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GENERAL INDEX.

A

164, 366

479* Coleridge and the malmsey"

166 Adventurer's story, the 437 Comets, return of

367 Africa

156 Comparative pleasures of science 323 African coast 165 Condition of ihe Irish poor

295, 450 Alagna, customs of 46 Conductibility

288 Alfadhel Alderamy 259 Constantinople, gleanings at

464 Algiers 166 Contagious fever

88 Americans, the, notions of 446 Corsican honour

365 Anatomy of drunkenness 198 “ Cottar's Saturday night," the

325 Ancient Autes and flute-players 196 Court of chancery, history of the 103 Andrew Cleaves 16, 49, 92, 129 Crocodile, tame

47 Anecdotes 128 Crossing the line

184 Anthropology 369 Curious bird

368 Artificial stone 288 Customer, a, how to secure

487 Arts, the

205 Ascent of a mountain in Ireland 355 Dean Swift's meditations upon a broomA wedding at school 265 stick, origin of

202

Death of young Park Bachelor's beat, the, No. IV.

61 Deputies, the French Chamber of 426 Christmas, the 61 Dilatory inclinations

208 Beet root, sugar from 487 Dreamer, the

362 Bell ringing 208 Drunkenness, anatomy of

198 Billy Butterworth, the Oldham hermit 191 Bituminous volcano 164 Earwig, the

365 Blind bookseller of Augsbourg 365 Eastern story-tellers, the

340 Bombast: more or less

367 Edgeworth,
Maria

253 Bonaparte, anecdote of 47 Edinburgh Review, the

471 Books and bookworms 84 Education

407 Bornon insolvent act

87
in the Netherlands

206 Bossuet 288 Effeminacy of the Romans

208 Botanical curiosity 205 Entertaining journey

166 Brougham, Mr.

159 Burns, Robert 281 Falls of Niagara

326 Byron, Lord 289, 336 Famine, sufferings from

475 Fashionable visiting

362 Camillus and the Gauls

366 Fashions for February, 1828 Campbell's, Miss D. P., poems 348 Fever ship, the

78 Captain Durville's expedition 158 Flutes and flute-players, &c.

1.96 Cats, fascinating power of 487 Foreign debts

327 Charms of retrospection 40 Fosadoni, the two brothers

88 Chiffoniers, the 279 French Chamber of Deputies, the

426 Chinese method of dunning

407
police

203 Christopher Columbus, life and voyages

Fulfilment of prophecy

105 of 243 Funeral ceremonies

367 Chronicles of the Canongate

248 Climbing plant, extraordinary 408 German gibbet, the

374 Clonmel assizes, the last 450 Giant, the, and the dwarf

35 Clothing, warm 486 Good, John Mason

147 Coal-tar on fruit trees, injurious effects of 167 Great Britain, population of

368 Cobbett, Mr. 329 Gauger, the

215 Coffee 368 Gypsies

165