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INDEX TO VOL. I.

Aber Cataract, 57

Abercorn family, cemetery of the, 277
Aberystwith, parish of, 160
Ablutions, 29

Abraham and the angels, 173.
the fire worshipper, 174

Abyssinia, shepherds of, 67
Acolhuas, 115

Activity, geographical, 234
Adam, 154

Adam's peak, 115

Adams, 148

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Addison, his comparison of 6th book

of Paradise Lost, 238

Admetus and Alcestis, 168

Adonis, river of, held sacred, 10.
Honours paid to him, 10. His
gardens, 11. Flower named after
him, ib.

Adrian on Mount Etna, 187
Aerial landscapes, 335
Ælian, his description of Tempe, 197
Eschylus, his tragedy of Prometheus,

123. 215. Passage from, 273
Etius, his answer to the Britons, 98
Afghauns, tombs of the, 309. Their
hospitality, 180

Aisle, gothic origin of, 91
Akenside, 39

Alabaster pulverized, 164
Albionese, custom among, 318
Alcestis, tragedy of Euripides, 168
Alcithous, 66.

Alexander, invokes rivers as deities,

3. His answer to Parmenio, 216.
Lands in Ceylon, 154. At the
Mouth of the Indus, 223
Alexandrinus, Clemens, 60

Alfieri, his delight at seeing the sea,
226

Alleghany Mountains, 155
Alpina Veronica, 109

Ambrose, St., a passage from, 185
Ambrose, St, 350

Ammonians, custom among the, 40
Amoo, the river of, 120

Amytis, her love for glens and woods,

72

Anacharsis on the Peneus, 18

Anacreon, epitaph on, 307

Analogies of rivers, 19. Vegetable,

78

Anderida, forest of, 97
Andes, 129, 155

Angellucci, his description of the Fata
Margana, 356

Anglesea, island of, 97
Angling, pleasures of, 32

Anglo Saxons worshipped trees, 62
Animals alive to olfactory pleasure,
305

Ant-hills of Sweden, 102

Anthony sups with Cleopatra, 35
Antigone, the tragedy of, 316
Antigua, without rivers, 66
Antinous, 178

Antiochus dedicates a temple to the

defender of strangers, 176
Antiparos, grotto of, 57

Apennines, 152

Apocalypse, 239

Apollonius of Tyana, 226. His rebuke
to the Egyptians, 34

Arabians, manners of, 72. Conquests
of, 126

Arabs, their hospitality, 178

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Barentz, his remarkable voyage, 230
Barthelemy, abbe, 64

Baseness of mankind, instance of, 73
Bathing in rivers, 28

Bauber, emperor, 325
Bears taught to fish, 34.

Beauty, of, 39.

The reverence of

the people of El Bedja for it, 169
Beaver's Hollow, glen of, 209
Bedas of Ceylon, 87

Bedja, El, emerald mines of, 1.69
Bedouin Arabs, 223

Belarius, hospitality of, 176
Bellerophon, 171

Benares, curious custom at, 7
Bergen, Lake of, 132
Bernard, St., monks of, 143
Bernini, statue of the Nile, 21
Beshtau Mountain, 122

Bethgelart, 139

Bibulus, women of, 10

Bienne, lake of, 54

Birds, music of, 259. Marine, cry of,
260. Taught to fish, 84

Blair, 78

Blanc, Mont, the appearance of the
stars on, 339

Bloomfield, fine passage from, 351
Blucher, Marshal, 329

Boerhaave, 147

Bonnet, the pride of Geneva, 56
Bosman, 360

Boudon, king of, his speech to Mr.
Park, 189

Bouhours, a beautiful simile of, 304
Bows, marine, 349

Bramah, first taught the Indians to
worship rivers, 7

Bramins, their placidity of disposition,
74

Bread-fruit tree, 69

Brientz, lake of, 54

Britons, their hospitality, 175. An-

cient manners and customs of, 97
Brockes, tutor to Gessner, 53
Browne, 156. His reflections on be-
holding the Nile, 3

Bruce, his opinion relative to the

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Carpini, 251

Carraccas, climate of, 156

Carthaginians, irhospitality of, 168
Cashel, Father, 331

Castalia, fountain of, 41

Castera, an illustration from, 20
Castle Comber, echo at, 278
Cataracts, 57

Catherine, Mount St., 127
Catulus, 344

Caucasus, the, 122

Caufirs, their hospitality, 180
Causes, final, unknown, 368
Caverns, 50. Oval, 251
Caves, men first lived in, 50
Cedars of Libanus, 102

Celtiberians, their hospitality, 174
Celts, their veneration for rivers, 9
Cemetery, inscription for a, 313
Chaldees, conquests of, 126
Chamois, antelope, 99
Chardin, Sir John, 237

Charles XII., 20

Chatterton, 293

Chenevix, quotation, 249.
Chewyan Indians, 227
Chiavenna, lake of, 54
Chimborazo, 155

Chinese love of flowers, 301
Choaspes, the water of, always drank
by the kings of Persia, 5
Chotopaxi, 155

Chrysostom, St., a saying of his, 178
Churchyards of Wales, &c. 311
Cicero, his love of nature, 58
Ciffusa, fountains of, 42
Circassians, manners of, 74
Claudian, 19. 27. 145
Claudius II., 206

Clemency, the Athenians would not
build a temple to her, 64
Cleopatra, sailing down the Cydnus,

35

Clitumnus, the, 5. 36

Clouds, their colours compared to
gems, 342.
Colour of, 335
Cocoa tree, 68

Code of Justinian, 371

Colonna, his pleasure in climbing
mountains, 145. And Helvidius,
45. On Bala Lake, 52. Observ-
ation on a squirrel, 85. And Hel-
vidius at a spring, 45

Colony, Scotch, at the Isthmus of
Darien, 130

Colophon, fountain of, 41
Colours, beauty of, 329
Comets, 368

Como, lake of, 53

Comparison, we judge of every object
by, 147

Congoese, their hospitality, 171. Their
graves, 319

Conrad of Wurzburg, 272

Consecration of groves, 60. For-

bidden by Moses, 60
Constance, lake of, 54. 194
Conway, falls of, 57

Cook, his reflections in Eooa, 129
Corpus Sanctum, 360
Corycium grotto, 48

Cow, consequence of the, lessened, 71
Coxe, 146. 150

Cracow, fountain of, 43
Croesus, passes the Halys, 12
Cream-fruit of Sierra Leone, 71
Crucis, vale of, 209

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De Pages, 39

Depth of the sea, 231. Description
of, 88

Dido, her hospitality, 166

Discovery, maritime, 229

Distance, comparatively annihilated in
mountainous regions, 159
Dodona, fountain of, 41
Dorset, Anna, her history, 320
Douglas, Colonel, of York Place, 287
Douglas, Gawin, quotation from, 267
Dovedale, 201

Druids, conduct of, 98

Drummond of Hawthornden, 131
Drury-Lane Theatre, committee of,
their unjust conduct, 284
Dryads, 63

Dubois, painter of fountains, 40
Du Bos, 79

Dugores, groves of, 63
Du Halde, 11

Dutch, fishery of the, 32
Dyer, quotation from, 364

Ecclesiastes, quotation from, 75
Echo, a canzonet, 284
Echoes, on, 275

Echoicus, the, 283

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Fairies, 254

Fata Margana, 355

Ferdousee's satire on Mahmoud, 80
Feudal system, origin of the, 371
Filefield, mountain of, 116

Fire, in what manner produced among

savage nations, 95
Fisheries, productive, 32
Fishing, right of, 31
Fitzkili, anecdote of, 116
Florentines, 1

Flowers thrown into fountains, rivers,
&c. 44

Fohi, surnamed the Flower-loving, 351
Fontaine, La, anecdote of, 188
Fontenelle, and Du Bos, 79. 289
Fontinalia, 44

Forbes, 179. His description of a
monsoon, 294

Ford, an extract from, 200

Forests, 59. Of South America, 56
Fortune, ill, 46

Fountains held sacred, 37. Medicinal.
42

Fracastorius, fountain of, 37. His
poem of Siphylus, 66

Francis, St., on Mount Avernus, 124
Franklin, his opinion relative to the
aurora borealis, 354

Gaeta, promontory of, 115
Galen, 118. Why he travelled, 188
Gama, 149

Ganges held sacred, 6. Affection of
the Hindoos, 7. Its source, 9
Gauls, their hospitality, 175
Gellius, Aulus, 218
Gems, 345

Geneva, lake of, 54
Genghiskhan, 65
Genio Loci, 59

Genius, argument relative to ancient
and modern, 79

Gentoos, esteem the Ganges holy, 6.
Their belief relative to thunder, &c.
296

Geography, Romans ignorant of Asi-
atic, 25

Geometry defines man, 162
Gerizim, Mount, 118

Germanicus visits the fountain of
Colophon, 41

Germans, their hospitality, 175
Gessner, 53. His love of Nature, ib.
His monument, ib.

Gibbon, his residence at Geneva, 55
Gideon, 64

Giggleswick, springs rise and fall with
the tide, 43
Gleaning, 161

Glen, Prince Regent's, 58
Glover, anecdote of, 124
Gnat, Virgil's poem of the, 307
Goethe, 223

Gold mine discovered in a remarkable
manner, 295

Goths, law in respect to hospitality,

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Hapsburg, house of, 19
Harvest scene, a, 161

Hastings, Warren, causes Nuncomar
to be executed, 6

Hawkesbury river, rapidity of its in-
undations, 26

Heat, one of the causes of motion, 368
Heart, human, compared to medicinal
trees, 80

Height and depth, 183

Heliogabalus, his use of perfumes, 304
Helvidius, 45, and Colonna at a spring,
90. Among the mountains of
Snowdonia, 111

Hercules and Admetus, 169. Her-
cules, the wreck of, 170. Hercules
and Narcissus, 275

Hercynian, the leaves of, held sacred,

65

Hernandez, quotation from, 261
Heroes, 205

Herodotus, travels of, 187

Himala Mountains, 120. 157

Hindoo and Persian, anecdote of, 89
Hindoos, custom among the, 44.

Their inhospitality, 179

Hipparchus, 108

Hippolito, Cardinal, 189

Hoangho river, colour of, 11

Holy Mountain, 114

Horeb, Mount, 118-120

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