first of the arts of peace, 442, 443; the
steward of the great family of man,
444; in Great Britain, 446; Report on
that of Massachusetts, 455; the first of
the arts of peace, 467; the Bible on,
467; early history of, 468, 469; imple-
ments of, 468; in England, 468; the
great improvements in, in ancient times,
468; importance of international com-
parison in, 475; new products of, to be
expected, 476; happy social effects of
the interest taken in, in England, 477,
648; of the United States, may be ex-
tended by products from China, 476;
connection of geology with, 548; im-
portance of intelligence in, 614; to be
preferred to all other pursuits, 646–648 ;
lies at the basis of the social system,
647; highly estimated by the ancients,
647; estimation of, by the Chinese and
by the English of the present day, 647,
648; celebrated by Thomson, 647; im-
plements of, in England, 648; wheat
the great staple of, in temperate re-
gions, 648; of New England, 648, 649;
profits of, 649; capital invested in, in
England, 648; insects injurious to, 648;
advantage of railroads to, 650; im-
provements in, resulting from the habit
of returning to settle in one's native
place, 651; importance in, of cultivating
trees, 651, 652; importance of, to com-
merce and manufactures, III. 539; its
obligations to commerce, 543; takes
precedence of all other pursuits and oc-
cupations, 539; (all must eat before they
can discharge the duties of life, 539,
540); the only defence against famine,
540; (mankind and the domestic ani-
mals viewed at breakfast, dinner, and
supper, 541); requires the resources of
science, art, and appropriate education
in many branches, 541, 542; Lord Lei-
cester's success in, by claying light soils,
542; geology, mineralogy, and chemis-
try must guide the farmer in his mix-
ture of soils in, 542; chemistry ap-
plied to, by Davy and Liebig, 542;
discoveries in, by modern chemistry,
548; annual exhaustion in, must be re-
stored by the annual renovation of the
soil, 543; benefits to, of lime, gypsum,
and marl, 543; Mr. Mechi's success in,
by the application of fertilizing liquids
to his lands, 543; water one of the most
effectual fertilizers in, 543; Lord Ash-
burton's success in, by irrigation, in
Hampshire, 544; the Duke of Portland's
do., at Clipstone, 544; Colman's vol-
umes on European, 544; importance
of drainage in, 544; drainage in, in

Holland, 544; province of science and
art in, in the preparation of the soil, 545;
(from mineral and inorganic substances
to vegetable organization a great as-
cent, 545; the mysteries of assimilation,
growth, and decay, 545); knowl-
ledge in, for the most part empirical,
546; successful additions to its list of
productions, 546; (derivation of various
products, 546; some of those which are
the indigenous growth of America, 546,
547; new vegetable products will prob-
ably be introduced into the United
States, 547, 549; organic husbandry
one of the richest departments of science,
and one almost wholly in its infancy,
548; the wonders in the structure and
growth of the seed revealed by the mi-
croscope, 548; grafting and hybridiza
tion, 548; culture of the grape and the
manufacture of wine in the United
States, 548, 549; recent introduction of
rice and cotton into the United States,
549; recent agricultural reports from
the United States' Patent Office, 549;
the native forests of the West an impedi-
ment to agriculture, 549; too great de-
struction of trees in the Eastern States,
550; agriculture taught in European
universities, especially those of Ger-
many, 550; insects and vermin injuri-
ous to vegetation, 550; improved im-
plements of husbandry, 551, 552, n.;
agriculture at the West, 551, n., 552, n.;
agricultural machinery, 551, 552, n.);
importance to, of domestic animals, 552-
554; improvements of breeds in, 553;
a liberal pursuit, 554; does not enjoy
its deserved rank as a profession in
America, 554; properly esteemed in
England, 555; (agricultural life, a sober
estimate of, 556; the average condition
of the agricultural masses decides the
character of a people, 556; antiquity
and dignity of the profession of agricul-
ture, 557, 558; anecdotes, from Xeno-
phon, of Cyrus the Younger and Ly-
sander, 559; Cincinnatus, Paulus Æmil-
ius, Scipio, Cato, Burke, Washington,
Jefferson, Adams, Calhoun, Clay, and
Webster, all agriculturists, 559-563);
has kept pace with all other pur-
suits, and continues to be the foun-
dation of the social system, 560; its pri-
mary importance to individual and na-
tional welfare urged by Washington in
his last annual message, 561, 562,
640; Cicero on the pleasures of its
pursuits, 563; its religious teachings,
563, 564; (the wonders of vege
tation an annually recurring mira

cle, 564-566; a well-situated, well-cul-
tivated farm described, 566, 567); of
the Southern United States, 640. (See
also, 83, 88, 97, 98, 147, 148, 149, 150,
151, 154, 246, 248, 336, 370, 384, 385,
389, 403, 404, 405.)
Agrigentum and Selinus, the majestic
ruins of, II. 400.

AGRIPPA, his four great roads, III. 582.
Aid to the Colleges, Speech on Feb. 1st,
1848, II. 540-554; Second Speech on
Feb. 7th, 1849, 605-629.
AINSWORTH, ROBERT, his reference to
the University of Cambridge, II. 170.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of, concluded in
1740, I. 126, 391, 584.
Alabama, cotton of, I. 297.

Aladdin, the lamp of, II. 298, 612.
Albania in 1818, III. 626; description
of an Albanian, II. 402.

Albany, in New York, referred to, I. 261,
262, 385, 392, 396, 473; II. 41, 146,
148, 149, 150, 231, 364, 368; III. 422,
426, 427, 432, 643.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS, the light of the
thirteenth century-his twenty-one fo-
lios compared with a newspaper of the
present day, I. 601.

ALCEUS, translations of, by Horace, I. 25.
Alchemy, prevalence of, in the middle
ages, I. 247, 248, 256; the common
procedure of, condemned by Lord Ba-
con, and another one propounded by
him, I. 614; experiments in, led to the
discovery of gunpowder, I. 619; its
promises, III. 110, 388.
ALCINOUS, the gardens of, II. 401.
ALCUIN, instance of a self-taught man,
I. 407; obligations of France to, for
her polite literature, 407.

Aldebaran, III. 461.

Alexandria, Bible translated at, II. 668.
Alexandrian age, its literature compared
with that of the Periclean age, I. 25;
the grammarians and critics of the, 611.
ALFONSO II., Duke of Ferrara, confines
Tasso in a mad-house, I. 26.
ALFRED, the Great, veneration with
which his memory is regarded, III. 59.
Algebra, importance of, III. 512; obli-
gations of Newton and Liebnitz to, I.

297.

Algiers, humbled by the United States
in 1815, I. 340, 432, 433; expedition
of the French to, in 1829, 516.
Algonquin Indians, III. 643.
Alhambra, taken possession of by Ferdi-
nand and Isabella, II. 362.
Alien and Sedition Laws, the, opposed
as unconstitutional, II. 96.
ALI PACHA furnishes Edward Everett
and Theodore Lyman with a soldier in
1818, III. 626; his residence, and his
death, II. 402.

ALISON, Sir ARCHIBALD, account, in his
"History of Europe, 1789-1815," of the
reception of the news of the Battle of
Waterloo in England, III. 141; his
History corrected, 634.

Alkalies and Earths, their metallic basis
discovered by Sir H. Davy, 1. 305;
decomposed by him by the application
of galvanic electricity, 305. (See
Acids.)

Alleghany Mountains, I. 127, 579, 580,
584, 585, 589; II. 51, 182, 213, n., 366,
464; III. 67.

Alleghany River, II. 147; III. 643.
ALLEN, Rev. THOMAS, of Charlestown,
I. 183.

ALLEY, SOLOMON, killed at Bloody
Brook, I. 670.

of Epitaphs, II. 138.

ALDRICH, JAMES, his lines on the death
of Daniel Webster, III. 166.
ALEXANDER, his conquests, and their
influence, I. 51, 124, 263, 604, 618; II.
271, 305, 377, 441, 507, 521, 667; III.
15, 200, 393, 395, 438, 559.
ALEXANDER, Emperor of Russia, offers
to mediate between Great Britain and
America, II. 575.
ALEXANDER III. (See POPE ALEXAN-
DER III.)

ALEXANDER, Chief of the Narragan-
sets, suspected of hostile designs to-
wards the colonists, I. 644.
ALEXANDER, Prof. STEPHEN, his paper
on Nebula, III. 455, n.
ALEXANDER, THOMAS, killed at Bloody
Brook, I. 670.

by apostate Jacobins and Napoleonists,
I. 510, 514.

ALLIN, JOHN, killed at Bloody Brook,
I. 670.

ALLSTON, WASHINGTON, combination
of advantages possessed by, I. 298; the
paintings of, II. 460.
Alma, the, III. 590.

Alma Mater, propriety of the term, II.

170.

Almanac, its value, I. 296; result of pro-
found philosophical investigations, I.

296-297.

Almanac, Poor Richard's, published by
Franklin, II. 40.

Almsgiving, promiscuous, seldom a real
charity, III. 108, 109.

Almshouses, not made schools of instruc-
tion, III. 109; opinion on the Alms-

house system in England, III. 109; on
those of the United States, 221.
Alnwick Castle, domestic economy of, in
the days of Elizabeth, II. 298.
Aloe tree, in Sicily, II. 401.
Alphabet, importance of the invention of
the, I. 300; II. 241, 249, 279; first
used among a commercial people, 305;
marvellous effects of the combination
of the letters of the, III. 511.

Alps, a railroad across the, contemplated,
II. 366, 370; a barrier of intellectual
communion, 460; glaciers of, III. 581;
referred to, 582.

Altai Mountains, I. 51.
Altamaha, III. 319.

Althorp, Lord Spencer's Library at, the
best private one ever seen by Mr. Ev-
erett, III. 419.

Altona, the Marchioness de Lafayette ar-
rives at, Sept. 9, 1795, I. 504.
Alumni. (See Harvard College.)
Amalgamation by mercury, unknown in
the middle ages, I. 248.

AMASIS, King of Egypt, his mode of
life, III. 406.

Ambassador, Sir Henry Wotton's defini-
tion of an, III. 371.

Ambition of republics, I. 124; a fruitful
cause of war, 124; should be sacrificed
to patriotism, but seldom is, II. 271.
Amboy, New Jersey, Franklin arrives at,
in 1723, II. 33.

"America," by A. H. Everett, II. 139.
America. (See also, United States, in
General Index.)

Annals of, by Abiel Holmes, II. 110.
Antiquities of, II. 111, 209.
Authors of, read in England, II. 428,
429, 437, 451, 462, 463, 464.
Books relating to, in Harvard Col-
lege Library, II. 549.

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with,
excels all Grecian and Roman elo-
quence, II. 655.

Civilization of, I. 338; III. 494-499.
Climate of the Atlantic Coast of, II.
438, 444, 470, 648-650.

17. (See Seven Years' War, in Gen-
eral Index.)

Indians of, I. 193, 237-239; III. 190,
246, 247, 248, 317, 318, 424, 493,
494, 497, 538, 595. (See Indians,
American, in General Index.)
Indigenous products of, II. 475, 476;
III. 546.

Legation of, at Constantinople, III.56.
Literature of, I. 9-44; III. 73, 179.
Paleontological researches in, II. 209.
Population of, in 1833, I. 422.
Providential superintendence over, I.
636; II. 491.

Revolution in, II. 560; III. 11, 13,
14, 18-28, 61, 292, 298, 330, 336,
529, 632, 633.

School books in, before 1800, III. 74.
Settlement of, I. 50, 51, 52; II. 475;
III. 16, 496.

Spanish settlements in, I. 637; II.
577; III. 16.

Washington, influence of, in, III.
636. (See WASHINGTON, GEORGE,
in General Index.)

Yeomanry of, their intelligence and
prosperity, I. 17.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
publishes Father Rasles's Vocabulary,
II. 118; Remarks at a special meeting
of the, March 20, 1838, on occasion of
the death of Dr. Bowditch, II. 262-267;
its proceedings on occasion of the death
of Dr. Bowditch, 263; Governor Bow-
doin, first President of, II. 385; eulogy
of Governor Bowdoin in the Memoirs
of, 385; astronomical papers in the early
volumes of its Memoirs, III. 428.
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, III. 430.
American Astronomical Journal. (Sce
GOULD, Dr. B. A.)

American Biography, by Belknap, II.
110; Sparks's Library of, II. 138, 139,

140.

III. 24.

Constitutions of, I. 21, 103-130, 151-
171, 488; II. 110.

Discovery of, I. 56, 217, 218, 219,
251; II. 175, 217, 218, 306, 307,
362, 435, 436, 447, 632; III. 195–
223, 237, 491–493. (See Columbus,
in General Index.)
Education, the chief cause of the
civilization of, III. 495-499.
Europe, obligations of, to, III. 174.
French settlements in, I. 584; III.
VOL. III.

an Oration at Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, 4th July, 1826, I. 103-130.
American Criminal Trials, by Peleg
W. Chandler, II. 138.
American Farmer, Letters of, an account
of Lafayette's visit to America in 1784
in the, I. 482.

American Flag, invocation respecting the,
I. 554, 555.

American Institute of the City of New
York, Address delivered before, II.
69-106; its laudable objects, 71, 72,

basis of

ANGOULEME, Duchess of, error of Sir
Walter Scott respecting, I. 506, n.
Animal electricity, probable results of the
discovery of, II. 525.
Animal life, valuable as the
moral existence, I. 358, 359.
Animal kingdom, II. 209.
Animals, Milton's description of the
creation of, I. 613; instinct of, II.
506.

Animals, Treatment of, Remarks at the
meeting of the Legislative Agricultural
Society Boston, 17th Feb., 1852, III.
97, 102.

Animals, domestic, intended by Provi-
dence to be the assistants of man, III.
99, 100; antiquity of the use of, II.
468; nature of, III. 100; referred to,
I. 442, 443; II. 438, 444, 648; con-
sumption of food by, 73; of Great
Britain, 73.

Annapolis, Maryland, the Six Nations
trade at, III. 643; Washington's resig-
nation at, 13.

ANNE of Austria, III. 590.

ANNE BOLEYN. (See BOLEYN, ANNE.)
Annexation of territory by agricultural,
drainage, III. 545.

Anniversary celebrations, propriety and
uses of, II. 154, 155, 159, 169, 181,
206, 326, 327, 445, 639, 653.
Annual Register, Dodsley's, cited, III.
330, 343.

Annus Mirabilis, immortalized by Dry-
den, III. 322.

ANSON, Lord GEORGE, his Voyages, I.

450.

Antiquities of America, investigations in-
to, by the Massachusetts Historical So-
ciety, II. 111.

Apocalypse, the, cities of Ionia mentioned
in, II. 403.

APOLLO, statue of, I. 298.

APOLLONIUS, the Rhodian, compared
with Homer, I. 25.

Apparatus, scientific importance of, in
public schools, II. 501, 517, 544, 546,
609, 611; in the public schools of Mas-
sachusetts, 609, 611; III. 74.
"Appeal from the New to the Old
Whigs," Edmund Burke's, I. 120.
Appian and Flaminian Ways, III. 228.

Apple, when first cultivated in Europe,
III. 546.
APPLETON, Capt. SAMUEL, commands
forces during King Philip's War, I. 651,
652; rescues Hadley in 1675, 657.
APPLETON, SAMUEL, his early interest
in the cotton manufactures in the United
States, III. 368; a contributor to the
Warren Statue, 528.
APPLETON, WILLIAM, a guest at a
dinner given to Thomas Baring, II.

133.

April Nineteenth, at Concord, a Speech
April 19, 1850, II. 653-663.

April, Nineteenth of, a memorable day in
the annals of America, I. 39, 95, 102,
164, 204, 526, 527, 530, 547, 548; II.
47, 165, 187, 652, 653, 655, 658; expe-
dition of, disapproved by the British
ministry, 165; exclamation of Samuel
Adams on, in 1775, I. 547.

Arabs, their wandering life, I. 444; the
same now as in the days of Abraham,

445.

Arabia, John Lowell, Jr.'s, travels in, II.
410; Desert of, 405; language of, 413,
670; I. 338; literature of, 55; Petroca,
Robinson's Researches in, II. 422.
"Arabian Nights," the, its wonders ex-
ceeded by the triumphs of modern
science, III. 48.

ARAGO, François, J. D., his sugges
tions respecting the Egyptian hierogly-
phics, II. 417.

Aragon, I. 157; II. 362.

Arbela, Alexander the Great on the night
before the battle of, III. 393, 438.
Arbella, ship, letter of the Pilgrim Fath-
ers from the, I. 233; arrives in New
England, III. 310.

Arboriculture, of Sicily and of the United
States, II. 400, 401.
Arcadia, I. 428.

Arcetri, the prison of Galileo, III. 450.
Archangel, in Russia, I. 33; II. 192, 229,

290.

ARCHDALE, Rev. Dr., Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Cambridge, toast
given by, July 4, 1842, II. 431, n.
ARCHIMEDES and his lever, the effect of
his experiment had it been successful,
I. 421; ignorant of the law of gravita-
tion, III. 520; rejects the theory of
Pythagoras, 449.

Archipelago, fertile but almost desolated,
I. 170; steam packets to the, II. 371;
Syra the emporium of the, II. 403.
Architect, importance of a scientific edu-
cation to an, III. 370; qualities requi
site to constitute an accomplished, I.

298.