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id.-general opinion of himself and his book, 31-verbal delinquen-
cies, 32.

Palestine, Airs of, Pierpont's, character of, 248,

Park, Dr. on the varieties of sensation, 177.

Parthenon, description of the figures in, 34-composed of Pintelican
marble, 35.

Penn, John, biography of, 257.

Pennsylvania, schools and college in, 287–297.

Pierpont's Airs of Palestine, 245---character of his poetry, 248.

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, doubts of its being Lord Byron's, 397---
opinion of, 398---extracts from, 399.

Plants, larger and more luxuriant at the equator than at the poles, 183---
at the base than at the top of mountains, 185---how affected by light,
heat, and moisture, 184.

Poetic Mirror, opinion of and extracts from, 430.

Poets, the metaphysical, 245---the semi-metaphysical, id. et 252.
Poetry, semi-metaphysical, exemplifications of, 248-51.

Political economy, conversations on, 60.

Pox, Cow, the properties of discovered, and described by Dr. Jenner,

49-52.

Pydna, tumulus in memory of the battle of, 45.

Quadrant, the reflecting, Godfrey and Hadley's claims to the invention of,
discussed, 281.

Quantity, Day's definition of, objectionable, 449---impossible quantities
should be systematically treated of, 456---demonstration of the principle,
that when real and impossible quantities occur in the same equation,
those which are real and those which are impossible, on opposite sides
of the equation, are respectively equal, 457.
Raffles', T. S.'s account of Java and Japan, 206.

Rede, L. S. biography of, 258.

Reid, Dr.'s, mistake about the nature of Hume's philosophy, 6---one of his
arguments against it proves too much, id. note---use of the word instinc-
tive in certain cases, censured, 18---excused, id. See Turgot.
Review of Continental journals of science, 199.

Rhode Island, colleges in, 293.

Riley, captain's, narrative of his wreck on.the coast of Africa, and suffer-
ings among the Arabs, authentic, 314---description of the Zahahrah,
322---of Arabic life, 223---schools, 225---journey across the desert, ar-
rival at Mogadore, and return to America, 306-331.

Robespierre, character of, 219---conduct on the famous 9 Thermidor, 220
---detention and death of, 222.

Romeyn, sermons of, reviewed, 445.

Royal Society of London, proceedings of, 207---of Edinburgh, proceedings
of, id.

Sandwich Islands, Campbell's description of, 188---promising state of, 189.
Saving Banks, tracts on, 76---origin of, 77---and history, id.---abuses of,
78---intention of, id.---their great merit, simplicity, 79---Edinburgh
bank, the best, id.---progress of, 81---benefits of, twofold, 83.
Sciences, classification of. See Woodward.

different aspect of, as presented by the English and Continental
writers, 455, note.

Scott, Dr., on the arts of India, 187---nitromuriatic acid, his substitute for
mercury in various diseases, id.---his acconnt of the Indian instruments
for the removal of the crystalline lens, id.---suggests that the late intro-
duction of Arabic digits into Europe proves that Greece could not have
been so well acquainted with Arabia as is commonly imagined, 188.

Scotch Vocal Poetry, 167---collected in a volume by Mr. Campbell, id.---
its identity with that of the Irish, Welsh, and Scandinavian, 168---labour
of collecting, 168---examples of, 169-72.

Scott, Walter, poetry of parodied, 431.

Sensation, Dr. Park on the varieties of, 177.

Sermons, American, number of, 482---characteristics of our principal
preachers, 482-484.

Sidi Hamet's journeyings in Africa, 334---veracity of, examined, 333---
description of Tombuctoo, 339---of Wassanah, 342.

Southey, Robert, biography of, 258.

Steam-Boats, how to prevent the boilers on board of, from bursting, 475
when invented, 382.

Summer of 1816, an essay to account for the coldness of, 400.

Sunda islands and Japan, T. S. Raffle's account of, 206---antiquity of the
former, id.---how the people of the latter differ from the Chinese, id.
Tanagra, scite of, ascertained, 39.

Taylor, Jeremy's story about persecution, found, as he says, in the Jews'
books, 392.

Tea of Bogota, account of, 191-originally discovered by Dr. Mutis, id.
Tempe, Valley of, 44.

Tennessee, schools and colleges in, 289-300.

Thebes, description of, 39---antiquities of, 40.

Tempest, a fragment, opinion of, 399.

Therma, tumulus in, memorable of the battle of Pydna, 45.

Thessalonica, account of, 46.

Tides, Bennett's new theory of, 231---why higher in narrow than in broad
seas, 236.

Tiryns, cyclopean structure of the walls of, 36.

Tombuctoo, description of, 339.

Trophonius, adytum of, 41.

Turgot, his doctrine concerning the principle of our reasoning from past
to future, 17---adopted by Reid, and enforced by Stewart, id.---approv-
ed, id.

United States, how the varieties of climate and soil of affect the human
constitution, 113-115---national vice, intemperance, 116---diseases in
the various parts of, and the mode of treating, 116-24.

state of education in, 285---free-schools in, 290---female
education in, id.
Vaccine Inoculation, discovery of, 49---superiority of, to the variolus, 52
---far less mortal, 53---less infectious, 55---less loathsome, id. --rapidity
of the propagation of, 54---makes its way slowly in England, id ---cau-
tion to be used in, id. note---testimonies in favour of, 56.

Vaccinna, Dr. Jenner's Temple of, described, 57-8.

Variolous Inoculation, its mortality, 53---infectious nature and loathsome-
ness, 55.

Vases, terra cotta, at Argos, 36---intention of, id.

Vastey, baron de's, reflections on a letter of Mazeres, opinion of, and ex-
tracts from, 410,

Vergniaux, character of, as a speaker, 219.

Vermont, colleges in, 295,

Vesuvius, eruption of in 1813, 177---appearance afterwards, 179.

Virginia, letters from, 238---first settlement of, id.---land of, how taken
up, 241---manners of the people in, 242---warm spring, 418---hot spring,
420---sulphur spring, 424.

schools and colleges in, 289-299.

Wadsworth, characteristics of his school of poetry, 432-8---poetry of, cari-

cătured, 432-7.

Walker, Adam, biography of, 259.

Wasanah, description of, 342.

Waterhouse, Dr., the Jenner of America, 54.

Walker's South American, character of, 504.

Watt, James, F. R. S., biography of, 260.

Weems, Mason L., an author, pedlar, and preacher, 389---garbled edi-
tion of Dr. Franklin's Essays and Life, id.

Wine, Von Soemmering's new mode of improving, 198.

Woodward's Classification of the Sciences, 89---peculiarities as an author,
90-1---indiscriminate notice of every person and thing relating to his
work, 92---singularities of punctuation, 93---object twofold; first, to
give an account of former classifications, and, secondly, a development
of his own, id.---method of classifying the sciences expounded and ob-
jected to, in some particulars, 94-8---suggested improvements of his
classification, 99-103---his Table, 104---his Table improved, 105---key
to the improved Table, 106---his undertaking equally philosophical with
that of Linnæus, 107---but not so arduous, 109---difficulties arising
from the indefiniteness of mental philosophy, 108---not urgently called
for, 110---or likely to be generally adopted, 111---general opinion of the
book and its author, id.

Works, number of, published on the European continent between July
and September 1816, 208.

Wolcot, John, M. D., biography of, 260.

Wright, Mrs., furnishes Dr. Franklin with secret information, 386, note.
Zahahrah, the African, described, 322---erroneous opinions concerning,
id.---similarity to the sand-hills of Carolina and Georgia, 347.

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