INDEX. 
V 
Beds, 574 
Bebmen, Jacob, the Teutonic philosopher, 
322 
Bells, aoti(]oity of, 253 
— superstitious uses of, 256 
Belamites, or thunder-bolts, 612 
Beltan, superstitious custom in Scotland, 248 
Beguins, a congregation of nuns, 54G 
Bacon fossil in Devonshire, 616 
Bargarron noted for fkie thread, 719 
Ben-Nevis, a nMuiitam of Scotland, 623 
Belomancy, divination by arrows, 691 “ 
Bengal, extraordinary phenomenon in, 711 
Discayers, a disiksct people from the Spa- 
niards, 69 
Bissaons inhabitants of an African island, 
163 
Birth-day, 277 
Bird-catching, Italian method of, 471 
Blood, colonel, 358 
Black-hole prison, Calcutta, catastrophe at, 
498 
Blenheim, battle of, 612 
Blind lady, extraordinary case of a, 618 
Blood, force of the, 685 
- — — - transfusion of, 686 
Blood-hound, 742 
Black hares, 739 
Boat for ascending rapids In rivers, 579 
Bockholdt, orBoccold, John, 306 
Bog, a moving one in Ireland, 605 
Bombay, cariosities of, 697 
Bonzes of China, 637 
Book-worms, antidotes against, 801 
Boshies-men, a species of Hottentots, 128 
Boosbooanes, a tribe in the N. of Africa, 175 
Bottle-conjuror, 465 
Bourgoignons, or Burgundians, 173 
Bourignon, madam, 43S 
Brank for correcting scolding women, 576 
Brasilian flexible stone. 616 
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Brides, ancient customs respecting, 278 
Bridgetins, a religious order, 662 
Britton, T.the musical small-cpal man, 367 
Brossier, Martha, the demoniac, 434 
Browny, 791 
Brine-springs, 655 
Bricks, ancient, 726 
Bridges, natural, pendent, &c. 721 
Buckhars, manners, customs, &o. of the, 28 
Bull-fighting, Roman, 218, Spanish, 219, 
Burying alive, a punishment, 286 
Bnxton, Jedediah, 398 
Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander, 447 
Buchanites, a sect in Scotland, 668 
Butter- tree (shea-tree) 778 
Caledonia, New, inhabitants of, 185 
Cantabrians, the enemies of the Romans, 76 
California, inhabitants of, 195 
CafiPres described, 202 
Carbonari of Italy, 34 
Cardinal, origin and office of, 246 
Calas, John, 403 
Calcutta, history of the capture of, 498 
Carthusians, 646 
Cainites,*a sect of heretics, 568 
Calumet among the Indians, 583 
Carmelites, a tribe of mendicant friars, 547 
Cavern of Antiparos, 599 
Caves in Scotland and America, 60 
Canal of Scotland, the great, 723 
Canadian jerboa, 737 
Castles, history of ancient English, 709 
Celtiberians, a warlike nation, 162 
Celestines, a religious order, 548 
Celibacy and marriage, laws respecting, 291 
Ceylonese, account of the, 154 
Centipede worms, 757 
Chaos, 591 
Charcoal, porousness and durability of, 591 
Chatterton, Thomas, 423 
Chinese, manners of the, 9 
customs peculiar to the, 10 
__ entertainments, 11 
tea-drmking among the, 13 
religious sects among the, 16 
Christening customs, 290 
Christmas-keeping, 257 
- — within doors in Germany, 263 
Church bells, origin of, 254 
Circassians, account of the, 209 
Circulation of the blood, 584 
Clans in Scotland, 630 
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Clemency, instances of, 467 
Clocks, invention of, 577 
Cleopatra’s needle, and Pompey’s pillar, 59t 
Cochin-china, inhabitants of, 15 
Coreans, account of the, 168 
Cock-fighting, 215 
Coffins, ancient customs respecting, 299 
Congoese, an African nation, 171 
Cossacks, account of the, 63 
Corde, Charlotte, the assassin of Marat, 436 
Coroner’s inquest, origin of the, 250 
Cornaro, Lewis, the Venetian, 324^ 
Coryate, Thomas, 327, 
Coral-fishery, 472 
Coin of the realm, 479 
Comet, 803 
Commonwealth of Bablna, in Poland, SOI 
Cork-jackets, 575 
Colebrook Dale, in Shropshire, 661 
Cock- crowing, 772 
Crab, the land, 739 
Cross, punishment by the, 244 
■— — -superstitious adoration of the, 6S6 
Cromwell, Oliver, the protector, 331 
Cruden, Alex, author of the Concordance, 
396 ^ ,, 
Crowns, ancient, 571 
Crow, power of reason in a, 772 
Cricket, the field, domestic and mole, 754 
Currents in Norway, 660 
Customs at weddings, 280 
Cuerenbent, Theodore van, 315 
{ Dahomans, inhabitants of Africa, 186 
