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Smyth, Captain, examined Epps's work, 253

depended on his chronometers, 372
Smyth, Mrs. drew the heliometer, 245

her bust, 123

Smyth, C. P. copied the Lee brass, 94
on Encke's comet, 342
Smythian orbit of y Virginis, 339
Snake-stones or ammonite, 24
Solly, Mr. of Port Madoc, 211
Somerville, Mrs. her bust, 123
Sonnini on Pompey's pillar, 195
Sotheby sold Salt's museum, 200
sold Barker's collection, 208

South, Sir James, 226

letter from, 243

on Herculis, 299

South Repps, Rectory of, 87

South Sea Island implements, 140
Southey quoted on the dead, 222
Southwarp, near Bishopstone, 21
Spelman quoted, 45

Spenser, canto of, not superior to a medal, 150

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Study, amply stocked for reference, 108

Succession to Hartwell, 44

Suckling, Sir J. his picture by Lady E. Lee, 84
by Vandyck, 117

his character, 118

maternal ancestor of Nelson, 63

Sudden extinguishing of stars, 304
Suite of Louis XVIII. 391
Summer described, 17

Sunday-school of Stone and Hartwell, 10
Sussex, Duke of, interested in Egypt, 185
Sweden, King of, at Hartwell, 379
Syene, its quarries mentioned, 194

Table of Contents, iv.

Tablets, Greek marble, 137

Tacitus alludes to Egyptian letters, 174
Tail of a comet always altering, 346
Talipot leaves from Ceylon, 141
Talleyrand, the supple, 386
Ta-na-ua, daughter of Har, 219

Tangents, difficult to obtain correct, 330

Tattam, Dr. his Coptic Dictionary, 206

Tau, an Egyptian emblem, 160

Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV. in 1291, 11

Telescopes compared, 244

Tellurian, by Dr. Pearson, 123

Temperature, statement of, 15

Tenantry unaltered, 97

Teneriffe, bodies dried there, 210
Terriers show Hartwell woody, 38
Teshr, general head-dress, 179

Thackeray, Dr. Joseph, his benevolence, 90
Thame, its junction with the Isis, 2
Theban tombs contained fruits, 199
Theory by an assistant astronomer, 345
Thermometer, dry-bulb, and others, 353
Thermometric monthly range, 16
Thomas, son of W. de Luton, 53

de Luyton, 54

Thomas, Mr. the medallist, 152
Thornhill, Sir J. ceiling of the hall, 105
Thoth or Mercury, 162

Thothmes, the mighty king, 213

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William the Conqueror, 46

Willis, Browne, quoted, 11, 64, 66, 97
Winchendon, effect of its hills on atmosphere, 15
Winds prevalent at Hartwell, 15

Wing, effect of its hills on atmosphere, 15
Winged globe, its meaning, 218

Witt, Dr. presented some skeletons, 141
Wits' Recreations searched in vain, 120
Wolsey the butcher's dog, 3

fond of building palaces, 102
Women-brewers fined, 51

Wonne, derivation and meaning of, 94
Wood-cut of muniment-room, 101
of part of staircase, 111
of Amun, 161

Woody character of Hartwell, 7
Wordsworth's sonnet, 393

Wrecked treasure, how recovered, 359
Wright, Captain, of the Foresight, 359
Wrottesley, Lord, his telescope, 244
elements of y Virginis, 337

Wrottesley, Lord, epoch of 1851 for y Virginis, 342
Wyatt, coachman of Despatch, 33

Wyatt, James, R.A. his tasteful bridge, 40
Wycombe, borough of, 64

Wymer Hertwelle, 56

Yarmouth, landing of Louis XVIII. 375, 384
Year divided into portions, 185

Yolland, Captain, on Trigonometrical Survey, 250
Yorke, Charles, son of Lord Hardwicke, 72
Young, Sir W. his verses on Hartwell, 88
hired Hartwell, 385

Young, Dr on the Rosetta stone, 155

Zach, Baron de, on Pompey's pillar, 198
quoted on meridian marks, 236
his notes on the Author's letters, 372
Zamia cycadia, good model, 141

Zeal in meteorology, 19

Zenobia, sculpture in her age, 138

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