Chiron, inventor of the sphere, 48 Christina, queen of Sweden, anecdote Churchill, General, 78 Claude de Lorrain, landscape of, 9. Claudian, passage from, 42 Colonna, saying of his, 70. Anec- Congo, voyage up the, 23 Continents of Europe and Asia, 22 ness, 398 Cook, Captain, 190 Dante, anecdote of, 233 Darwin's Loves of the Plants," 45. Davies, his Celtic researches, 66 De Conde, prince of, 8 Deities of the ancient Romans, 122 Dervises of the East hold the flute Descartes, serenity of, 6 Poets, Difference between love and admira- Diodorus, passage from, 42, 274 Discovery of the sexual qualities of Distance increases admiration and Doric, order of, 4 Eagles, once frequent inhabitants of Eden, the site of, 39 Edible swallows, 132 Eels, electric, 198 Elba, island of, its effect on the Elysian fields, the, 33 animals, 177. Of animals, 178- Empress Catherine, the, 378 Eneid, passage from, 61 Eolian harps, 69 Epicurus, disciples of, 8 Erasmus, eulogium of, 43 Essenes, the, their opinion of a future Estates, the three, 371 Eve, in the enjoyment of nature, 27 Evelyn, William, 78 Exhibitions, 284, 285 Fabulous and extinct animals, 211 Flechier, passage from, 101 Four first stages of society, 80. ders of landscapes, the, 224 Galen, 19 Or- Galgacus, his speech to the Cale- Galileo, doctrine of, 9 Gallipagos, the island of, 211 Gardens of Fronto, 7. Of Persia, 56 Gardening taught the Britons by the Garofalo, his picture, 29 Gaspar Poussin, his paintings, 357 293 1 General, the secrets of a, 399 Georgius, his opinion of the situation Gessner, his idyls, 20, 294 Giovani e Paolo, 29. Della Vite, Girardin de, 14 Giulio Cesare Procacino, his picture, 29 Glens of Mexico, the, 23 Golden fruit, stolen by Hercules, 39 Goree, the negroes of, 229 Goyen of Leyden, his paintings, 358 Hamilton, Sir William, 6 Hans Egede, 230 Hassan, Mirza Abul, anecdote of, 229 Helvetius, Mad., anecdote of, 89 Hesiod, his descriptions, 318 Hesperian gardens, the, 38 Hindoo poetry, 72 Hippocrates, 19 Hoel Dha, 113 Holland, New, the seals of, becoming Homer, saying of his, 298 Menechmus taught conic sections, 48 Milton, his poetry, 29. His com- Minds, various orders of, 1 Monmouth, county of, 16 Moschus, paraphrase of, 67 Murant, of Amsterdam, a disciple of Nadir Shah, anecdote of, 389 Natural enjoyments, 271. Analogies, Naturalization of plants, 162 Negroes of Gold Coast, the, their Newton, science of, 4 Nightingale-flower, 23 Nineveh, 204 Noah, a husbandman, 87 North America, mountains of, 194 Numa, anecdote of, 99 |