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INDEX. 



B 



Baccharis haUmlfoUa, cotton groundsel tree, or sea purslane, 



276. 



Basaliic walls, in North Carolina, 448. 

 Bay-tree, red stalked Carolinian, 265. 

 Bears i 317. A female with young dissected, 318. 

 Bear -berry , 289. 



Beavers 331. Their surprising sagacity in constructing their 

 habitations, 332. Mode of killing them, 335. Easily 

 tamed, 336. 



Bermuda-grass f 227. 



Big grave, an ancient mound in the Western Territory, 483. 

 Birds, 343. Dr. Barton's enumeration of, ib. Their course 



in migrating, 344. 

 Bison 307. Of the same species with the auroch of Europe, 



308. Mode of chasing, by the Indians, ib. Taken in 



p^}unds, 309. Their uses, 310. Sagacity in defending 



themselves against the wolves, 311. 

 jlIiV^C/^ /eai/, or plumbago., 413. 



or su] ',)huretof zinc, 423. 

 £'->oJ xoo^'t, 288. 

 B^,K':I'i;g cave^ 468. 

 B'ue bird 346. 

 — — bream, 359. 

 Boa, 388. 



Boiir/daries and contents cf the United States, 1. 



Bridge, viatural, in New Hampshire, 445. In Virginia, 450. 

 The Delaware, at Trencon, 485. The Schuylkill, at Phi- 

 ladelphia, 492. 



Brimstone. 409. 



Entie)jivH^eei. 282. 



Button-v^GGd, 260. 



c 



Cabbage tree, 273. 



Calicantliusfioridus, Carolina allspice, 297. 

 Candlebcrr\i "inyrtle^ 296. 

 Canvass back dude, 355. 



Capitol Hill, 54. Fossil and mineralised wood beneath its 



surface, 56. 

 Carcajou, or wolverene, 319. 



