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ACTORS mistakes in the bent of their ta. Catherine of Russia, gallantries of, 164

lents, 240

Air, and the Air-pump, 200
Algiers, the French at, 251
American Navy, the 69

Ancient Prodigies and Magic, 1
Antiquity, scraps of, 111

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Carnival, the Ashantee Yam, 119
Chaplain, a military one, 191
Chair, an accoustic, 358
Children, crusade of, 339

China, christianity in, 211

a few words on, 136

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Beings, distinction between inanimate and Consumption, 44

living, 132

Billington, Mrs., 17

Bewick and wood-engraving, 193

Black Dr., anecdotes of, 43

Blood, the body poisoned by its own, 287

Bloomfield the poet, 211

Books, form of ancient, 210

210

Essence of, 210

Pulmonary, 393

Conscription, drawing for the, 409

Comet, Halley's or the comet for 1834, 337
Combustion, spontaneous, 288

Courts of love, 121

Cowper and Gibbon,287

Combing the hair in company, 192

Costume, unchangeable, 240

to preserve from being worm eaten Continent, at the South Pole, on the exis-

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tence of a, 241

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Demon of Drury Lane, or the modern Hindoo Idolatry, the East India Com.

Tantalus, 113

Defence, an Irish one, 96

Dinner a Saxon, 164

Doctors dispensed with, 68

Drinking, the parson cured of, 209
Drama, cause of the decline of the,,89
Dress, the present fashion in, 31

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Garrick, 138

pany's encouragement of, 150
Home, country, all the world, 82
House of Commons, speakers in the, 116
Houses, movable, 196

Hospitality, Kamschatka, 239

Hydrophobia, a new view of the causes of,

109

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Leigh Green, the, 392
Lawrence, Surgeon, 58
Leeches, 339

Legatee, the Residuary, 87

Letter, a French gentleman's to an En-
glish friend in London, 62

Light-houses, on the illumination of, 413

Logarithms, Napier the inventor of, 242
Levels in London above the high water
mark, 367

Lord Mayor's show, my first, 32

Gas, unwholesomeness of it in the interior Louis the fourteenth, characteristic anec-

of houses. 288

Gallantry, Polish, 339

Geography, Chinese, 165

Genlis the countess, sketch of, 357

Gondomar count, his opinion of Queen
Elizabeth and the reformers, 255
Goldsmith; thoughtlesness of, 170

Great Britain, future prospects of, 108
Grapes, grafting, 96

Grotius's wife, ingenuity of, 176
Greece, topics connected with, 197
Grey Earl, sketch of, 306

H.

Hazlett, recollections of, 106
Heat,339

dotes of, 413

M.

Machinery, theory of, 335

Mackenzie, the late, Henry, 329

Mc. Donald, the Ettrick shepherd's song
of, 259

Man about town, a, 140
Masulipatum, 139

Marriage in Scotland, law of, 68

Mecca, running pilgrims at, 191
Menai bridge, 410

Midshipmen, Lord Rodney's kindness to
his, 69

Milk, substitute for, 339

Milton, and Sir H. Davy, 390

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Navies in general, 69

Negus, origin of, 392

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— Juliet, a thought at night, 399
Too soon, 210

Truth, youth, and age, 227
Weep not for her, 351

Presents, new years', 239

New South Wales, mineral productions Presentiments, fatal, 407

of, 205

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Priests, Greek, 240

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Sabbath, observance of the, 227
Sales, Dutch, 420

Saints, Chinese, 165
Satan, the spouse of, 10

Scientific men, ingratitude of England to
her, 91

Scott, Sir Walter, 293

Scotland, parliamentary representation of,

97

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Sea, a trip to the, 63

Shepherd's, the Ettrick, and Professor
Wilson's poetical tilts, 255
Signs, a chapter on, 165
Singular custom, 139

Sinclair's, Sir John, "correspondence,”an-
ecdotes from, 300

Skeletons of fish, method of obtaing the, 68
Smithson, anecdote of, 139

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Weber, Carl Maria von, 351

Whale fishery of New south Wales, 382
Who was Jesse,? 392

Wilson, Professor, 250

Wilson's, Professor, and the Ettrick shep-
herd's poetical tilts, 255

Wind and water, powers of, 315

Wood-engraving, 139

Teas, prices and qualities of English and Worsted, 392

foreign, 386

Tetuan, a glance at, 249

Titian, 138

Tit for tat, 254

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Years, the present computation of, erio
neous, 17

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