Chiron, inventor of the sphere, 48 Christina, queen of Sweden, anecdote Churchill, General, 78 Claude de Lorrain, landscape of, 9. Claudian, passage from, 42 Colonna, saying of his, 70. Anec- Congo, voyage up the, 23 Continents of Europe and Asia, 22 ness, 398 Cook, Captain, 190 Corinthian citizens, 69 Corycian swain, Virgil's, 123 Courtesy, flower of, 66 Crabbe, poetical passage from, 305 Crassus, 16 Creed, the Christian, 32 Cuckoo, the honey guide, 116 Cutilia, lake of, 59 Cuvier's fossil and organic remains, Cyprian, 11 Czar of Russia, the, 229 Dante, anecdote of, 233 Darwin's "Loves of the Plants," 45. Davies, his Celtic researches, 66 De Conde, prince of, 8 Deities of the ancient Romans, 122 Dervises of the East hold the flute Descartes, serenity of, 6 Poets, Difference between love and admira- Diodorus, passage from, 42, 274 Discovery of the sexual qualities of Distance increases admiration and Doric, order of, 4 Eagles, once frequent inhabitants of Eden, the site of, 30 Edible swallows, 132 Eels, electric, 198 Elba, island of, its effect on the Elysian fields, the, 33 animals, 168-170. Of plants and animals, 177. Of animals, 178— 189 Empress Catherine, the, 378 Eneid, passage from, 61 Eolian harps, 69 Epicurus, disciples of, 8 Erasmus, eulogium of, 43 Essenes, the, their opinion of a future Estates, the three, 371 Eve, in the enjoyment of nature, 27 Evelyn, William, 78 Exhibitions, 284, 285 Fabulous and extinct animals, 211 Flechier, passage from, 101 Four first stages of society, 80. Or- ders of landscapes, the, 224 Fraser, General, anecdote of, 242 Menechmus taught conic sections, 48 Milton, his poetry, 29. His com- Minds, various orders of, 1 Monmouth, county of, 16 Monument of Sophocles, 122 Moschus, paraphrase of, 67 Murant, of Amsterdam, a disciple of Nadir Shah, anecdote of, 389 Natural enjoyments, 271. Analogies, Naturalization of plants, 162 Negroes of Gold Coast, the, their Newton, science of, 4 Nightingale-flower, 23 Noah, a husbandman, 87 North America, mountains of, 194 Numa, anecdote of, 99 |