 
Stafford, R., on, 683. 
sporting, 686. 
- tameness of, in Bay of Fundy, 687. 
Wheat, common, 491, 524, 525, 545. 
Wheatear, 429, 724, 888. 
Whelks, West Indian, 463, 464, 708, 849. 
recently introduced, 708, 849. 
shells, fossil, 464. 
“« in kitchen middens, 463. 
Whinn, 653. 
Whipping Post, 550. 
punishment by, 556, 568, 564, 876. 
White, Rev. Nathaniel, 527. 
White Ants, 739, 817, 894. 
blast of onions, 812. 
Coccus, 637. 
Egret, 680. 
Hearn Bay, 681. 
Heron, 662, 680. 
Heron, laws to protect, 662, 681. 
Mangrove, 581. 
Mulberry, 625. 
Mullets, 699. 
Scale-insect, 810. 
slaves, 566. 
White-eyed Vireo, 429, 662, 887. 
Whitefield, Rev. George, 645. 
Whites, number of, 560, 570. 
Wild Birds Protection Act, 886. 
Wild or Half-wild Cats, 718. 
Box, 582. 
Bryone, 575. 
Olive, 575. 
Passion Flower, 579. 
Tobacco, 577. 
Wild Hogs, 550, 589, 710. 
bewitched, 615. 
their extermination, 710. 
destructive effects cf, 589. 
destructive on St. Helena, 633. 
Wilk [whelk], 708. 
Williams, H. E., 506. 
Williams, W. F., on meteorology, 809, | 
810. 
Willow, Caracas, 649. 
Weeping, 649. 
A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
543 
Winds, 496. 
salt, damage done by, 579. 
Wine-fly, 742. 
Wine-grape of Europe, 636. 
Wire-weed, 574. 
Wire-worms, 794. 
Wistaria, American, 659. 
speciosa= W. frutescens, 659. 
Wistowe, 4984. 
fishes confined at, 434. 
Witchcraft, executions for, 614, 878- 
815. 
ordeals by water for, 614, 880, 881. 
prosecutions, 641, 878-885. 
Women appointed executioners, 562. 
punished by ducking, 481. 
sold for wives to the highest bid- 
ders, 566. 
Wood Beauty, 769. 
Wood, Governor Roger, 421, 523, 557, 
607. 
on castor oil crop, 523. 
on destitution of people, 557, 558. 
on negroes, 561, 562. 
on Pineapples, 628. 
on Tobacco, 558. 
Proclamation of, 497. 
Wood, John, trial of, 875. 
Wood, Shaw, 648. 
Woodbine, Capt. Smith on, 580. 
Virginian, 575, 658. 
Wood-borers, 794. 
Woodhouse, Governor, 447, 608. 
Woodpeckers, 669, 888. 
Wood-rats, 543, 549, 551, 552, 590, 611, 
712. 
Capt. John Smith on, 715. 
effects of, 590. 
extinction of, due to starvation, 715. 
Goy. Butler on, 713. 
Hughes on, 714. 
origin of, 712. 
Wood-wasp, 752. 
Wooden-ware, exported, 
Woodwardia Virginica, ¢ 
Wreck of Bonaventura, 534-537. 
Garland, 496, 513. 
Sea Venture, 537-041. 
Spanish ships, 514. 
Virginia merchant, 1661, 497. 
