Ice, Greenland or polar, 525 Ice, tremendous concussions of fields of, 528 Ice, showers of, 533 Ignis Fatuus, 644 Improvement of the learned, 765 Incubus, or nightmare, 941 Indian jugglers, 897 Individuation, 780 Indulgences, Romish, 636 Ingratitude, shocking instances of, 78 Inks, various sympathetic, 853 to 857 Insects, metamorphoses of: the butterfly, the common fly, the grey-coated gnat, the shardhorn beetle, 345 Insects blown from the nose, - Integrity, striking instances of, 77 Inverlochy castle, 574 Island, new, starting from the sea, 491 J Jew's harp, 795 John Bull, origin of the term of, 634 K Killarney, the lake of, 487 Kimos, singular nation of dwarfs, 43 Knout, 804 Kraken, 210

Labrador stone, 402 Lady of the Lamb, 601 Lama, 810 Lambert, Daniel, account of, 887 Lamps, remarkable, 805 Lamp, phosphoric, 844 Lanterns, feast of, 621 Laocoon, monument of, 556 Leaves, to take an impression of them, 866 Letter, curious, from Pomare, king of Otaheite, to the Missionary Society, 773 Libraries, celebrated, 760 Light produced under water, 850 Lightning, extraordinary properties and effects of, 651 Lightning, to produce artificial, 844 Liquids, to produce changeable-coloured, 858 Liquids, to exchange two in different bottles, 872 Literary labour and perseverance, 756 Lizard, imbedded in coal, 225 Locusts, and their uses in the creation, 349 London, compendious description of, 813 London, intellectual improvement in, 761 Longevity, extraordinary instances of, 96 Louse, 328 Love-letter, and answer, curious, 774 Luminous insects, 319 M M'Avoy, Miss Margaret, 919 Maelstrom, 489 Magdalen's hermitage, 575 Magic oracle, 845 Magical bottle, 851 Magical drum, 806 Magnetism, 693 Magnetic experiments, 848 Magnify, to, small objects, 882 Mahometan paradise, 811 Maiden, 599 Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant, found in Siberia, 170 Man with the iron mask, 727 Mandrake, 387 Marmot, or the Mountain Rat of Switzerland, 167 Marriage custom of the Japanese, 604 Marriage ceremonies, curious, in different nations, 602 Masons, free and accepted, 737 Mathematical talent, curious instance of, 93 Matrimonial ring, 608 Matter, divisibility of, 793 May-fly, 340 May poles and garlands, the origin of, 629 Memnon, palace of, 552 Memory, remarkable instance of, 86 Metals, different, to discover, 828 Metals, mixed, to detect, 871 Metcalf, John, alias Blind Jack of Knaresborough, 900 Microscopic experiments, 859 Migration of birds, 253 Mills, remarkable, 799 Mint of Segovia, 799 Miraculous vessel, 852 Mirage, account of, 521 Miners, curious effects of, 833 Mite, the cheese, curiosities respecting, 358 Mock suns, 673 Mocking bird of America, 233 Mole, the common, 159 Money, test of good or bad, 834 Monkey, sagacity of a, 192 Monsoons, or trade winds, 512 Monster, 777 Montague, Edward Wortley, 110 Mont Blanc, in Switzerland, 427 Moon, account of three volcanoes in the, 682 Morland, George, account of, 114 Moscow, great bell of, 726 Mosquitoes, and their uses, 355 Mourning, ancient modes of, 613 Mountains, natural descriptions of, 406 Mountains Written, Mountains of Inscription, or Jibbel El Mokatteb, 422 Mount Snowden, excursion to the top of, 412 Mud and Salt, volcanic eruptions of, in the island of Java, 467 Murdering statue, 801 Museum, 566 Mushroom, 395 Mushroom-stone, 402 N Names, curious, adopted in the civil war, 772 Naphtha springs, 492 National debt, singular calculation respecting, 816 Natural productions, resembling artificial compositions, 804 Natural history, curious facts in, 247 Nautilus, 197 Navigation, perfection of, 481 Needles, 722 Needle's eye, 459 News, origin of the word, 762 Newspapers, origin of, 762 New studies in old age, instances of, 763 New year's gifts, origin of, 633 Niagara, and its falls, 485 Nicholas Pesce, 117 Nitre caves of Missouri, 457 Nokes, Edward, a miser, 888 Numbers, remarkable instance of skill in, 86 Numbers, curious arrangements of, 868, 871 Nuns, particulars respecting, 811 Nuovo, Monte, 419 O Oak-tree, remarkable account of, 380 Oakham, custom at, 630 Obelisk, remarkable, near Forres, in Scotland, 573 Okey Hole, 458 Orang-Outang, 178 Origin of 'That's a Bull,' 635 Origin of the old adage respecting St. Swithin, and rainy weather, 635 Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, 166 Ostrich, curiosities of the, 231 Owl, adventure of an, 247 P Pausilippo, 419 Peacock, the common, 226 Peak in Derbyshire, description of, 409 Peeping Tom of Coventry, 740 Peg, to make a, to fit three differently shaped holes, 872 Pelican, the great, 229 Penance, curious account of a, 643 Performances of a female, blind almost from her infancy, 53 Persons born defective in their limbs, wonderful instances of adroitness of, 54 Peruke, 783 Peru, mines of, 465 Pesce, Nicholas, extraordinary character of, 117 Pharos of Alexandria, 549 Phosphoric fire, sheet of, 669 Phosphorus, 670 Pichinca, 415 Pico, 422 Pigeon, wild, its multiplying power, 245 Pigeon, carrier, or courier, 244 Pin-making, 721 Pitch-wells, 468 Plague, dreadful instances of the, in Europe, 747 Plant, curious, 386 Plants, curious dissemination of, 366 Plants upon the earth, prodigious number of, 367 Plough-Monday, origin of, 632 Poison-eater, remarkable account of, 94 Pompey's pillar, 547 Pope Joan, 931 Portland vase, 800 Praxiteles' Venus, 712 Praying machines of Kalmuck, 642 Price, Charles, the renowned swindler, 889 Prince Rupert's drops, 853 Prolificness, extraordinary instances of, 37 Psalmanazar, George, noted impostor, 112 Pulpit, curious, 801 Pyramids of Egypt, 544 Q Quaint lines, 772 Queen Charlotte, curious address to, 769 Queen, a blacksmith's wife become a, 749 Queen Elizabeth's dinner, curious account of the ceremonies at, 749 Queen Elizabeth, quaint lines on, 772 R Recreations, amusing, in optics, &c. 873 to 882 Recreations, amusing, with numbers, 820 to 827 Religion, celebrated speech on, 944 Reproduction, 781 Repulsion, examples of, 837 Respiration, interesting facts concerning, 26 Revivified rose, 858 Rhinoceros, 162 Rings, on the origin of, 606 Rosin bubbles, 851 Royal progenitors, 744 Ruin at Siwa in Egypt, 534 S Salutation, various modes of, 598 Sand-floods, account of, 521 Savage, Richard, extraordinary character of, 128 Scaliot's lock, 712 Scarron, Paul, account of, 119 Schurrman, Anna Maria, 123 Scorpion, 213 Sea, curiosities of the, 471 Sea, on the saltness of, 476 Sea, to measure the depth of the, 829 Sea serpent, American, 218 Seal, common account of, 180 Seal, ursine, 181 Seeds, germination of, 365 Sensibility of plants, 368 Sensitive plant, 369 Seraglio, 564 Serpents, fascinating power of, 219 Sexes, difference between the, 34 Sexes at birth, comparative number of the, 36 Shark, 198 Sheep, extraordinary adventures of one, 190 Shelton oak, description of, 382 Ship worm, 224 Ship at sea, to find the burden of a, 829 Shoes, curiosities respecting, 724 Shoe-makers, literary, 764 Shower of gossamers, curious phenomenon of a, 523 Shrovetide, 630 Silk-mill at Derby, 800 Silk stockings, electricity of, 842 Silkworm, 220 Singular curiosity, 405 Skiddaw, 414 Sleep-walker, 69 Sleeping woman of Dunninald, 70 Smeaton, John, 113 Sneezing, curious observations on, 33 Snow grotto, 451 Solfatara, the lake of, 488 Sound, experiments on, 840 Spectacle of a sea-fight at Rome, 711 Spectacles, a substitute for, 807 Spectre of the Broken, 420 Spider, curiosities of the, 314 Spider, tamed, 316 Spider, ingenuity of a, 316 Spider, curious anecdote of a, 318 Spirits of wine, to ascertain the strength of, 839 Spontaneous inflammations, 786 Sports, book of, 766 'Squire, old English, 925 Stalk, animated, 392 Star, falling or shooting, 401 Stephenson, the eccentric, 895 Steel, to melt, 830 Stick, to break a, on two wine-glasses, 871 Stone, the meteoric, 401 Stone, the Labrador, 402 Stone, the changeable, 404 Stone-eater, remarkable account of, 94 Stonehenge, 592 Storks, 229 Storm, singular effects of a, 519 Strasburg clock, 705 Sugar, antiquity of, 390 Sulphur mountains, 424 Sun, diminution of the, 673 Sun, spots in the, 671-to shew ditto, 852 Surgical operation, extraordinary, 791 Swine's concert, 750 Sword-swallowing, 62 Sympathetic inks, 853 to 857 T Tallow-tree, 378 Tantalus' cup, 852 Tape-worm, 222 Tea, Chinese method of preparing, 388 Telegraph, 708 Temple of Tentira, in Egypt, 550 Tenures, curious, 628 Thermometrical experiments, 863 Thermometer, moral and physical, 817 Thread burnt, not broken, 844 Thunder powder, 836 Thunder rod, 654 Tides, 479 Titles of books, 755 Toad, common, description of, 161 Topham, Thomas, character of, 115 Tornado, description of a, 510 Torpedo, 200 Tortoise, the common, 176 Tree of Diana, 852 Trees, account of a country, in which the inhabitants reside in, 45 U Unbeliever's creed, 776 Unfortunate artificer, 745 Unicorn, 179 Upas, or poison tree, 383

Valentine's-day, origin of, 632 Van Butchell, Mrs. preservation of her corpse, 902 Vegetable kingdom, curiosities in the, 363 Vegetables, number of known, 367 Vegetable fly, 341 Velocity of the wind, 517 Ventriloquism, 58 Vesuvius, 434, 947 Vicar of Bray, 748 Voltaic pile, to make a cheap, 847 Vulture, Egyptian, 228 Vulture, secretary, 228 W Wasp, curiosities respecting the, 285 Watch, the mysterious, 835 Watches, invention of, 707 Water, to boil without heat, 835 Water, to weigh, 834 Water, to retain, in an inverted glass, 835 Waterspout, 663 Waves stilled by oil, 480 Weaving engine, 712 Whale, great northern, or Greenland, 204 Whale fishery, 208 Whig and Tory, explanation of the terms, 776 Whirlpool near Sudero, 489 Whirlwinds of Egypt, 509 Whispering places, and extraordinary echoes, 802 Whitehead's ship, 712 Whittington, Sir Richard, 932 Wild man, account of a, 76 Wind, velocity of, 517 Winds, remarkable, in Egypt, 507 Wine cellar, curious, 799 Winter in Russia, 524 Wolby, Henry, extraordinary character of, 105 Women with beards, curious account of, 32 Wooden eagle, and iron fly, 711 Writing, origin of the materials of, 751 Writing, minute, 753