INDEX, 
661 
Pace. 
yiswatcr.lakc, deseilption 
of, .. 375 
Upas, or poison-tree, de- 
scription of, ... 522 
Vesuvius, mount, account 
and eruptions of, ... 14 
Viper, the great, of Marti- 
nique, natural history of 
the, .. ... 483 
Virginia, rock-bridge in, 199 
Vistula-river, its rise and 
course, .. ... 357 
Volga-rivcr, its rise and 
course, .. . ib. 
Volcano, cniptions of the 
island of, ... ... 83 
Watfai-spout, Sir Richard 
Phillips’s description of 
■<t> 458 
Watson, Bishop, on the 
origin of ice, ... 319 
M'^cddcd Banian-tree, de- 
scription of the 5 ?X 
Page- 
WestminsTer-aaoey, descrip- 
tion of, . €11 
W etlicrcot-cave, Y orkshire, 
description of, ... 75 
Whaniside, Yorkshire, de- 
scription of, ... 79 
Whirhvinds and water- 
spouts, observations on, 
and description of, ... -453 
Whispering-gaiIery,St.Paurs, 
description of, C09 
Whitehaven, coal-mines at, 289 
White- rock, Glamorgan- 
shire, effect of the great 
earthquake in 1755, at, 155 
White-tower, Tower of Lon- 
don, description of, ... 615 
Wigan, sulphur-well at, 75 
Winandcr-mere, description 
of, 37ft 
Winifred’s Well, Holywell, 
description of, ... 39 * 
— ' pretended miracle 
at, .. 
