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Temperance and Intemperance: Stone-eater

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, 5c9 Strasburg clock, 705 Sugar, antiquity of, 390 Sulphur mountains, 424 Sun, diminution of the, 673 Surgical operation, extraordinary, 791 wine's concert, 750 word-swallowing, 62 Sympathetic inks, 881 to 885 Tallow-tree, 378 Tapeworm, 222 T Tea, Chinese method of preparing, 388 Telegraph, 708 Telegraphy, new mode of, 839 Telephone, the, 841 Temple of Tentira, in Egypt, 550 Tenures, curious, 628 Thermometrical experiments, 891 Thermometer, moral and physical, 911 Thread burnt, not broken, 872 Thunder powder, 864 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, the paper, 378 Tree, the African calabash, 379 Tree of Diana, 880 INDEX.

Trees, account of a country in which the inhabitants reside in, 45 Tunnel, the great Sutro, 838 U Unbeliever's creed, 776 Unfortunate artificer, 745 Unicorn, 179 Upas, or poison tree, 383 V Valentine's day, origin of, 632 Vegetable kingdom, curiosities in the, 393 Vegetables, number of known, 367 Vegetable fly, 341 Velocity of the wind, 517 Ventriloquism, 58 Vesuvius, 434 Vicar of Bray, 748 Volcanoes in the moon, 682 Voltaic pile, to make a cheap, 875 Vulture, Egyptian, 228 Vulture, secretary, 228 W Wasp, curiosities respecting the, 285 Watch, the mysterious, 863 Watches, invention of, 101, 707 Water, to boil without heat, 863 Water, to weigh, 862 Water, to retain in an inverted glass, 863 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 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, τoς Women with beards, curious account of, 32 Wooden eagle and iron fly, 711 Writing, origin of the materials of, 75x Writing, minute, 753 X Xerxes' bridge of boats over the Hellespont.

Z Zeuxis, celebrated painter, 116