Polar winter, reflections on, i. 27,
Pope quoted, passim.
Poppy, lines to the, i. 196, note. Price, Mr. opinion on the origin of minerals, ii, 343. Priestley, Dr. experiments and observations on air, i. 128, 153, 158. Cautions respecting light- ning, ii. 98.
Prior quoted, i. 90; ii. 251. Psalms of David quoted, passim. Ptolemaic system, account of, i.
Purpura, curious contrivance of, ii. 334. Pyrenees, shells found in, under beds of stone, ii. 334. Pyrites, inflammable nature of, ii. 144. Analysis of, ib. Large quantity of, takes fire, at Whit- stable, in Kent, 145. The cliffs near Charmouth, ignited from containing pyrites, 146. Q.
Quadrupeds, physical and mental changes in, i. 359. Partial mi- grations of, ii. 263. Wonderful instinct of, 272. On the habita- tions of, 290. Queen-bee, affection of the hive for, i. 384. M. Huber's observa- tions respecting, 386, 387. One made from the grubs of workers,
Quicksilver, properties of, ii. 345. R.
Rain, phenomena of, explained, i. 120.
Rainbow, poetically described, ii. 62.
Rains, part of the ocean so called, i. 12.
Rats, singular migrations of, in Norway, ii. 263, 264. In Kamt- schatka, 317.
Ravens, artifices of, ii. 318. Rays, coloured, of the sun, ii. 65.
Reaumur, discoveries of relative
to bees, i. 380. On the internal economy and manners of wasps,
Account of an immense bed of oyster-shells, 334. Redbreast, lines to, i. 5, 6. Recupero, Canon, objections to the Mosaic account of the crea- tion refuted, ii. 151–153. Refraction, phenomenon of, ex- plained, ii. 57.
Red Sea, beautiful appearance of its bed, ii. 204.
Reimar, M. observations on the nature of instinct, ii. 274, 275. Reindeer, the support of the Lap- lander, i. 42.
Republic, instance of a perfect one, ii. 301. Revelation, objections to, deduced from volcanic phenomena, re- futed, ii. 148.
Reverie, what, i. 207, note. Richer, M. observations on the pendulum, i. 97.
Rivers and fountains, remarks on, 170. Poetical and philosophi- cal descriptions of, 172-178. Of the progress of a river to the sea, 179. Lines on one by Dr. Hawkesworth, 180.
Robinson, Mrs. lines on insects, i. 330.
Roebuck, habits of, ii. 312. Po-
etically described, 313. Rose, lines to, i. 255. Russell, Dr. lines to a lady fearful of thunder, ii. 100. Russians, their attempt to colo- nize the country of Spitzber- gen, i. 39. Their mode of life there, 40,41. Picturesque lines on the inhabitants, ib.
S. Safety-lamp, account of, i. 132,
Saintfoin, crop of, how prema- turely destroyed, ii. 211. Saint Kilda, immense perpendicu- lar height of its coast, ii, 200. Transmigration of birds to, 243, 244. And disappearance from, poetically described, ib. Saint Paul quoted, i. 178. Saint
Paul's cathedral, echo in, ii. 79.
Saint Petersburgh, account of a beautiful phenomenon there, in winter, i. 24.
Saint Pierre's account of the clouds in the Tropics, i. 113. Salmon, migration of, ii. 264. Singular care of, in depositing its spawn, 265. Rapid growth of, ib. Immense number taken in the Tweed, 266.
Salt, observations on the solution of, i. 117. Bay salt and common salt, how made, ii. 188. Saltness of the sea, various opini-
ons on, ii. 180-185. See SEA. Samoeids, their mode of life, i. 41.
Sandys quoted, i. 17.
Sap, on the circulation of, in plants, i. 285. Lines on, 297. Satellites, account of, i. 71. Saturn, account of this planet, i. 68.
Savages, extremes of indolence
and activity in, ii. 262. Savage quoted, i. 74, 319. Savary, M. picturesque reflections during a voyage, ii. 204. Scorpion described, i. 344. Scott, John, quoted, i. 5, 37, 46,
Scripture, passage in, explained, i.
ing from its saltness, 192. Fro- zen with difficulty, ib. Ice formed from snow on its surface, 193. Luminous appearance of, 196. Revolutions produced on the earth by, 199. Lands given and taken away by, at pleasure, 201. Holland, a conquest from the sea, 202. The contrary in the Goodwin Sands, ib. The country about Ely once over- whelmed by, ib. 203. Pic- turesque description of the bed of, 204. Reflections on a sea voyage, ib. 205.
Sea-breezes, phenomenon of, i. 13.
Sea-pies, singular construction of their bills, ii. 237.
Seasons, harmony of the, i. 6-8. On the variety and vicissitudes of, 181. Lines on the progress of, 183, 192. Characteristics of, 186. Peculiar beauties of each, ii. 205, 206.
Seed, on the vivifying of, i. 288.
On the covering of, 290, note. The whole plant contained in, 291. Curious circumstance of self-sowing, 292. Manner in which seeds are dispersed, ib. 293, 298, note. Motions of, when sown in a reversed posi- tion, 297. On the plume of, 298, note.
Sejour, M. Du, theory of comets, i. 76. Seneca quoted, i. 138. Probable prediction of the mariner's com- pass by, ii. 126. Sensation, degrees of, in plants, i. 302.
Senses in general, observations on, ii. 83, 89.
Sea, wonders of, poetically de- scribed, ii. 177. Quantity of water in, always the same, 178, and note. Time necessary to re- fill, supposing it exhausted of water, 179. Remarks on its saltness, 180. Various theories of, 181-185. Poetical opinion on the subject, 186. Singular stagnation of, near the Azores, 187. On the various motions of, ib. Account of bay salt and common salt, ib. Difference between sea-water and fresh, 188. Comparative weight of, in dry and wet weather, 190. The sea equally salt at all depths, 191. Advantages aris-Sheep, migration of, in Orkney
Sensitive plant, on its faculty of
motion, i. 295. Poetically de- scribed, ib.
Sexual system, view of, i. 260. Shakspeare quoted, passim. Shaw, Dr. address to the swallow,
and Shetland, ii. 263. Remark- able sagacity of, in the choice of their food, 279. Sheppey, isle of, in Kent, extrane-
ous fossils found there, ii. 336. Shetland, beauty of the aurora bo- realis there, i. 29. Migration of sheep in, ii. 263. Great shoals of herrings there, 266. Ship-building, origin and progress of, ii. 159. Poetically describ- ed, 161. Construction and bulk of a large ship, 165. Its vast freightage, ib. Gradual pro- gress of navigation, ib. 166. Picturesque description of a ship, ib. Immense quantity of provisions required for a large ship's company, 167.
Siberia, species of aurora borealis in, i. 30.
Sight, the most perfect of our senses, ii. 68.
Silene, poetically described, i. 301. Its flowers closed all day, 305.
Sleep, reflections on, i. 193. Poe- tical eulogies of, 195, 196, note. Philosophical remarks on, 197. Fine contrast between a sound sleep and a restless night, by Shakspeare,199. Beautiful epi- gram on, 200. Sir T. Browne's address to, 201. Great abuse of, ii. 34. See DREAMS. Smell, philosophical account of, ii. 85.
Smellie, Dr. on vegetation, i. 303. Smellie, Mr. reasons to prove the
submersion of swallows, impos- sible, ii. 256. On the archi- tecture of the beaver, 300. Smith, Charlotte, lines on night- flowers, i. 301.
Snail, wandering into a bee-hive, how attacked and killed, and buried by the bees, i. 382. Snow, reflections on, i. 17. De- scriptions of, from the bible, ib. From Homer and Lucretius, 18. From Thomson, 19, 20. Philo-
sophical account of, 20-22. Curious phenomenon of, in Russia, 22. To make artificial snow, 23. Uses of snow, 23--25. Society, the natural state of man, ii. 225. Among animals, 226. Origin and progress of, 227- 230. Innumerable advantages of, to man, 231. These poeti- cally described, 232.
Solar System, reflections on the, i. 57.
Solstice, winter, account of, i. 4. Solution, Dr. Hamilton's theory of, i. 116.
Somerville quoted, ii. 272, 313. Sound, reflections on, ii. 75. Phi- losophical account of, 76. Of echoes, 77. Structure of the ear, 80. Sparrows, instinctive sagacity of, ii. 241.
Spiders, species of, described, i. 343. Lines on, 344. Peculiar faculty of, ii. 238, note. Curious particulars of certain species, 302.
Spitzbergen, singular and majestic forms assumed by the ice there, i. 33. Ice-bergs or glaciers of, 35. Magnificent description of these icy regions, 36. Single night of, 37. The country de- scribed, 38, 39. Account of Russian and English mariners left here, 39. Manners of the inhabitants, 40, 41. Poetical tribute to, 41. Spring, characteristics of, i. 186, 213. Poetical description of, 211-214. Moral effects of upon the reflecting mind, 216. These poetically enumerated, 217. Various beauties of, 218. Sonnet to, 220. Moral reflec- tions on, 221. Spring-fly, account of, i. 339. Staffordshire, fossil shells found in, ii. 335.
Stag, artifices of, to deceive the dogs, ii. 310.
Stanhope, earl, on the damage
done by lightning, ii. 98, note. Statius quoted, i. 193, 194. Stork, wonderful instinct of, ii. 243. Annual assembly of, 246. The same poetically described,
247. Storms and tempests, moral re- flections on, i. 14-16. Of thunder and lightning, poetical- ly described, ii. 92. Stratus, a modification of clouds, described, i. 123. Suffolk, extraneous fossils found in, ii. 335.
Migrate to Africa, ib. Lines on the re-appearance of, in Eng- land, ib. 250. Address to, by Dr. Shaw, 251. Lines on the retreat of, 252. Seen on a ship near the coast of Senegal, 253. Various opinions on the tor- pidity of, ib. 254. Wonderful submersion of, and manner of their revival, 255, 256. Rea- sons to prove this impossible, ib. 257. Opinion of Buffon, 258. Of Pennant, 260. Lines on their quitting England, ib. 261. Great number of eggs lain by one, 299. Swarms of bees, M. Huber's con- clusions respecting, i. 387.
Taste, philosophical account of, ii.
Taylor-bird, wonderful effect of animal instinct in, ii. 239-240,
Thales, his opinion of the element- ary nature of water, i. 159. Theism and atheism, common cir- cumstance in which they agree, ii. 365.
Summer, character of, i. 187. Re- flections on, ii. 24. Various beauties of, 26. Various parts of a summer's day, as described by Thomson, 27. Summer's eve, by Kirke White, 29, note. Picturesque description of a summer's day, 30, 31. Sun, glorious show at the rising of, ii. 38. Picturesque effect of, up- on the morning landscape, 39. This poetically described, 40. Hymn to God at sun-rise, 41. Reflections on, 44. Philosophi- cal account of, 45. Of the spots on its surface, 46. Dr. Hers-Thomson's Seasons, a philosophi- chel's opinion on, 49. Proba- bility of its being inhabited, 50. On the coloured rays of, 65. Sun and moon standing still, il- lustration of this part of scrip- ture, i. 96, note. Sun-flower, lines on its turning toward the sun, i. 298. Supreme Being, reflections on the
existence of, i. 46. Evidence of one from the various objects of nature, 47, 48. Arguments to prove, 48-54. Observations on the Divine Benevolence, 54 -56. Irresistible indications of, ii. 364. Swallows, flocks of, observed on churches, rocks, &c. previously to migration, ii. 248. Rigging of a ship covered with, 249.
cal, as well as moral and de- scriptive poem, i. 191. Thunder and lightning, poetical description of a storm of, ii. 92. In the torrid zone, 94. The ancients fearful of, 99, note. Thunder-storm, greatest security against its terrors, ii. 99. Lines written in one, ib. 100. To a lady fearful of thunder, ib. State of the clouds in, repre- sented by an experiment, 109. Tickell quoted, i. 254. Tides, reflections on the nature of, ii. 169. Effect of the moon upon, 171. Remarkable high tides, 175. Time's Telescope noticed, i. 72, note, 79, ib. Titmouse, long-tailed, extraordi-
nary formation of its nest, ii. 238, 239, 295. Pensile nest of the hang-nest titmouse, 296. Torricelli observes the pressure of the atmosphere, i. 139. Cele- brated experiment of, 140. Touch, philosophical account of, ii. 87.
Touraine, immense bed of oyster- shells in, ii. 334. Tournefort, M. on the origin of
minerals, ii. 341, 342. Trade winds, account of, i. 13. Tragopogon closes its flowers in the day, i. 305. Transformation of insects, reflec- tions on, i. 346. On transforma- tion in general, 357. Of plants, 361. In the mineral kingdom, 362. Lines on the transforma- tion of man, 365. Trees, and other vegetables, fre- quented by bees, i. 379. Va- riety of colours assumed by the fading leaves of, ii. 206, 208. Triumphetti, M. observations on vegetation, i. 293. Tropical flowers, i. 299. Tufa, nature and properties of, ii. 156, note. Tulip-root, experiment with, i. 305. Poetical description of its retiring to its hybernacle, 306. Tweed, immense number of sal- mon taken in, ii. 266.
Ulloa, Don Juan, account of a journey to the Andes, ii. 356 -360.
Van Helmont, M. his opinion of water, i. 160. Vegetables and trees frequented by bees, i. 379, note. Vegetation, influence of snow up- on, i. 24-26. Of air on, 145, 149. Of vegetation on air, 149. Account of various experiments on, 150. Food of plants, 152, note. On the sexes of vegetables, 261. Reflections on vegetation,
278. Process of, in a bean, 288. Various phenomena in the ve- getable kingdom, 294. Venus, account of this planet, i. 64.
Venus's fly-trap, account of, i.
296. Poetically described, 297. Vernal reflections, i. 211. See SPRING.
Vesta, discovery of this planet, i.
Vesuvius, eruptions of, ii. 149. Village-Curate quoted, ii. 238. Virgil quoted, i. 8, 31, note; 230,
373; ii. 23, 77, 138, 205. Vision, reflections on, i. 67. Sight, the most perfect of our senses, 68. Anatomical descrip- tion of the eye, 69. Experiment with the eye of an ox, 71. Phenomena in the theory of, 72. Volcanos, reflections on, ii. 138. Poetical descriptions of Mount Etna, 139. Philosophical ac- count of, by Dr. Watson, 140- 147. To make an artificial one, 142. Remarks on, by Sir W. Hamilton, 155-157. Voltaism, discovery of, ii. 111. This science extended by Sir Humphry Davy, 112.
W. Wager, Sir Charles, account of swallows seen on a ship in the British Channel, ii. 249. Walker, Mr. his translations from the Danish, quoted, i. 45. Walpole, Horace, his observations on gardening noticed, i. 277. Wasps, on the wonderful ingenuity
of, ii. 1. Particular account of their cells, 2. Their subter- raneous city extremely popu- lous, 3. Different stories of their combs, 4. Observations of Reaumur on their internal eco- nomy and manners, 5. Mate- rials employed in constructing their nests, 6. Number of neu- ters or labourers, ib. Immense number of cells in a nest, 8.
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