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Excursion, part of a poem, to be called
the Recluse. See Wordsworth's Ex-
cursion

Face, its measure not indicative of the
understanding, 335

Fallacies of the senses, 135-6
Fish, a peculiar kind used by some
African fishermen for catching tur-
tles, 227; an immense shoal of dead
⚫ones, 229

Flowers of spring, description of, 518
France, its disorganized state, 75; its
scenery, ib.; poverty, 76; effects of the
revolution on the French character, 77;
causes of its deterioration, ib. ; progress
of protestantism in France inconsider-
able, 78; results of the revolution, 79
French, their conduct contrasted with
that of the English, in regard to
the article in the treaty of peace,
concerning the Slave Trade, 494-5
Fry's Sick Man's Friend, 209

Gala oxen, their enormous horns, 405
Gall, Dr. Physiognomical System, see
Spurzheim.

Geological Society, transactions of 558,

et seq. on certain products obtained
in the distillation of wood, with some
account of bituminous substances,
and remarks on coal, ib.; mineralo-
gical account of the isle of Man,
559; on the granite Tors of Corn-
wall, ib.; on the mineralogy of the
neighbourhood of St. David's, 560;
account of the brine springs at Droit-
wich, ib.; on the veins of Cornwall,
561; on the fresh-water formations
in the Isle of Wight; and observa-
tions on the strata over the chalk in
the S. E. of England, ib., on the vi-
trified forts of Scotland, 562; on the
sublimation of Silica, 564; on the
specimens of Hippurites from Sicily,
565, account of the coalfield at Brad-
ford, near Manchester, ib.; account
of the island of Teneriffe, ib.; on
the junction of trap and sandstone,
at Stirling Castle, 568; on the eco-
nomy of the mines of Cornwall and
Devon, ib.; on the origin of a re.
markable class of organic impres-
sions, occurring in nodules of flint,
571; description of the oxyd of tip,
&c., 571; on some new varieties of
fossil alcyonia, 572; miscellaneous re-
marks on a catalogue of specimens:—
remarks on several parts of Scotland
which exhibit quartz rock, and on the
nature and connexion of this rock in

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general, 673; notice relative to the
geology of the coast of Labrador,
575; memoranda relative to Clovelly,
North Devon, 576; on Staffa, ib. ; on
vegetable remains preserved in chal-
cedony, ib.; on the vitreous tubes
found near to Drigg, in Cumberland,
576

Geometria legitima,by Francis Reynard,
174-7, et seq.

Geometry, plane, Keith's elements of,
174, et seq.

Gilfillan's essay on the sanctification of
the Lord's-day, 515
Gias, torrent of, 557

Gogue, prophecy of Ezekiel concerning,
See Penn's prophecy.

Gospel, its reasonableness not, in the
first instance, the ground of its autho-
rity, 370
Gravitation, a proof of the original ex-
istence and continual operation of a de-
signing agent, 488; probability of a law
still more general than gravitation,
490

Grecian fables, origin of, 32

'Greenlanders, their infauts, on the
'death of their mothers, sometimes
'buried alive,' 10

Gregoire, M. on the Slave Trade, 490,
et seq.; Buonaparte abolishes the Slave
Trade in France, probably from po-
litical not humane motives, 491: the
greatest good frequently produced by
the vilest instruments, ib.; conduct of
some Heathens and Christians con-
trasted, ib.; Christians import blood
hounds from Cuba into St. Domingo,
for the destruction of the negroes,
493; attempts in Paris to stigmatize
the English in regard to their motive
in advancing the abolition of the
Slave Trade, ib.; privateers fitted out
to prosecute the trade, 494; conduct
of the French and English contrasted,
in regard to the obnoxious article in
the late treaty, 494-5; author's remarks
on the sixth resolution of the Abolition so-
ciety of June, 495; remarkable de-
claration of two Roman Pontiffs
against the Slave Trade, ib.; pretext of
reasons of state considered, ib. ; excellent
remarks of the author, ib.; European
outrages against Africa compared with
the Algerine piracies, 496; plausible
claims of a modern Genseric, founded
upon existing encroachments on the right
of the subject, 496-7; effect of the ob-
noxious article in the treaty of peace
on the Haytians, ib.; tendency of mo
ral evil to perpetuate its own exist,

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Ence, 537; and to paralyze the mass
of the people in regard to all virtu-
ous feeling, 538; móral evil of slavery,
ib.; of ignorance, ib.; of war, 539;
demoralizing influence of military
despotism, 540; moral emancipation
must precede political freedom, 541,
prospect of brighter days for poste-
rity, 542; enlightened views of the au-
thor in regard to liberty, 543; his re-
flections on catholic emancipation,
544; invidious tendency of national
distinctions on account of religious
opinions, 545; author's remarks on the
plea of the Coronation Oath, 546; his
PREDICTION in regard to the papacy,
547; he disclaims the mere personal
infallibility of the pope, 547; coinci-
dence between the reasoning of the
author and that of the Parisian San-
hedrim, ib.; M. Gregoire's opinion upon
a civil establishment for a particular mode
of public worship, 548; his attempt to
evade the charge of no salvation out of
the church,' ib. ; reflections on the pre-
sent state of Europe in a moral view, 549

Habits, inquiry if they become auto-
matical, 139

Haven Jens forms a Moravian settle-
ment at Nain, on the coast of Labra-
dor, 13

Heathens and Christians, their conduct
contrasted, 492

Henry VIII., his jester's advice to him,
130; state of religion during his reign,
266
Heroic poem to be popular, must be a
national one, 354

Hierarchy of England, probability of
its being involved in the downfall of
mystical Babylon, the opinion of
many, 550

Hieroglyphic writing not conducive to
the invention of Letters, 85
Hill's essay on the prevention and cure
of insanity, 39, et seq.; deep interest
of the subject, ib. et seq.; its fre-
quent occurrence, 40, materiality the
prominent feature of the essay, ib. ;
author's assertion that insanity is al-
ways founded on corporeal disease,
ib.; source of the error of the mate-
rialists, 41; division of the subject,
42; author's first proposition controverted
by his own statement, 43; inconsistency of
his remarks, 44; the two states of
Sthenia and Asthenia, 45; his defini-
tion of madness deficient, 46; time
unnoticed by the insane, ib.; proximate

cause of insanity, 47; on the here.
ditary nature of the disease, 48; the
preventive and curative treatment of
the complaint, ib.; abuses and evils
of lunatic asylums, 49; melancholy il-
lustrative incident, ib.; on the preven-
tion of insanity, ib.; decisive symp-
toms of actual madness, 50; Bel-
lingham not mad, ib.; remarks on al-
leged irresistibility in regard to crimi-
nal acts, 51; medical management
of the insane, 52; cautious conduct ne-
cessary in regard to insane convalescents,
53, on the detection of pretenders to
madness, 53-4; extract; ib. ; literary
character of the work, ib.
Hippopotamus, account of a vain a tempt
to kill this animal by shooting at it,

413

Hogg's Pilgrims of the Sun, 280, et seq.,
poetry not estimated by its intrinsic
qualities, 281; analysis of the poem
and extracts, ib., et seq.

Home's description of the solvent
glands and gizzards of the Ardea Ar-
gula, the Casuarius Emu, and the
long legged Cassowary, from New
South Wales, 259

Home's experiments to ascertain the co-
agulating power of the secretion of
the gastric glands, 261; on the tusks
of the Narwhale, 264
Hopedale, on the coast of Labrador,
Moravian settlement formed there,

13
Hopkinson's religious and moral reflec-
tions, 399, et seq.; specimen of the wri-
ter's incoherent style, 400; his false doc-
trine, 401

Horner's account of the brine springs
at Droitwich, 560
Horsley's, Bishop, caution to opposers of
Calvinism, 339

Huguenots, religious liberty their sole
object, 154

Hull on the doctrine of atonement,
621, et seq.; reflections on the death of
Christ, 622

Human mind, Stewart's philosophy of,
130, et seq.

Humphreys, on a new variety in the
breeds of sheep, 260

Hunter's opinions respecting some dis-
eases, Abernethy on, 586
Hunt's Descent of Liberty, a mask, 517,
et
et seq., definition of a mask, ib.; sub-
ject of the piece, 517; and extracts,
flowers of Spring, description of, 518;
extracts, 519; fourth song of peace, 520;
chorus in welcome of Ceres, 521; fa-

vourable estimate of the piece, ib.

Ideas, theory of, unfounded, 132
Insanity, Hill's essay on the prevention
and cure o^, 39, et seq.; its frequent
occurrence, 40; asserted by the au-
thor, to be always founded on cor-
poral disease, ib.; its proximate
cause, 47; its hereditary nature, 48;
treatment, preventive and curative,ib.,
detection of pretenders to madness,
53-4

Instinct of animals a law of nature, and
not an exertion of the reasoning prin-
ciple, 327

Interpretation of the Bible, Dr. Marsh's

course of lectures on, 79, et seq., of
words, 84

James I., state of religion in his reign,
271

Jephthah, a poem, 205, et seq.
Jerome and Epiphanius, their assertion
respecting the Hebrew Gospel used
by the Ebionites, (note) 375
John, first epistle, v. and 20th, Ward-
law's remarks on, 247
Johannes, a Mabikander Indian, his
account of his conversion,' 5

Keith's geometry, 174, et seq.
Kidd, on the mineralogy of the neigh-
bourhood of St. David's, Pembroke-
shire, 560

Kohlmeister and Kmoch's voyage from
Okkak to Ungava Bay, 1, et seq.

Labaume's narrative of the campaign
in Russia, 628, et seq., character of
the work, 629, state of the French
army on crossing the Niemen, ib.
battle of Ostrowno, 630; admirable or-
der of the Russians, 630; error of Buo-
naparte, 630; destructive battle of Malo-
Jaroslavitz, stern indifference of Buona-
parte, 632; dreadful extremity of the
French army in its retreat, 633; horrid
catastrophe at Liadoui, 633

Lathorn Hall, siege and defence of, 592-3
Laud, his cruel persecution of Alexan-
der Leighton, 273

Leftley's poems, 623, et seq.,, decline of
his health, with his character, 624, in-
cantation to the tooth-ach, 625-6
Lent, all food rigorously prohibited till
after sun-set during its continuance,
in Abyssinia, 420

Letters from a lady to her sister, du-
ring a tour to Paris, in the months of
April and May, 1814, 73-4; appear-

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ance of Louis XVIII., at the Cathedral
of Notre Dame described, ib.
L'Hôpital, Butler's essay on the life of,
148, et seq.

Liadoui, dreadful catastrophe of the French
sick and wounded there, 633

Liberty, Hunt's descent of, a mask, 517;
definition of a mask, ib.; subject, 517;
extracts, ib., et seq.: song of peace, 520;
welcome of Ceres, 521

Linley's poems, G27-8

Lord of the Isles, a poem, by Walter
Scott, 469, et seq; sketch of the
poem, 470, et seq.; extracts, 472
Lunatic asylums, abuses and evils of,
49, melancholy instance of, ib. ̧

Mac Culloch, on certain products ob-
tained in the distillation of wood,
with some account of bituminous
substances, and remarks on coal,
558; on the granite Tors of Cornwall,
559; Loggingrock, ib.; cheese-wring,
560; on the vitrified forts of Scotland,
562; on the sublimation of Silica,
564; on the junction of trap and sand-
stone, at Stirling Castle, 568: miscel-
laneous remarks accompanying a ca-
talogue of specimens, 573; on several
parts of Scotland that exhibit quartz
rock, &c. 573, isle of Rum, ib.; Craig
of Ailsa, ib.; Arran, 574; Portsey,
ib.; Crinan, ib.; on Staffa, 576; on.
vegetable remains found in Chalce-
dony, 576

Madras and China, Wathen's voyage to,
447, et seq.; Conjeveram, 449; Vish-
nou's temple, ib.; temple and carri-
ages of Seeva, 451-2; Chinese tem-
ple and holy pigsty, 455; British in-
tegrity, its estimate in China, 457
Maladetta, one of the Pyrenean chain, re-
flections occasioned by the desolate ap-
pearance around it, 213
Malo-Jaroslavitz, destructive battle of, 632,
Buonaparte's stern indifference on view
ing the field of battle, ib.
Malumpava or Elephant tree, 227
Man disqualified by sin for the full en-
joyment of the beauties and blessings
of nature, 13, et seq.

Manuscripts of the books of Scripture,
their various readings, 81
Marboré, one of the Pyrenees, picture of,
213

Marsh's course of lectures on the in-
terpretation of the Bible, 79, et seg.;
biblical criticism, its true object, 80;
no book of Scripture extant in the
author's own hand writing, ib.; form

in which the Scriptures ex'sted pre-
viously to the invention of printing,
16.; manuscripts differ in their read-
ings, 81; benefits resulting from bibli-
cal criticism, 82: extract 83; inves-
tigation of single words, ib.; Dr.
Marsh, an advocate for the revision
of the com mon version, 84; rules for
the interpretation of words, ib.; literal
and figurative use of words, 85; alle-
gory, its definition, 86; the Pope's su-
premacy declared in the first chapter of
Genesis,86; remarks on allegorizing texts,
87

Mary 1st, state of religion during her
reign, 267

Mask, what it is, 517

Mathematical tables, by the Rev. W.
A. Barker, 291-3

Mechanics, Bridge's treatise on, 308
Memorial on behalf of the native Irish,

607, et seq.; good effects of the
Gaelic schools, 603; advantages of
teaching the Irish in their own tongue,
609; Dr. Johnson on circulating the
Scriptures, 610

Memory, causes of a bad one, 142
Merbury Francis, his examination before
Bishop Aulmer, 121, et seq.
Mercury, table of its transits, 392
Mesuril, on the East coast of Africa, manu-
factory of M nioca there, 224
Military despotism, its demoralizing
influence, 540

Mind, its faculties not proportionate to
the size of the brain, 334
Miscellaneous papers of John Smeaton,
298, et seq. titles of the papers 299
Mont Perdu, the highest eminence of the
Pyrenean chain, 212

Monte Serrato, its hermitage decribed,.
308

Moon-light, a beautiful description of,
from Southey's Roderick, 365
Moral emancipation must precede poli-
tical freedom, 541

Moral evil, its tendency to perpetuate
its own existence, 537; and to para-
Iyze the mass of the people in regard
to virtuous feeling, 538
Moravians, the public opinion of their
mode of christianizing the Heathen,
founded upon deficient information,
1, et seq.; their mode not different
from that of other missionaries, 8;
eleven brethren slain by the Indians,
11; fail in their first attempt to settle
at Labrador, 12; form settlements
at Nain, Okkak, and Hopedale, 13;
specimen of a Moravian missionary,
157

More's (Mrs. H.) essay on the character
and practical writings of St. Paul,
423; et seq.; chief difficulty of a writer
on Christian morals, ib.; minds of
various orders have respectively their
appropriate scenes of action in their
attempts to improve moral society,
435; causes that have tended to esta-
blish the popularity of Mrs. More
as a Christian Moralist, ib.; deficiency
of her earlier writings in regard to
Christian doctrine, 436; general cha-
racter of her writings, 437, Author's
views in treating on the character of St.
Paul, 437-9; sketch of the contents,
438, et seq.; estimate of Pagan morality,
ib; superiority of the Christian scheme,
439; on St. Peter's remark-that St.
Paul's epistles contain things hard to be
understood, 439, epistles of St. Paul, of
equal authority with the other scriptures,
440; distinction in regard to the cha-
racter of Jesus Christ as exhibited in the
Gospel, and in the Epistles, ik.; in-
stance of an incautious mode of ex-
pression, ib; remarks on the Gospel con-
sidered as being merely a scheme of
words, 412; tendency of the doctrine of
the Cross to raise the tone of moral obli-
gation, 443; obedience requires not only
motives, but inclination and power, 443;
Paul's conduct in regard to ecclesiastical
dignity, ib.; philosophy hostile to Chris-
tian toleration, 444; evils incident to
somnolence of character, 445, Author's
reflections on the speculatists of the Ger-
man school, ib. Mrs. More and Ma-
dame de Stael contrasted, 446; St.
Paul's heavenly mindedness, 600; on
'the love of money,' ib. et seq.; de-
ceptive nature of the principle, ib.
the conduct of mun in his reception of the
Gospel, 603; God, the fountain of our
mercies and virtues, ib.; on prayer, 604 ;
Mrs. More's patriotism, 605; ENGLAND,
remarks on her claims to having evan-
gelized the heathen, &c. 606, estimate
of Mrs. More's work, 607
More's (Mrs. Hannah) sacred dramas,
404.

Mosambique, some account of the Por-
tuguese slave trade at that place,
224, et seq.

Nain, a Moravian settlement formed
there, by Jens Haven, 13

Narrative of repassing the Beresina,

628

Native Irish, memorial of, 607, et seq. ;
good effects of the Gaelic schools,
608; advantages of teaching the frish

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in their native tongue, 609, letter of
of Dr. Johnson, on circulating the scrip-
tures, 610-11

Natural Philosophy, advantages derived
from the study of it, 483
Natural Philosophy, Playfair's outlines
of, 480, et seq.; Dynamics and its sub-
divisions, 481-2; advantages arising
from the study of this science, 483; phy-
sical astronomy, 484; on the gravi-
tation of bodies, 485; disturbing for-
ces of the planets, 487; gravitation a
proof of the original existence and con-
tinued operation of a designing agent,
488; obliquity of the ecliptic, ib.; theo-
rems of Laplace, 489; probability of a
more general principle than the law of
gravitation, 490

Needles, fatal consequences to the work-
man, in that part of the manufacture
called dry grinding, 189

New covering to the velvet cushion, 595,
et seq.; its character, 596, et seq.; the
story with remarks, 597; death of
the Vicar, 599

Negres, de l'interêt de la France à l'egard

de la traite de; par J. C. L. Simonde
de Sismondi, 65
New mathematical tables, by P. Barlow,
291, et seq.

Nonconformist's remains, sermons com-
piled by Richard Slate, 86, et seq.
Nonconformity to the rites and cere-
monies of the established church, its
rise, 267

No salvation out of the Church, M. Gre-
goire's remarks on it, 548

Obedience, Christian, requires not motives,
but inclination and power, 443
Okkak, journal of a voyage from, to
Ungava Bay, by Kohlmeister and
Kmock, 1, et seq.; Moravians, their
high estimation in the opinion of the
world, ib.; its causes explained, 2;
the public opinion founded on false
principles, 3; mode pursued by the
Moravian missionaries in their at-
tempts to convert the Heathen, ib.;
⚫ extract from Spangenberg', 4;
Johannes's account of his conversion,'
5; first mode practised by the Mora-
vians to convert the Greenlanders un-
successful, 7; a different mode adopt-
ed, 8; their plans not different from
those of other missionaries, ib.; civi-
lization considered by the Moravians
as subsequent to conversion, 9;
· se-
cond extract from Spangenberg,' ib.
`et seq.; eleven brethren killed by the
Indians,' 11; present appearance of

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the later missions, not justly to be
estimated by a contrast with the ad-
vanced state of the Moravian mis-
sions, 12; failure of the Moravians
in their first attempt to settle in La-
brador, ib.; Jens Haven renews the
attempt and forms a settlement at
Nain, 13; a second formed at Okkak,
ib.; a third at Hopedale, 13; speci→
men of a Moravian missionary, 157;
state of the Labrador mission in 1812,
ib.; · extracts from their Periodical
Accounts relative to the settlement at
Nain,' 157, et seq.; at Hopedale',
159, el seq.; situation of Okkak and
Ungava Bay, and course of the voy-
age,' 160; extracts from the journal,
161; mountains of Nachvak, 163; Es-
quimaux mode of catching salmon-trout,
164; address of an Esquimaux to his
countrymen, 165; Esquimaux feast,
166; remarkable elevation of the tides,
167; extent of their voyage, 170;
South river, ib.; Kohlmeister's address to
the natives, 171; style and character
of the work, 172; general success of
the mission, ib.; appeal to the Chris-
tian public on the embarrassments of
the Moravian funds, 173

Oliver Heywood, short account of him,
89; extract, ib.

Organs, their situations and external
marks according to Drs. Gall and
Spurzheim, 468

Original lines and translations, 619, et
seq.; extracts, 620-1
Ostrowno, battle of, 630

Oxen, Abyssinian custom of cutting the flesh
from them while living, 417-8; Bruce's
account wantonly false, ib.

Paris, Eustace's Letter from, 74, et seq.
in 1802 and 1814, 72-3

letters from a lady to her sister
during a tour to, in April and May
1814, 73-4

Parkinson, on the specimens of Hippu-
rites from Sicily, 565

Pass, a terrific one, from Albinen to the
baths of Leuck, 557

Paul, St., Mrs. More's essay on the
character and practical writings of,
433, et seq.; her views in writing the
present work, 437-8; contents, 438, et
seq.; estimate of the Pagan morality, ib.;
superiority of the Christian scheme,
439; St. Peter's remark, that the epistles
contain things difficult of comprehension,
439; epistles of equal authority with the
other scriptures, 440; character of Jesus
Christ, as exhibited in the gospel and

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