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After a long cold winter, we joyfully welcome the approach of summer; but, when scorched a few months with its heat, and ready to faint, the return of winter is not so unpleasant to us as it appeared more early in the spring. But whatever effect these successions may have upon us, it is certain they are very beneficial. The light of the day is advantageous for managing the toils and business of life; and the coolness and stilness of the night are as suitable for rest and sleep. The summer's heat is necessary for ripening the fruits of the earth, and hastening the harvest: but the winter's cold and hoary frost are subservient to prepare the earth for the seed, and render it fertile. This dreary season is serviceable both to man and beast;-it gives a new spring and vigour to Nature.

Glorious Author of the year,

Teach us at thy shrine to bow!
As thy varying months appear,
Let our lips renew the vow!

When the dove-eyed SPRING looks out
From her infant nest of flowers,
On the green fresh woods about
Sparkling in the sunny showers-
When, as up the blue profound

SUMMER climbs her noonday height,
Not the breathing of a sound

Wanders through the depth of light—

When o'er harvest-waving hill,

And on gaily-blossomed heath,
AUTUMN glows-or, beauteous still,
Wears the golden veil of death-

When, like some unspotted corse
Shrouded in its virgin white,
Nature yields to WINTER's force,
Only to revive more bright—

Glorious Author of the year,
Teach us at thy shrine to bow!
As thy varying months appear,
Let our lips renew the vow!

Dd

REV. F. HODGSON.

All the succession of Time, all the changes in Nature, all the varieties of light and darkness, the thousand thousands of accidents in the world, and every contingency to every man, and to every creature, doth preach our funeral sermon, and calls us to see how the OLD SEXTON TIME throws up the earth, and digs a grave, where we must lay our sins or our sorrows, and sow our bodies till they rise again in a fair or in an intolerable eternity. Every revolution which the sun makes about the world, divides between life and death; and death possesses both those portions by the next morrow; and we are dead to all those months which we have already lived, and we shall never live them over again.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

TO

Time's Telescope

FOR

1820.

For the various SAINTS, see the word. The Roman Numerals
refer to the INTRODUCTION.

Abbott, Abp. 99

A

B

Baker, William, 132

Accession of king George III, 248- Barrow, Dr. Is. 130

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All Fools' Day, 95

Saints Day, 271
Souls, 272

America, birds of, described, 64, 90
114

Anhalt, Prince of, 244
•Annunciation of B. V. M. 75
Ants, limes on, 121, 122

their mode of building, xlv
reflections on a mole-hill, xlvi
April explained, 94
Aptera, I

Ascension Day, 131
Ascham, Roger, 8
Ash-Wednesday, 50
Assumption, 194

ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES in
January 1820, 25; February,
54; March, 78; April, 102;
May, 139; June, 159; July,
178; August, 196; September,
223; October, 251; November,
281; December, 305
Astronomy, Practical, 29
August, explained, 193-poetically
described, 203

Autumn, lines on, 259, 260, 287,
290

Becket, Thomas à, 176

Bede, Venerable, 134

Bees, lines on, 147, 191, xli, xliv,
xlv

Beetle, lines on, xxxii

Birds that sing in the night, 112—
of song, lines on, 114

song

birds found in warm climates,
117, 118

Blackwall, Rev. A. 99
Brooke, Mrs. 23
Browne, I. H. 137
Bunyan, John, 196
Burkitt, Rev. W. 248
Butler, Dr. J. 155

Butterfly, lines to, 146, 206, xiii
note, xiv note-locality of cer-
tain species of, 205,206-Chi-
nese butterflies, 206---scales on,
Xxxvii
Byron, Lord, born, 21-married, 7
born

Calmet, Augustin, 249
Camel-cricket, xxxv
Campbell, Dr. G. 99
Caprification, xvi
Carling Sunday, 75
Chaffer, common, xxxiii
Chermes, xyi, xxxvi
Christmas, lines on, 310
Christmas Day, 302
Church-ale, 129, note

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Coronation of King George III, 222 Flechier, M. 51

Corpus Christi, 149

Crabs, peculiarity in, liii

Cranberries, 188, 189

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Entomology, defined, ix---on the Harvest, lines on, 203

English manners, 239

study of, x, xi

Ephemera, 169, note

Ephemeron-fly, XXXİV

Epiphany, 8

Epochs, 58

Erskine, Lord, 86, 88

Evelyn, John, born, 250-died,

52

Everlasting flowers, 313

-- rose, a poem, 315
F

Fabricius, J. A. 98
Faded bouquet, 209

Harvest-moon, 226

Hastings, battle of, 240
Hawk-moth, xxxviii
Hay-making, lines on, 187
Hemiptera, xxxiv
Herbert, George, 98
High-water, time of, 162
Hildesley, Dr. Mark, 297
Holstein nightingales, 63
Holy Cross, 221

Thursday, 131

Horse-fly, I
Hunter, Dr. H. 250

Hydrophilus piceus, structure of, Iv | Lammas Day, 198

Hymenoptera, xli

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I

Icebergs, lines on, 42
Infant, lines on, 304
Innocents Day, 303
INSECTS, beautiful forms and co-
lours of, xi-xiv---dyes obtained
from, xvi---medical uses of, ib.
---injuries occasioned by, xvii-
xix---plague of, in America, xx
---damage done by to all farina-
ceous food, xx, xxi---to wooden
furniture, xxi---remedy against
this, ib. xxii---injury to woollen
furniture, xxii---cause of disease
in summer, ib.---plague of, in
Lapland and India, ib. xxiii---
their instinctive powers and sen-
sations, xxiv---external organs,
xxvii---classification, xxx--- on
cruelty to insects, xxxiii---their
curious mode of building, xliii,
xlv---egg state and transforma-
tion, liv---great fecundity of, Ivi
note---wonderful economy of, lx
---habitations and food, lxi---
uses of insects, lxv---general re-
flections, lxvi---select books on
insects, Ixvii---poetical illustra-
tions of, xiv, xv, xxiii, xxiv,
XXVII, XXX, Xxxiv, xxxvii,
xxxix, xlviii, 1, lii, liii, Ivi, lvii,
lix, lxi, lxvii
INTRODUCTION, ix

Invention of the Cross, 129
Ireton, Henry, 72

J

January, explained, 1

Janus and Ganesa compared, 1-8

Jessamine, lines on, 174

Joyce, Rev. J. 158

July, explained, 175

Landscape Painters, address to, 17
Lantern-fly, xxxv

Leap Year, remarks on, 56
Lepidoptera, xxxvii
Lillo, George, 219

Lobsters, peculiarity in, liii---lines
on, ib.

Locust, species of, xvii---lines on,
xviii note

London burnt, 213description of
the fire by an eye-witness, ib.
plague in, 220

May described, 144, 145

Longest Day, 158,
Lord Mayor's Day, 274.
Low Sunday, 100

M
Manton, Dr. 245
Manuel, F. 101
March, explained, 68
Marlborough, Duke of, 155
Mary Magdalen, 177
Maunday Thursday, 76
May, explained, 124-poetical de
scription of, 144-of a London
May, ib. 145---May-day ceremo-
nies, 124-128
Microscope, lines on, xiii note
Midlent Sunday, 73
Midsummer Day, 158
Migration of birds, 90, 232-of
the swallow, 230
Mind, Gottfried, 24
Missel-thrush, lines to, 35
Mocking-thrush, described, 114-
116

Mole-hill, reflections on, xlvi
Moon's declination, 104
Mothering Sunday, 74
Mumming, 5

N

Name of Jesus, 194

Jupiter's satellites, eclipses of, 200, Nativity of B. V. M. 221

283

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NATURALIST'S DIARY for Jauuary
1820, 32-February,60- March,
84-April, 106-May, 144
June, 164-July, 184-August,
203-September, 230-October,
259-November, 287---Decem-
ber, 310

Nature, economy of, 88

Nepa, genus, a curious aquatic
insect belonging to, lv

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