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Temperance and Intemperance: Burning-glasses

Bowthorpe oak, 382 Bread-fruit tree, 372 Bread, old, curious account of, 807 Bridge, great trestle, 837 Bridge, great suspension, 843 Brown, Simon, and his curious dedication te Queen Caroline, 108 Bunzlau curiosities, 714 Buonaparte, principal events in the life of, 136 Burning spring in Kentucky, 493 Burning and hot springs, 494,495,496, 497 Burning, extraordinary cures by, 792 Burning-glasses, 717 Bustard, the great, 243 Butterflies, beauty and diversities of, 344 Butterflies, to take an impression of their wings, 894 C Camera obscura, to make, 858 Candiac, John Lewis, account of, 113 Candlemas-day, 632 Cannon, extraordinary, 807 Cards, origin of, 767.

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