Aba of the Persians and Arabs,
What? 342. Abbey Lands, dispute of the monks and secular clergy about in Charles I.'s reign,
ABBOT, ABP. speaks malig. nantly of Laud, 130. Com- plained of by Falkland as neglecting Ireland, 178. Neglected young Ormonde when under his care, 204. Aberdeen, beautiful workman- ship of the high altar of, and noble conduct of the carpen- ter who would not lift up his hatchet to destroy it, 151. ABRAHAM LEVITABAR DAVID, story of, 658. ABRAHAM, place where, at the
command of Nimrod, he was thrown into the fiery fur- nace, 404. Absolution and Confession, the necessity of in the strict Ro- man Catholic sense, one of the early corruptions of Christianity, 385. Acacia Vera, or Gum Arabic thorn, 582, 605. Achaquas, care of for their graves, 576.
Acorn-Bird of the Sierra de
Alabaster burnt, or, plaster of Paris, 337.
ALARIC and the Enchanted Statue, 360. Albatrosses, 577.
Albigenses and Wuldenses, 400. Aleppo, lightness of the water of, and consequent goodness, 432.
Aleutian Islanders, their uses of the Sea-Dog, 560. ALEXANDER, how he got rid of his horns, 618. Allegiance, uncertainty of the Oath of, 79. Alliteration, use of by Philip Henry, 23.
Almanack, Poor Robin's, 659. ALPHONSUS ad Valentiam ABI
AHMEDо parcit, 260. Alquitran, Fuego de, read by Jayme at Valencia, 330. Alten, the river of, 633. ALVAR FANEZ, mentioned by Sandoval, 262.
ALVARA DE BRITO PESTANA, a el Rey D. Fernando, Trovas de, 238.
Amanuenses women, early use of, 359.
Amazon, the current of, 666. Ambassadors, handsome allow- ance made to by the Parlia mentarians, 154. Travels,
Ambergris, use of, 518. Amboynese Christians, their offering to the Evil Spirit, 505.
AMBROSE, SAINT, his works castrated by the Francis- cans, 390. Amentum of the Orinoco Tribe, 533.
AMERICAN TRIBES, Incidental and Miscellaneous Illustra- tions, 522, &c.
America, suggestions as to the population of, 522.
Amiens, the white Pigeon of,
Anas Glacialis, account of, 604. ANCHIETA, JOSEPH DE, ac- count of, 226. Anchovies taken by Flame, not so good as those not so ta- ken, 597. Angels, doctrine of, 5. The queen of, title of a Poem by Fr. Alonzo Perez Seraphi- no, 15. "Angling, Secrets of," direc- tions for line-making from, 330.
ANTHOLOGIA CATHOLICA, 378. ANTHOLIN, SAINT, averter of barrenness, 111. Antioch, soap and oil-olive of,
Ants of the river Corentyn, 525. Omnivorous Ants of Africa, Ibid. The White Ant an article of food, 526. The Amphisbona, or King
of the Emmets, Ibid. Huge | Atahualpa, the cruelty of, 522. | BANDARRA, GONCALO ANNES,
Ant hills, 529. Destruc- tiveness of the Ant tribe, 530. Used as food, 532. Great red ones of Ceylon, 589.
Apostles' Spoons, 663. Apparition, Eastern, 404. Apricot Stone, the delicacy of, 479.
Aprons, green, 338.
Arab Horsemen, dexterity of, 439. Music, 451. Hospi- tality, 487. Simplicity of the Bedouin, 487. Accou- trements of, 516. Longe. vity of, 632. Arabic, pattering of by Mus selmen without understand- ing, 77.
Arafat, Kufa, and Mecca, the successive abodes of Adam, 402.
Araucana, extracts from, 528,
529. Language, 535. Archers, instructions for In- dian and Hindoo, 426. Archery, latest mention of the intended use of, 148. Areca Tree, 501. Arithmetic Easy, the value of,
Armour, death from weight and heat of, 319. Impenetrable, 347. Forged for themselves by early Knights, 355, Arms, combat of, trial by, 338. Arms and armour, 345. Go- thic skill in the use of, 360. ARNEOSTE, the great giant of Quiquifs, 470. Arslan-Ula, the Lion's Moun- tain, 515.
Artichoke, used by the Greeks
to curdle milk, 647. ARTHUR, KING, his hall, 635. Fabulous history of referred to as a true history, 636, 641. Hebrew MS. of his history in the Vatican, Ibid. Asiatic Cities, difference be- tween the distant prospect and the interior of, 468. Re- searches quoted, 483. Ass, superstition relative to the Ass of Jesus, 406. Assum, belief of the natives concerning the treasure of the Barabuinia, 426. Astronomy, Wesley's doubts about, 116.
Athenians Modern, belief a-
mongst that the ancient sta- tues are real bodies tenanted by a spirit called Arabian, 607. ATHELSTAN, the sword of Con- stantine and the spear of Charlemagne sent as pre- sents to, 355. ATHERTON, BISHOP, supposed by Carte to have been ac- cused unjustly, and a victim to Lord Cork's resentment, 204.
AUGUSTINE, ST. Origin of the Africanisms in his style, 2. Aurora Borealis, 580. Aurungbad, city of, and throne of Aurungzebe, 417. AURUNGZEB, his letters to Azim Shah, and Prince Kam Bukhsh, 456. His horse- men, and the Eastern Ama- zon, 513.
Autumnal Leaf, effects of the October frosts on, in Ameri- ca, 593.
Avarice, the undress of, 316. Aratar, the Buddha, 464. Awa, the Rushing of, a whirl- pool on the coast of Japan,
Banian Tree, near Manjee, 407. Banner, gorgeous, 635. Banquet, i. e. dessert, 323. Bantam Cock and the Broad- ¦ side, 607.
Baptized, the, and the unbap- tized, 108.
BARCENA, the Jesuit, instance of profound humility in, 119. BARD, HENRY, afterwards VIS- COUNT BELLAMONT, account of, 148.
Bardic, use of the letters O. I. W. 623.
Bardouk Powder, 637.
Bark Indian, used as food, 604. BARRIOS, MIGUEL DE, 264, 268, 274.
BARROS, his forcible use of popular words, 214, 425. Bases, what? 322. BASTWICK, account of, 174. Wrote an excellent Latin style, 175.
Bats of Brazil attack the poul- try, 594. BAUMGARTEN's Travels. The
Arabian bitch that deserted her whelps, 491. Moving sands, Ibid. Musical lamps and arrows of fire, 492. Baran, the beautiful valley of,
BAXTER, his Retrospect, 17.
Addison led to read his wri. tings by a piece he found under a Christmas pie, 107. His extreme notions on the efficacy of prayer. 111. On infants' guilt and corruption, 113. His persuasion that the Papists furthered the work of schism and confu- sion, 149.
Baya, the Hindoo Bird, 469. BAYLE, on the increase of fa- naticism, 144. BEAL, his dying words, “I be-
lieve the resurrection," 194. Beans, the questionable health- iness of, 340. Bear. A she-bear with young
never killed in America, 646. Beauty, exquisite, 636. BEDELL, BISHOP, Laud's high opinion of, 135. Strafford brought over to esteem, 179. Sum devoted to the publica- tion of the Irish Bible, 184.
View of the Pope's king- | Bible, difficulty in finding one
dom in Ireland, 197. Beech-tree, antipathy of snakes and vipers to, 580. Begging like a Cripple at a Cross, 295.
BEHMEN, JACOB, his notion that the earth is to become transparent as glass, 37. BELLARMINE, monstrous pas- sage from, 13. Bells, superstitious ringing of, 54. First ring of bells in England, 55. The Saints' Bell, what? 78. Huge one made from the cannon which the Turks left when they raised the siege of Vienna,
Bemoll, i. e. B molle, soft, or, flat, 334. Benares, a Brahmin's notion of its not belonging to this earth shook by an earth- quake, 409. Ornamental embankments at, 477. BENEDICTINES, 369. St. Be- nedict said to be descended from Anicius, the first great Roman who was converted, 370. Have the same miracles with the Dominicans, 390. Benshi, origin of, 360. BERCEO, D. GONZALO DE, 20. Remedies, or rather appli- cations for the gout in his days, 287. Safeguard of in- nocence, 289. Education, 291, 319, 320. BERNARD, SAINT, his device,
in Paris during the peace of Amiens, 1.
Bilbo catch, game of, 316. BINNING, HUGH, Cromwell's
reply to his learned opposi tion to his ministers, 196. Birch-wood, Sweedish shep- herds' horn of, 613. Birch-tree Bark, uses to which it is applied in California,
BIRCHBECK's Protestant Evi- dence, quoted, 390. Bird, the, shooting at, Danish diversion, 353. How caught by water near Jerusalem, 490. Immense flight of, 604. Biscayans and Catalonians,
their love for their country,
Biscayners, advance up the river of Limerick forty or fifty miles, and interference with the fisheries, together with a capture of two or three Dutchmen, 182. Bishops, unfounded charge against them as hindering the printing of good books, 47. Forbidden to keep dogs and birds of prey, 90. Pro- posal that bishops and arch- bishops should be of noble blood, 105. "No bishop, no king," origin of the ex- pression of, according to Mil- ton, 395. Black-Guard, what? 638. Black-thorn, the leaves of, a substitute for tea, 602. Black Tents of the Bedoweens,
Blacksmiths, their value in-
stanced, 325. Great swords and smiths of Spain, 346. Bleeding immoderate, 340. BLESSIS, ST. and ST. ALGARE at Malvern, 56. Blood, Deluge of Christian,272. Blood-stone of New Spain, ac- count of from Doctor Mo- nardus, 538.
Blouses, the Turcoman, 423. BOHEMIA, Conversion of, 53. Boiling-Spring of Barbadoes,
Bolt and Screw, to fasten doors with, 339. BONAVENTURA, introducedAve Maria at Vespers, 371.
Brazil, Anchietas's supposed prophecy relative to the gold of, 659. Bread Fruit, 577. Brecknockshire, JONES's His- tory of, quoted, 321, 325. Facilities of breeding fish in, 595.
Breech, salt and vinegar used in making one, 330. Bridge, hammock, wonderful, 533. BRIDGEMAN, BISHOP, OF CHES- TER, Letter from to Straf- ford, thanking him for judi- cious Church promotions,
181. Brith-unde Britones, 662. Broughton Hall in Craven, tra- dition there, 147.
cle, 665. BUCHANAN, the buildings call- ed by the Europeans Choul- try, what? 499. The Hu- vina, or, Flower Gardens, 501.
Buchsinoe, Lake of, 609. BUCKINGHAM, DUKE OF, do- minus equorum et aquarum, 177.
BUDDAS-BOODHA-vestiges of Christianity in the East, 519.
Buffaloes, concealed in the water in hot weather, 423. Buffin Gowns, 338. Bumbard, mention of, 311. Bupleurum Giganteum, count of, 584.
BURG, MR. his Utopian Ro- mance, 641.
BURGESS, CORNELIUS, sermon before the House of Com- mons, 144. BURGUILLOS, TOME DE, 260, 270, 289.
Burial inefficient, one cause of the frequent pestilential dis- eases in Turkey, 446. At sea, 570.
BURNET, BISHOP, his declara- tion that resistance on ac- count of religion is unlaw- ful, 195. Burning of an Indian Chief in
the district of Castilla del Oro, 531. BURNYEAT, JOHN, the l'Envoy which follows the Preface to his Work, 664. Butterflies at Catharina, 586. Buzo, or, White Wood, 605.
the English criminal law,
CALDCRON, 252-254. Calicut, Thevenot's mistake, respecting, 279.
California, New, baskets of, 594. Boxes of, 660. Calumet, description of the, 572.
CALVIN, his ill temper, that devil of impatience that raged in him, and was not yet tamed, 192. Calvinism, political character of, 193. Cambay, trade of, precious stones at, 428. Fine Mau- soleum of the Mogul of Cambaya, 433.
Camel, honour paid to the, which carries carpets to Mecca, 443. Saleh's camel, 453. The old camel, 607 Cameleopard, 601.
Camelion, change of colour in, 598.
Camfrain, what, 344. CAMOENS, 258
CANCIONERO GENERAL, quo-
tations from, 211-224, &c. 264, 273, 283, 294, 352, 359. Candles made of pine splints,
the Mongals and Tartars, 474. Chingis Cham's pro- gress impeded by a cloud, ib. Eastern Troglodytes:- noise of the sun rising the cause of their living under ground-How the Tartars were driven out of the coun- try by men in the shape of dogs, 475. Carruck, huge Portugueze,
Carrion, river, 281. Cartagena, 273. CARTE'S LIFE OF ORMONDE, extracts from, 203, &c. His just, hard, character of Archbishop Abbot, 204. CARVER, JONATHAN, Travels &c. Sand Cherries - The Sumack, 561. Question of Indian entrenchments and fortifications, 562. Hiero- glyphics of the cave of Wa- konteebe, or, the dwelling of the Great Spirit-Eagle's eyries-Blue clay paint, a mark of peace - Rattle- snakes, Water lilies, and Water snakes, 563. The hissing snake- Thunder bay-Indian designation of the months, 564. Life and death of the moon - War- dance-Wakon-Kitchewah, or, Initiation into the Friendly Society of the Spirit, 565. The red paint- ed hatchet of war, 566. The death-song of the In- dians-Indian war-whoop- Indian adoption-The Car- cajou, 567. The Whipper- Will, or, as it is termed by the Indians, the Muckawiss
The Wakon bird- The swift lizard-The yellow ash, which is only found near the head branches of the Mississippi, 568. The Whickopick or Suckwick— Species of the willow-The elder, 569. Indian stealth, and form of submission, 575.
CASAUBON, MERIC, excellent conduct of, when required by Cromwell to write the history of the war, 194. CASHELL, ARCHBISHOP OF, said by Strafford to be as
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