purpose of noting the slow progress of justice, equity, and common sense, in all subjects, connected with legislation, to remark, that it was not till the reign of Henry the Eighth, that an Englishman could devise his lands by will. All went to the heir. Even then only socage lands were devisable, and two thirds of military tenures. After the restoration, and not till then, the right and power of devising all lands, but copyholds, became universal. Even now, lands are neither answerable for simple contract debts, nor even for the payment of the money, contracted to be paid for its purchase. These debts must be paid by the assets, that the heir may receive an unencumbered estate. So that if a man has fifteen children, and has purchased an estate worth £5,500, and dies intestate before he has paid for it, possessed of only £5,501 in money and moveables, the £5,500 must be paid for the estate, for the eldest son to inherit, and the remaining fourteen children receive not quite 1s. 6d. a-piece. We are certainly a moral nation; a scientific nation; a high minded nation; and a nation, pre-eminently gifted in almost every respect:-but in respect to the art of simplifying laws, we are mere children yet. INDEX TO VOL. I. Aber Cataract, 57 Abercorn family, cemetery of the, 277 Abraham and the angels, 173. Abyssinia, shepherds of, 67 Activity, geographical, 234 Adam's peak, 115 Adams, 148 And Addison, his comparison of 6th book of Paradise Lost. 238 Admetus and Alcestis, 168 Adonis, river of, held sacred, 10. Adrian on Mount Etna, 187 123. 215. Passage from, 273 Aisle, gothic origin of, 91 Alabaster pulverized, 164 Alexander, invokes rivers as deities, 3. His answer to Parmenio, 216. Barentz, his remarkable voyage, 230 Baseness of mankind, instance of, 73 Bauber, emperor, 325 Beauty, of, 39. The reverence of the people of El Bedja for it, 169 Bedja, El, emerald mines of, 169 Belarius, hospitality of, 176 Benares, curious custom at, 7 Bernard, St., monks of, 143 Bethgelart, 139 Bibulus, women of, 10 Bienne, lake of, 54 Birds, music of, 259. Marine, cry of, Blair, 78 Blanc, Mont, the appearance of the stars on, 339 Bloomfield, fine passage from, 351 Bonnet, the pride of Geneva, 56 Boudon, king of, his speech to Mr. Bouhours, a beautiful simile of, 304 Bramah, first taught the Indians to Bramins, their placidity of disposition, 74 Bread-fruit tree, 69 Brientz, lake of, 54 Britons, their hospitality, 175. An- cient manners and customs of, 97 Bruce, his opinion relative to the > Carraccas, climate of, 156 Carthaginians, irhospitality of, 168 Castalia, fountain of, 41 Castera, an illustration from, 20 Catherine, Mount St., 127 Caucasus, the, 122 Caufirs, their hospitality, 180 Charles XII., 20 Chatterton, 293 Chenevix, quotation, 249. Chinese love of flowers, 301 Chrysostom, St., a saying of his, 178 Clemency, the Athenians would not 35 Clitumnus, the, 5. 36 Clouds, their colours compared to Code of Justinian, 371 Colonna, his pleasure in climbing Colony, Scotch, at the Isthmus of Colophon, fountain of, 41 Colours, beauty of, 329 Como, lake of, 53 Comparison, we judge of every object Congoese, their hospitality, 171. Their Conrad of Wurzburg, 272 Consecration of groves, 60. For- Cook, his reflections in Eooa, 129 Cow, consequence of the, lessened, 71 Cracow, fountain of, 43 |