INDEX TO VOL. I. Aber Cataract, 57 Abercorn family, cemetery of the, 277 Abraham and the angels, 173. Abyssinia, shepherds of, 67 Activity, geographical, 234 Adam's peak, 115 Adams, 148 And Addison, his comparison of 6th book of Paradise Lost, 238 Admetus and Alcestis, 168 Adonis, river of, held sacred, 10. Adrian on Mount Etna, 187 123. 215. Passage from, 273 Aisle, gothic origin of, 91 Alabaster pulverized, 164 Alexander, invokes rivers as deities, 3. His answer to Parmenio, 216. Alfieri, his delight at seeing the sea, Alleghany Mountains, 155 Ambrose, St., a passage from, 185 Ammonians, custom among the, 40 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 Angellucci, his description of the Fata Anglesea, island of, 97 Anglo Saxons worshipped trees, 62 Ant-hills of Sweden, 102 Anthony sups with Cleopatra, 35 Antiochus dedicates a temple to the defender of strangers, 176 Apennines, 152 Apocalypse, 239 Apollonius of Tyana, 226. His rebuke Arabians, manners of, 72. Conquests Arabs, their hospitality, 178 Barentz, his remarkable voyage, 230 Baseness of mankind, instance of, 73 Bauber, emperor, 325 Beauty, of, 39. The reverence of the people of El Bedja for it, 169 Bedja, El, emerald mines of, 1.69 Belarius, hospitality of, 176 Benares, curious custom at, 7 Bethgelart, 139 Bibulus, women of, 10 Bienne, lake of, 54 Birds, music of, 259. Marine, cry of, Blair, 78 Blanc, Mont, the appearance of the Bloomfield, fine passage from, 351 Boerhaave, 147 Bonnet, the pride of Geneva, 56 Boudon, king of, his speech to Mr. Bouhours, a beautiful simile of, 304 Bramah, first taught the Indians to Bramins, their placidity of disposition, Bread-fruit tree, 69 Brientz, lake of, 54 Britons, their hospitality, 175. An- cient manners and customs of, 97 Bruce, his opinion relative to the Carpini, 251 Carraccas, climate of, 156 Carthaginians, irhospitality of, 168 Castalia, fountain of, 41 Castera, an illustration from, 20 Catherine, Mount St., 127 Caucasus, the, 122 Caufirs, their hospitality, 180 Celtiberians, their hospitality, 174 Charles XII., 20 Chatterton, 293 Chenevix, quotation, 249. Chinese love of flowers, 301 Chrysostom, St., a saying of his, 178 Clemency, the Athenians would not 35 Clitumnus, the, 5. 36 Clouds, their colours compared to Code of Justinian, 371 Colonna, his pleasure in climbing Colony, Scotch, at the Isthmus of Colophon, fountain of, 41 Como, lake of, 53 Comparison, we judge of every object Congoese, their hospitality, 171. Their Conrad of Wurzburg, 272 Consecration of groves, 60. For- bidden by Moses, 60 Cook, his reflections in Eooa, 129 Cow, consequence of the, lessened, 71 Cracow, fountain of, 43 De Pages, 39 Depth of the sea, 231. Description Dido, her hospitality, 166 Discovery, maritime, 229 Distance, comparatively annihilated in Druids, conduct of, 98 Drummond of Hawthornden, 131 Dubois, painter of fountains, 40 Dugores, groves of, 63 Dutch, fishery of the, 32 Ecclesiastes, quotation from, 75 Echoicus, the, 283 Fairies, 254 Fata Margana, 355 Ferdousee's satire on Mahmoud, 80 Fire, in what manner produced among savage nations, 95 Flowers thrown into fountains, rivers, Fohi, surnamed the Flower-loving, 351 Forbes, 179. His description of a Ford, an extract from, 200 Forests, 59. Of South America, 56 Fountains held sacred, 37. Medicinal. Fracastorius, fountain of, 37. His Francis, St., on Mount Avernus, 124 Gaeta, promontory of, 115 Ganges held sacred, 6. Affection of Geneva, lake of, 54 Genius, argument relative to ancient Gentoos, esteem the Ganges holy, 6. Geography, Romans ignorant of Asi- Geometry defines man, 162 Germanicus visits the fountain of Germans, their hospitality, 175 Gibbon, his residence at Geneva, 55 Giggleswick, springs rise and fall with Glen, Prince Regent's, 58 Gold mine discovered in a remarkable Goths, law in respect to hospitality, Hapsburg, house of, 19 Hastings, Warren, causes Nuncomar Hawkesbury river, rapidity of its in- Heat, one of the causes of motion, 368 Height and depth, 183 Heliogabalus, his use of perfumes, 304 Hercules and Admetus, 169. Her- Hercynian, the leaves of, held sacred, 65 Hernandez, quotation from, 261 Herodotus, travels of, 187 Himala Mountains, 120. 157 Hindoo and Persian, anecdote of, 89 Their inhospitality, 179 Hipparchus, 108 Hippolito, Cardinal, 189 Hoangho river, colour of, 11 Holy Mountain, 114 Horeb, Mount, 118-120 |