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INDEX. 
Psalm-singing, origin of, 251 
Punishments in Algiers, 46 
Recluse, description of a, 562 
Recreations, 111 
Recover}' of a female unjustlv executed, '*80 
Religious fasting, 560 
Rivers, disappearing of, 607 
Rock of Aultgrande, in Scotland, 62^^ 
Romans at table, 230 
Rosicrucians, hermetical philosophers, 564 
Russia, the people of, described, 196 
Salamander, 750 
Salt-mines in Poland, 656 
Salutation, modes of, 245 
Samoieda, Inhabitants of, 201 
Sarcophagus, 617 
Scylla and Charybdis, G19 
Sea-dragon, 735 
— serpent, 743 — ape, 773 
Second-sight, 687 
Seeks, a religious sect in Persia, 544 
Segalien, the island of, 16 
Sego in Africa, Park s account of, 33 
Selkirk, Alexander, 375 
Senegaliens, of Senegar in Africa, 75 
Seraglio of the emperor of Morocco, 47 
Serpents, tricks performed with, 749 
Sharp, Abraham, the mathematician, 372 
Shillook, inhabitants of Sennaar, 73 
Siamese, account of the, 69 
Sic ly, marriage customs in, 278 
Sinai or Sina, mount, 618 
Si-fans, orTou-fans, of China, 71 
Sixtus V. popo, 312 
Six-nations of American Indians, 174 
Snakes, a list of, found in Bengal, 697 
Snake stones, or ammonillae, 610 
Social customs, Asiatic, 298 
Sorcery, or magic, 678 
Spain, inhabitants of, 191 
Spanish armada, history of the, 503 
Spell, or charm, 682 
Sphinx, 795. 
Sponge, 768 
Stukeley, Mr. the perpetual-motion seeker, 
413 
Stockings, and weaving of, 582 
Stones of various kinds, 610 
Subterranean vaults of Maestricbt, 598 
lake of Burgundy, 610 
Superstition of the N. Amer. Indians, 82 
Hottentots, 106 
Russians, 199 
— respecting the moon, 683 
in Scotland, 248 
observed in Bombay, 538 
Suspended animation, 515 
Suttee in Hindoostan, 229 
Swift, a species of swallow, 769 
Taylor, John, the water poet, 329 
Temple of Jupiter, at Olympia, 695 
Osiris in Egypt, 696, 
-Hiannen in China, 701 
Theodore, Anthony, king of Corsica, 383 ' 
Tobacco, king James against, 781 
Tombs, ancient, 296 
Tongues, confusion of, 487 
Torpedo, 747 
Trade to Guinea, history of, 491 
Travelling, mode of, 25 
Trees, age of, 777 
Trenck, Frederiek von, 411 
Trial, a singular, 211 
Turkey, inhabitants of, 192 
Turkish bathing, 274 
Turtle, 762 
Valley of Waipio, in Owhyhee, 660 
: Vegetable lamb, 779 
Venice, account of the prison in, 698 
Vishnoo, a Hindoo deit}', 569 
Volcano of Owbybee, (Hawaii,} 626 
— -^tna, 635 
Iceland, 650 
Wars of the N. Amer. Indians, 84- 
Walnut tree, 778 
Weather, changes of tlie, 804 
Weddings in Great Britain, 280 
White bre bren, a popish sect, 559 
Williamson, Peter, 403 
Witchcraft, 676 
Women, 26, 44, 48, 108, 140, 146, 185 
209, 300, 443 
Writing, origin of the materials of, 589 
.Zend, or Zendavesta, 802 
LIST OF THE PLATES. 
Frontispiece, History upon an Erainc ce, &c 
Manner of Travelling in Winter in Kamlschatka, 
Canoes used by the Greenlanders, 
Laplanders in their Winter Dress, 
Men and Women of the Sandwich Islands, 
A Man of New Caledonia throwing the Spear, 
Domestic Scene in Russia, 
Cleopatra’s Nvedle, and Pompey’s Pillar, 
Volcano in the Island of Hawaii 
Valley of Waipio in Hawaii, 
Prison in Venice, 698^1'. Dancing Sejpents,'^^ 
Egyptian Spliiiix, 
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