Auca, the signification of, 113. Authors, on the mistakes of, 157. B. Baragouin, etymology of, 132. Barometer, the utility of, in agriculture, 523. Bath waters, phenomenon of the, 488. Bathurst, Dr. Ralph, his death, 495. Baudius, his Latin verses addressed to his friends, 171. Beards, extraordinary remark relating to, 293. Bentham, on Saxon and Gothic Architecture, 249. Bentley, a passage from one of his Sermons, 246;-on Paradise Bible, various English translations of, 116;-the translators of, Bibles, Manuscript, 16. Biblical difficulties obviated, 93. Birds, their power of digestion, 427; carnivorous, 433. Bleak, on the word, 238. Bones, on the brittleness of, in frosts, 494;-whether oily sub- countries, 460. Bonfire, 202. Borsholder, 201. Bourn, whence derived, 356. Bréviaries, 23. Bristol, fossil bones dug up near, 461. Bull's blood, a poison among the ancients, 414. Burton, his Latin Preface intended for the History of Leicester- shire, 378. Burton, in Sussex, elephants bones found at, 460. Cat in the pan, to turn, 66. Catsgrove, fossils found at, 459. C. Catalogue of the Harleian Library, 8. Catalogues, bock, the utility of, 9, 10. Cats, electricity in, 437. Catullus, critical remark on, 158. Cedars, on the growth of, in England, 512. Central fire in the earth, 420. Cervantes, 358. Cesena, accident which happened to a woman at, 402. Chesable, what, 109, note. Child, gigantic, account of, 519. Chronicles, 25. Cicero, on a passage in his treatise De Senectute, 125;-De Ora- Classic authors perverted, 87. Claudius Etruscus, the bath of, 159. Cleveland, 312. Cochineal, history and culture of, 423. Colours, passages relating to, often obscure, 269. Coluber of Virgil, 471. Cowley, 322. Crashaw, epitaph by, 243;-imitated by Pope, 324. Crowder, as cunning as, 64. D. Daisy, derivation of, 111. De Imitatione Christi, inquiry concerning the real author of that work, 177. Despair, as described by the poets, 338. Devil's verses, 161. Dew, on the phenomenon of, 472. Dido, the silence of, in the infernal shades, 164. Digestion, experiments on, 426. Divining-rod, 527. Don, elephants bones found on the bank of that river, 463. Drayton, 312, 321, 326. Dreams, the causes of, 391;-Joy and grief in, why superior to Dryden, on the English Language, 77;-his description of Night, 478. Dugdale, letter of, 281. E. Earing, explanation of the word, 89, Elden-hole, in Derbyshire, 422. Electricity in cats, 437. Elephant brought into Britain by the Romans, 462. Ellipsis, instances of, in Shakespeare, 127;-observations on that figure, 140. Enfield, dimensions of a cedar at, 513. English language, very vague, 77. Erdeswick, 379. Evaporation, 480, 482. Expressions, local, illustrated, 368. F. Faringdon, fossils found at, 459. Fire, in the earth, 420;-from the bowels of a beast, 445 ;-in- dled of itself, 489. Firm, origin of the word, 245. Flaccus, Valerius, critical remark on, 158. Forster, on Greek accent, 386. Fossil bones discovered in several counties, 460;—in the vicinity Free Martin, account of, 517. Furring, to keep metal pipes or boilers from, 527. G. Gauden, Bp. 54. Gibraltar, bones found in a fragment of the rock, 466. Gossamer, observations on the, 476. Gay, Pope's epitaph on, borrowed, 242. Gellius, Aulus, on the power of music, 414. Gizzard, power of, 428. Gloss, whence derived, 46. Gray, Criticism on his Bard, 237;-addition to his Church-yard Grief, as described by the poets, 338. Griffin, one of the supporters of the Royal Arms, 264. Hammond's Elegies, 243. H. Harleian Library, Catalogue of, 8. Harleian Manuscripts, 15. Harmony, sentimental, 155. Harvey, Dr. his account of the dissection of old Parr, 499. Hedge-hogs, harmless nature of, 516. Hill, account of a moving, 448. Hillingdon, dimensions of a cedar at, 513. History, Ancient Universal, the authors of, 254, 255. Homer, Critical Remarks on Pope's translation of, 273;-on Hooker, a passage from his Eccl. Polity, 247. Horace, critical remarks on, 106, 112, 270, 271, 352. Huetiana, remarks on, 151. James I. at Cambridge, 100. I. Jeffreys, Judge, his intended title, 265. Imagination, effects of, on pregnant women, 395. Imagination, in poetry, 351. Imitation, remarks on, 357. Improbus, the sense of, 38. In, use of the preposition, 74. Incidis in Scyllam, &c. whence taken, 199. Inflammable well, 443. Insects, the cruelty of collectors of, censured, 504. Inscription, Greek, to be read either backwards or forwards, 160;— Johnson, Dr. his Parliamentary Debates, 254;-instance of his Ipswich, natural curiosities found at, 459. Italy, separation of, from Sicily, 279. Judgment, in poetry, 351. Juvenal, a passage in, explained, 102. Langelande, author of Pierce Plowman's Visions, 345. Language, remarks on the analogy of, 173, note. Latter-lammas, 68. Lee, his description of Night, 184. Leicestershire, Burton's History of, 378. Letters, on the introduction of, into Greece, 213. Leviathan, 508. Liturgies, various manuscript, 23. Local expressions, 368. Longevity, curious instance of, 521. M. Macrobius, on the power of music, 414. Manuscripts, Harleian, 15. Marine glow-worms, 435. Marston, his description of Night, 183. Martial, observations on a passage in, 159. Mediterranean, on the influx of water into the, 479. Melancholy, as described by the poets, 338. Mela, Pomponius, a passage in, considered, 131. Metals, mutual attraction of, 527. Michael Angelo, 257. Mickle, his translation of the Luciad, 154. Milton, Imitations and accidental resemblances of, 291;-Warton's Missals, 23. Morses, 109, 'note. Muck, to run a, derivation of the phrase, 143. Music, its effect in acute fevers, 406;-in the bite of the tarantula 408. N. Names retained when their origin is disused, 200. Natural curiosities, where they abound in England, 457. Natural History of Great Britain, heads for, 437. Nepenthes, 475. Newspapers, utility of, 1. Newton, Sir Isaac, on the ancient year, 82;-anecdote of, 248. Nine Love, the phrase of, explained, 239. Nopal, the plant, 424. Northamptonshire, discoveries in making new roads in, 454. |