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Justinian, right of fishing, 32. Code
of, 371

Justinian II., his cruelty, 240

Kalmuc priests, 164

Kemble, Stephen, letter to, 284
Kilda, St. 303
Kircher, 263
Klopstock, 56

Kondokoo, mountains of, 293
Kosciusko, 177

Kous, desert of-Hospitality of the
natives, 169

Kraskovitz, his ascension, 338

Labillardiere, 349. 362

Labyrinth, first conception of a, 19
Ladovat, Abbé, 89

Lakes of Cumberland, 52, Scotland,
52. Switzerland, 52, 53
Lambinus, 368

Landscape, perfect, 217
Language of birds, 259
Languages, 221

Laplanders people the woods with
evil spirits, 66. Ignorant of the
sword, 176

Laurentius of Haarlem, 89
Law of nature, 371

Leaf, Fall of the, 287
Lear, 216

Legislation, slow progress of, 370
Legislators, 203

Leo, laws relative to fishing, 32
Leonardo da Vinci, 341
Leonidas, an epitaph of, 315
Leucothoe, fable of, 63

Leuctra, 194

Libanus, Mount, 118
Lightning, 294
Lille, De, 14

Livy, passages from, 283
Llyn-y-Glas, lake of, 182
Logan, ballads of, 14

Logic defines man, 162

Loire, beauty of, 16. Called the River
of Love, 86

Lomier on lustrations, 29
Longinus, 133

Loo-choos, their hospitality, 180.
Patriarchal manners of, 181. Their
burial-places, 320

Lorette, establishment at, 302

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Mexicans, ceremonies among the, 29
Michael, St. 344

Military influence of mountains, 126
Milk, art of curdling, 198
Milton, quotation from, 265
Mines, 50
Minions, 208

Minstrel, passage from, 339
Mirages, 357

Mir Meis, anecdote of, 180
Mississippi. 17.

Savages of, 309

Missouri river, colour of, 11

Missouri Indians, a tradition among
them, 77

Mnesimachus sacrifices his hair, 7
Mock-bird, the American, 271
Moelshiabod, 110

Moguls, their emigration, 143. Their
salutation, 185

Mohawks, their hospitality, 177
Moldavians, their hospitality, 185
Mollien's opinion relative to the Ni-
ger, 22

Molusca, the, 361

Montesquieu, 20. Illustrations from,
79, 80

Moon, mountains of, 128. Hymn to
the-Criticism on, 288

Monsoons, 294, 365

Montfaucon, 49

Mordivines of Russia, 62

More, his picture of the sun rising,

308

Morocco without woods, 66. Burial-
places of, 309
Moorcroft, 158

Moors, their opinion relative to the
Niger, 3

Moreau, his monument, 329
Moses strikes the rock in Horeb, 15.
117. 120

Moss, used for bread in Norway,

70

Motion, vegetable, 364. Aerial, 365.
Mechanical, 365. Animal, 366.
Comparative, 366. Astronomical,

368
Mountains, 113. 145. 148
Mourning, colours of, 330

Mulgrave, Port, custom at, 818

Musæus, simile of, 75

Muscle, motion of, 366

Musselmen at Chendayeb, 96

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Rimmon, worship of, 62
Rithogar, death of, 35
Rivers, 1. Properties attributed to,
4. Of Italy, 13. Of India, 13.
Of Britain, 15. Of Europe, &c.
16. Of Scotland, 16. America,
17. African and American rivers
compared, 26.

Rocks, 106. Remarkable ones, 107.
Primitive, 149

Roentgen, his joy at beholding Mount
Atlas, 144

Rome in the time of Numa, 60
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 374
Rose, the, 304

Rosilly, bay of, 252

Rospigliosi, his picture of Aurora,

341

Ross, Capt. relative to the Aurora
Borealis, 355

Rousseau, 146, 258

Rubens, 348

Sabrina, 44

Sachsius, a comparison of, 238
Sadi, a fable of, 173. A saying of

his, 187. His tomb, 315

Salt, hill of, 43

Salvator Rosa, a picture of, 162
Samaritans, the, 118

Sandwich Island, hospitality in, 183
Sandys, quotation from, 253
Sarsaparilla, roots of, render water
delicious, 6

Saturnia, island of, 62

Saul under a pomegranate, 65
Saussure, anecdote of, 362

Savalan, the, held sacred by the Per-

sians, 115

Saxo Grammaticus, 175
Scenery, Swiss, 109

Scythians, their speech to Alexander,
78. Manners of, 72
Seaman, profession of a, 236
Segrobrigian ladies, customs among
the, 29

Seneca, his idea relative to rivers, 3
Seth, 163. His descendants, 164
Settlers on the Copper Berg River, 87
Seward, Miss, 323

Shakspeare, quotation from, 267.

297

Shea, uses of, 70

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