Antients, their fear of thunder, ii. 99. note. Build a temple to Jupiter Tonans, ib.
Antiparos, grotto of, noticed, ii.
Ant-lion, artifice and address of, ii. 319. Ants, particulars of, i. 341. As- sociation and economy of, ii. 12. Collections of larvæ mis- taken for corn, 13. M. Huber's observations on, ib. Division of, into males, females, and neuters, 14. The brown ant, ib. Aphis, its liquor, a food for ants, ii. 13.
Apiary, account of one named after the different kingdoms, i. 385. note. Archangel, inhabitants of its eastern coasts, i. 41. Architecture, singular, of the beaver, ii. 285, 286. Reflec- tions on, 300. Arenaria, poetically described, i. 301.
Ariosto quoted, i. 180. note. 194. ib.
Aristotle's definition of snow, i. 18. Art, inferiority of its works to those of nature, i. 312. Espe- cially when viewed by the mi- croscope, 313.
Artifices, wonderful, of animals, ii. 309. Of birds, 318. Of the insect tribes, 319. Association, reflections on the principle of, ii. 225. Exem- plified among animals, 226. In man, 227. Origin and progress of society, 229. Advantages of, to man, 231. Astronomy, enriched by the la- bours of Kings, i. 57. Praises of, from the Night Thoughts, 58. Dignity of, 59. Account of the Ptolemaic system, 60. Of the Copernican system, 62. Account of comets, 73. On a plurality of worlds, 85. Atheism and Theism, common
circumstance in which they agree, ii. 365. Atmosphere. See AIR. Atmospheric Air, composition of, i. 135, 136.
Attraction, Newtonian system of, i. 104.
Aurelia, account of, i. 349. Aurora Borealis, account of, in Shetland, i. 29. Singular spe- cies of, in Siberia, 30. In Hud- son's bay, 31. Lines descrip. tive of, ii. 113. note. Philo- sophical account of, i. 31, 32; ii. 112. Supposed to be por- tentous of great events, 113. Lines on, ib. Remarkable ap- pearances of this phenomenon, 114, 115. Nature of, 116. Im- portance of, to navigators, 117. Autumn, character of, i. 187. Picturesque appearances of, ii. 205-208. Changes of the forest in, 214.
Azores, singular stagnation of the sea near, ii. 187.
B. Bacon, Lord, his discovery of fac- titious air, i. 130.
Balguy, Dr. beautiful quotation from, i. 53.
Balloon, how a representation of the earth, i. 100.
Barbauld, Mrs. quoted, i. passim. Barrington, Mr. arguments for the torpidity of swallows, ii. 253.
Bass isles, flights of birds at, ii. 244.
Bay salt, account of, ii. 188. Beccaria, Sig. observations, on
snow, i. 21. Cautions respect- ing lightning, ii. 98. Bean, process of vegetation in one, i. 288.
Beattie, Dr. Minstrel quoted, i.
114, 270; ii. 41. Observations on Dreams, i. 208. Beaver, force of instinct exem- plified in, ii. 281. Their near approach to human under-
standing, ib. Their wonderful sagacity, 282. Description of the American beaver, ib. 283.) Manner of forming their ha- bitations, 285, 286. Their pe- culiar situation and orderly ar- rangement, ib. Superintendant of their works, 287. Number of houses in each pond, ib. As- sociate in pairs, ib. Winter stock of food, 288. Almanack of the savages, ib. Actuated by instinct in their architec- ture, 289. Remarks on the in- telligence of, 300.
Bees, on the wonderful opera- tions of, i. 373. Political eco- nomy of, 374. Lines descrip- tive of, ib. 375, 376. Skill and dexterity of the honey-bees in the formation of their combs, 376. Curious observation of their labours with glass-hives, 377. Their cells designed for various purposes, 378.
Sub- division of labour among them, ib. How they make their wax, 379. Blasted trees and vege-, tables most frequently visited by them, ib. note. Their pro- cess of making honey, 380. Curious use of glue, 381. At- tack and kill snails that wander into the hive, 382. Feed their hungry companions, 383. Af- fection for their queen, 384. M. Buffon's idea of a mecha- nical impulse refuted, 385. Associating principle of, ib. Lines descriptive of, i. Ana- lysis of M. Huber's discoveries respecting, 386, 387. Par- ticulars of the mason bees, ii. 15. Manner of constructing their nests, ib. 16. Account of the wood-piercer, a solitary bee, 19. Economy of other species of solitary bees, 22. Beetle tribe, lines on, i. 334. Beings, reflections on the chain of, in the universe, ii. 216.
Gradations of intelligence, 217. Scale of intellect among man- kind, 218 Characters by which beings are distinguished from each other, 220, Man not the sole end of the creation, 222. Benevolence of the Deity, ob- servations on, i. 5. Bernier, M. his opinion on the saltness of the sea, ii. 185. Bethlem, star of, poetically de- scribed, i. 300.
Biberg, M. observations on the migration of birds, ii. 246. Birds, natural planters of trees, i. 293. Physical changes in, 359. First creation of, poe- tically described, ii. 233. Re- flections on the passion of the groves, 234. Beautiful uni- formity in the structure of, 235. Anatomical construction of, 236. Instinct and industry of, 238. Their choice of par- ticular spots, 240, 241. On the migration of, 243-261. Wonderful instinct of, 277, 279. On the variety in the construction of their nests, 294 -299. On the marriage or pairing of, 305. This poe- tically described, 306-308. Birth of the butterfly, a poem, i. 371-373.
Bitch, remarkable instance of af- fection in one, ii. 302. Black, Dr. discoveries in aero- logy, i. 131. Blackmore quoted, i. 46, 93, 171,
241, 278; ii. 54, 186, 362. Blink of the ice, what, i. 33. Bloomfield quoted, i. 114. Blossoms, lines to, i. 215. Boerhaave, M. on the doctrine of mineral fermentation, ii. 342. Bologna-stone, account of, ii. 55.
Bonnet, M. observations on the sagacity of beavers, ii. 288. Botanic garden quoted, i. 159, 295-298, 304, 306.
Boyle, Mr. experiment on air, no- ticed, i. 132. On the saltness of the sea, ii. 182. On the origin of minerals, 343. Boyse quoted, i. 325; ii. 120. Broome quoted, i. 17, 48. Browne, Sir Thomas, lines on sleep, i. 201.
Browne, Moses, quoted, i. 311. Brownrigg, Dr. discoveries in aerology, i. 131.
Brutes, reflections on the instinct of, ii. 272, 301. See INSTINCT. Brydone's Tour in Sicily noticed, ii. 150.
Buffon, M. his idea of a mecha- nical impulse in the economy of bees refuted, i. 385. periments with swallows, ii. 257. Opinion on their tor- pidity and migration, 258. Theory of instinct, 273.
Carter, Mrs. lines written on a thunder storm, ii. 99, 100. Cartesian philosophers, their the- ory of evaporation, i. 115. Casa quoted, i. 195. Castle of Indolence quoted, i. 270.
Caterpillar, structure of, i. 350. Curious particulars of their transformation, 354, 356. Of their economy, ii. 308. Cavendish, Mr. discoveries in aërology, i. 131.
Caverns and labyrinths, account of various, ii. 327. Cayenne, observations made af, i. 97.
Cells of wasps, wonderful con- struction of, ii. 10.
Centrifugal force, what, i. £9, Centripetal force, what. i. 99. Re-Ceres, discovery of this planet, i.
marks on the various beds of earth, 323. Goldsmith's beau- tiful remarks upon his theory of the earth, 332. note. Bulbous root, what, i. 305. Burns quoted, i. 3. Butterflies, formation of their wings, i. 338. On the beauty and varieties of, 365. Splen- dour of foreign ones, 366. Lines by Lord Byron on, ib. Extreme beauty of, when ex- amined by the microscope, 367, 368. Down on the wings of, what, ib. 369. note. Moral reflections on the transforma tion of, 370. Names of the most splendid butterflies seen in England, ib. note. Birth of the butterfly, a poem, 371- 373.
Cereus, night blowing one, account of, i. 304. Poetically described, ib. Charmouth, the cliffs near, take fire from containing a large quantity of pyrites, ii. 146. Chatterton quoted, i, 64, 68. Chaucer quoted, i. 205. China, magnificent butterflies in, i. 366, 377. Nest of a non- descript bird in, a peculiar de- licacy, ii. 298.
Chrysalis state of insects, i. 347. Churchill quoted, i. 375. Cicero quoted, i. 57, 138, 212; ii. 74, 89, 129. Cichorium, poetically described, i. 301. Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus, and
Cirrus, modifications of clouds described, i. 124. Clarke, Dr. E. D. account of a beautiful phenomenon in the winter at St. Petersburgh, i.
Clarke on the being and attributes. of God, noticed, i. 49. Claudian quoted, i. 93; ii. 159.
Climate, moral reflections on the | Cucurbita lagenaria, flowers of,
inclemency of, i. 44. Clouds, reflections on, i. 112. Fantastic forms of, 112-114. Philosophical account of, 115. New nomenclature of, 122. Cockroach described, i. 335. Colours, reflections on, ii. 10. Philosophy of, noticed by the poets, 61. Various phenomena of, 63. Dr. Herschel's ob-
servations on the colours in the sun's rays, 65. Comets, reflections on, i. 73. Po- pular superstitions respecting, ib. Poetically described, 74, 75. Philosophical account of,76, 80. Remarkable ones, 81, 84. Condillac, M. theory of instinct, ii. 273, 274.
Copenhagen, poetical description of the winter there, i. 28,
close at sunset, i, 305. Cudworth, Dr. theory of instinct, ii. 272.
Cumulostratus and cumulus, mo- difications of clouds, described, i. 123, 124. Cuneus, M. discoverer of the Leyden phial, ii. 105.
D. Daisy, poetically described, i.
Dalton, Mr. hypothesis of the winds, noticed, i. 14. note. Ob- servations on atmospheric air, 137, 138. Experiments on eva- poration, noticed, 179. note. Danish, poems from, quoted, i.
Darwin, Dr. quoted, i. 159, 161.
Davies, Sir J. quoted, ii. 83, 84. Davy, Sir Humphry, his safety- lamp noticed, i. 132. note. Observations on atmospheric air, 137. His extension of the science of Voltaism, ii. 112. Day and night, on the alternate succession of, i. 181. Deer-kind, their arts to deceive the dogs, ii. 310. Battles of the fallow-deer in parks for pasture, 311. Deity, doctrine of, satisfactorily explains the system of the uni- verse, ii. 366.
De Lille quoted, i. 211, 275;
Derbyshire, fossil shells found in, ii. 335.
Derham, Dr. observations on air, i. 146, 147.
Des Cartes, theory of fountains, i. 171. Of instinct, ii. 272, 273. On the origin of metals, 341.
Dew, poetical eulogies of, i. 230 -233. Philosophical account of, 233-238. Peculiar bene- fits of, 238-Recent theory of Dr. Wells, 240.
Boyle, Mr. experiment on air, no- ticed, i. 132. On the saltness of the sea, ii. 182. On the origin of minerals, 343. Boyse quoted, i. 325; ii. 120. Broome quoted, i. 17, 48. Browne, Sir Thomas, lines on sleep, i. 201.
Browne, Moses, quoted, i. 311. Brownrigg, Dr. discoveries in aerology, i. 131.
Brutes, reflections on the instinct
of, ii. 272, 301. See INSTINCT. Brydone's Tour in Sicily noticed, ii. 150.
Carter, Mrs. lines written on a thunder storm, ii. 99, 100. Cartesian philosophers, their the- ory of evaporation, i. 115. Casa quoted, i. 195. Castle of Indolence quoted, i.
Caterpillar, structure of, i. 350. Curious particulars of their transformation, 354, 356. Of their economy, ii. 308. Cavendish, Mr. discoveries in aërology, i. 131.
Caverns and labyrinths, account of various, ii. 327. Cayenne, observations made at, i. 97.
Cells of wasps, wonderful con- struction of, ii, 10. Centrifugal force, what, i. 99, Centripetal force, what. i. 99. Re-Ceres, discovery of this planet, i. 65, 66.
Buffon, M. his idea of a mecha- nical impulse in the economy of bees refuted, i. 385. Ex- periments with swallows, ii. 257. Opinion on their tor- pidity and migration, 258. Theory of instinct, 273. marks on the various beds of earth, 323. Goldsmith's beau- tiful remarks upon his theory of the earth, 332, note. Bulbous root, what, i. 305. Burns quoted, i. 3. Butterflies, formation of their wings, i. 338. On the beauty and varieties of, 365. Splen- dour of foreign ones, 366. Lines by Lord Byron on, ib. Extreme beauty of, when ex- amined by the microscope, 367, 368. Down on the wings of, what, ib. 369, note. Moral reflections on the transforma- tion of, 370. Names of the most splendid butterflies seen in England, ib. note. Birth of the butterfly, a poem, 371-
Cactus, grandiflorus, account of, i.
304. Poetically described, ib. Campion, viscous, its flowersclosed all day, i. 305. Carnation, account of one, exa- mined by a microscope, i.' 315.
Cereus, night blowing one, account of, i. 304. Poetically described, ib. Charmouth, the cliffs near, take fire from containing a large quantity of pyrites, ii. 146. Chatterton quoted, i, 64, 68. Chaucer quoted, i. 205. China, magnificent butterflies in, i. 366, 377. Nest of a non- descript bird in, a peculiar de- licacy, ii. 298.
Chrysalis state of insects, i. 347. Churchill quoted, i. 375. Cicero quoted, i. 57, 138, 212; ii. 74, 89, 129. Cichorium, poetically described, i. 301. Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus, and
Cirrus, modifications of clouds described, i. 124. Clarke, Dr. E. D. account of a beautiful phenomenon in the winter at St. Petersburgh, i.
Clarke on the being and attributes. of God, noticed, i. 49. Claudian quoted, i. 93; ii. 159.
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