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Grand galvanic battery, 
description of Sir Hnni- 
plirey Davy’s, ... 642 
Grose, Mr. liis opinion of 
Stonehenge, ... 605 
Grotta del Cane, descrip- 
tion of, •• ... 115 
Grottoes and caverns, 
description of curious 
ones, ... ... 126 
Giiadiaua-river, Spain, its 
rise and course, ... S59 
Guadalquiver-river, its rise 
and course, ... S60 
Hail-storms, observations 
on, and effects of, ... 452 
Halley, Dr. on the origin of 
springs, •• 
... 
330 
— — his diving-bell, . 
650 
Hamilton, Sir William, 
his 
account of Mount Etna, 
10 
of the ernptions 
of 
Mount Vesuvius, 
,, 
16 
— ■ - of earthquakes 
iu 
the two Calab"*2s, 
t*. 
170 
■ ■ on meteors, 
Hamps and Manifold, 
413 
ri» 
ver.s. Peak of Derbyshire, 
description of. 
73 
Hanging-tower at Pisa, 
ac- 
count of, 
589 
Hastings, Sussex, remark- 
aiile instance of atmos- 
pheric relVactiou at, • • 440 
Hayg. .h, Mr. liis descrip- 
tion of a concentric rain- 
bow, . • .. 444 
Hccia, Mount, dcscriptieu 
of, ... ... 22 
Henry V. bis magnificent 
tomb, Westminster Ab- 
bey, ... .. 612 
— VII, llie cltapel of, ib. 
Herculaneum, discovery of, 131 
llermopolis, the temple otj 542 
Hersclicl, Dr, his grand 
telescope, ... 631 
High Tor, Peak of Derby- 
shire, description of, 67 
Pac»- 
Himalaya-mountains, East 
Indies, description of, 83 
Hoang ho river, rise and 
course of, ... .. 34' 
Holland, great earthquake 
of 1755, felt in, .» 18* 
Holy-land, description of 
the, .. ^ ... 50« 
Hope-parish, Derbyshire, 
account of the. extraor- 
dinary preservation of 
Iiuman bodies in tlie 
snows of. 
Horse-armory, Tower of 
London, description of, 6^' 
Hudson’s river, its rise and 
itourse, •• ... 343 
fiiimber, rise and course of . 
... 36i 
74 
the, 
Humboldt, M. his descrip- 
tion of TenerifFe, 
of meteors, ... 
Humming-bird, natural his- 
tory of the 
Hungary, ores and minerals 
of. 
Hurricanes, their causes 
and effects. 
Ice, origin of, ... 
Ice-islands, description of. 
Icebergs, description of, 
Icononzo, South America; 
natural bridges of, -,,j 
Ignes fatui, observations on, 4- 
ludus, rise and course of 
the, ... ... 
Insects, transformation of, 
Ireland, the great earth- 
quake of 1755, felt in, 
— lead-mines of, 
■ lakes of. 
43 
40i 
49i 
434 
31’ 
j96 
.343 
51^ 
205 
307 
273 
Iron-mines, description ofi 
Islands originating from the 
sea, account of, ^ 
earthquakes in, 
Islington, new-river work* 
••• s64 
Ispahan, royal palaces of, 
Italian rivers, description 
of^ ». 
