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INDEX. 
Dances, ancient, 271 
of the calumet, 272 
Dancing girls in Egypt, 272 
Dancers, a religious sect in Flanders, 565 
Darien, inhabitants of, 201 
Day, Thomas, 418 
Dead sea, or lake of Asphaltites, 658 
Deafness, and dumbness, 517 
Dee, John, 316 
Decoy for taking wild fowls, 725 
Diamonds, extraordinary size and value of, 
614 
Dieu et mou droit, 800 
Dimsdale, sir Harry, mavor of Garratt, 428 
Doomsday or domesday book, 798 
Dragooning the French protestants, 556 
Dutch, manners and character of the, 191 
Dunstan, St. 303 
Dwarfs, Lewis Hopkins and John Coan, 401 
• ^the Dutch, Wyband Lolkes, 402 
Earth, absorption of, and moving, 591 
bread, 787 
Egypt, slate of female society in, 26 
• miserable state of the people of, 175 
Egyptian darkness, 491 
Electrical properties in animals, 745 
Elephants, sagacity of, 727 
Ellen Tate, 790 
England, New, manners and character of 
the citizens of, 160 
Eonians, a fanatical sect, 555 
Essenians, a ancient Jewish sect, 534 
Ethiopians, modern manners of the, 143 
customs of the ancient, 277 
funeral ceremonies of the, 294 
Exposing of children, 276 
Fairies, 789 
Fakirs of India, 540 
Falls of Foyers, 602 
Families of children, numerous, 290 
Farainedn Bengal, 503 
Female society in Egypt, 26 
Fine fellows of two periods, 529 
Fire, perpetual, 480 
Fire and pestilence of London, 507 
Flagellants, a sect of wild fanatics, 558 
Flying Dutchman, 234 
Force of men and horses, 788 
Forge, a I’emarkable, 576 
Forks for the table, 572 
Formosans, account of the, 67 
Free spirits, brethren and sisters of the, 
559 , 
Friendly Islands, inhabitants of the, 58 
Funeral ceremonies, 64, 78, 110, 134, 156, 
167, 292, 294, 296 
Gabres, or Gaors, a sect in Persia, 536 
Galla, a nation of EtJiiopia, 182 
Gareinia mangostana, a tree, 775 
Garments, dress, &5c. 24, 125, 133,135, 187 
Gascoigne, Thos. a penurious character, 430 
Georgia, inhabitants of, 96 
Gilpin, Bernard, 308 
Gladiators, an account of the, 205 
Gladiator, the dying, 721 
Glass, astonishing properties of, 78 
Gnats, 765 
Golden fish, 762 
Goldsmith, Oliver, 414 
Going a Gooding on St. Thomas’s day, 234 
Gordian knot, 487 
Gog and Magog, 801 
Granicus, battle of the, 511 
Gratitude, instances of, 514 
Greenland, account of the natives of, 51 
Groaning tree, 777 
Guiana, South America, natives of, 176 
Guinea, history of the trade to, 491 
—humanity and civility of the natives 
of, 101 
Guy, Thos. the founder of Guy’s Hospital, 
369 
Gymnotus, an electrical animal, 746 
Gymnosophists, 537 
Hagmena, a custom in Franconia, 233 
Hallow-even, the vigil of all saints day, 252 
Halos, artificial, 583 
Hand, 686, and Ambidexterity, 587 
Handel, connnemoration of, 481 
Hare, the mountain or alpine rabbit, 738 
Harleian collection, 470 
Harpoon gun, 580 
Hatching, artificial, 592 
Hattemists, a Dutch sect, 565 
Hats, 581 
Hawking, history of, 222 
Hedgehog, 741 
Heideggar, John James, 365 
Henley, John, the Orator, 380 
Heroic women, 152 
Hindoos, manners, customs, &c, of the, 135 
Hindoo suttee, 229 
Hippopotamus or river horse, 729 
Hogarth, William, the painter, 386 
Holland, New, inhabitants of, 116 
Hospitality, 79, 122 
Hottentots, some account ot the, 102 
■ habitations of the, 105 
— — superstitions of the, 106 
Houzouanas, a wandering nation of Africa, 
170 
Howard, John, the philanthropist, 406 
Human horns, cases of, 521 
Huaheine, one of the Society Islands, 131 
Hunting among the Mexicans, 224 
in Lapland, 225 
in the East Indies, 226 
Hutton, Charlotte, 436 
Jane of Flanders I. 433 
Januarius, St. 302 
.Japanese, account of the, 12 
Ice-hills in Russia, 664 
Iceland, volcanoes and irrwptions iri, 650 
Icelanders, account of the, 97 
Ichneumon wasp, or savage, 764 
Jenkins, Henry, 791 
