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lake at Keswick when all
was still, 7.
Rainbow and Glow-worm, ef-
fects of, 142; hints for Son-
net on, 200.

Rain Stone, The Magic, 228.
RAISCIAC and his Son, 115.
Raisins, what tree meant by, in
Tusser? 290.

RANDOLPH, extracts from,314,
&c.

Stol-

Ranelagh, Sunday Evening tea-
drinkings at, 339.
Rapperschweil, Count
berg's story of, 274.
Rats, Water, destroyed in Ame-

rica by tape-worm, 460;
black ones tamed in Ger-
many, 469; white rat of
Greenland, Query? 535.
REBOLLEDO, CONDE DE, trans-
lations from, 271-2.
Red-herring on horseback, Eas-
ter-day dish, 373.

Reed, that discovers guilt, 161.
Reformation in Denmark and

Sweden accomplished with-
out a struggle, 683.
RELIGION, Strada's remark on
changes in, 639; and Mr.
Hallam's, 683; scoffers at,
never good statesmen, 687;
a cheerful tone of, wanted as
opposed to the sullen charac-
ter of Calvinism, and the riot
and license of Popery, 691;
agriculturists prone to, 704;
remark of Godfrey Higgins,

717.

REMESAL, DOÑA ANA MARIA,
story of, 194.
Resurrection Plants, or Anas-

tatica, instances of, 432.
Retainers, lowly, 339.
Reticules, advantage of! 442.
Revolution, The, the shock the
monarchy received at, 664.
REYNOLDS, BISHOP, his style
has a resemblance both to
Burton and Barrow, 322;
extracts from, 454, 456, 680,
717.

Rhizomorpha, or phosphoric
fungus, 711.
Rhotacismus, what, 415.
RICHARD II., when his queen
died at Richmond, cursed the
place, and pulled down the
palace, 406.
RICHARDSON, extracts relative
to, 312, &c.

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of, 367; queer one, ib.; ob-
servations on the lettering on
a coffin, 494.
Salamander, deadly venom of,
242; being a long time nou-
rished in the fire, at last
quenched it, 301; Pliny's
winged one, 467.

SALE, extracts from, 97, 101.
Sullet, i. e. casque, or head-
piece, 260.

Saltpetre, from churchyards,
medicinal use of, 546.
Saludadores, or Spanish quacks,

397.

Sumiel, or Simoom, 110.
Samoyedi, precocity of females
amongst, 556.

SANCIE DE NAVARRE, story of,

196.

Sand-sea, grants of, for making
salt, 535.
Sand-writing, of volcanic ori-
ge, from the Canary Islands,

510.

SANDS, DAVID, the Quaker, his
fanaticism, 397.

Sarum, Old, its members, 197.
SAVARY, extracts from, 179,

223.

Saroy Marriages, put an end to,
by the transportation of
Wilkinson, and Greerson his
curate, 563-4.
SAXO GRAMMATICUS, quota-
tions from, 26, 28, 30, 38.
Science, not less vicious and

selfish than trade, hinted by
Sir Humphrey Davy to Fa-
raday, 608.
Scorpion, superstitious notion
about, from Pliny, 443.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER, visit of
Southey to, at Ashiestiel in
1805, 529.

SCOTT, J. his Christian Life,
highly esteemed by Southey,
505, 542.
Screaming, instead of singing,
story of J. Wesley's, 672.
Scripture Extracts, 165, 219,
668, 694, &c.; Texts for
Sermons, 721; for Enforce-
ment, 722, &c.
Scriptures, advice how to read,

639.

Sea-gull, hint for sonnet, 199.
SEAFIELD, EARL OF, saying
of, on signing the engrossed
exemplification of the Act of
Union, 684.

Seam, Priestesses of, 54.
Seasons, alteration of, 165.
Seat of honour, some thing

about, 636.

Sea-Weed, the cutting of, for
kelp, injured the Scottish
fisheries, 708.

SEDGWICK, DR. story of, 613.
SENESINO and FARINELLI, a-
necdote of, 572.

SENHOUSE, H. Esq. of Nether-

hall, Southey's old friend,
colonized the Solway Frith
with good oysters, and first
sashed his windows in Cum-
berland, 405.
Sentence, most absurd of its
kind, 690.
Sentences, 44, 80.
Sepulchre knocking, 244.
Sermon, The, when it teaches

nothing else, teaches pa-
tience, 642; remarks on,
445.

Serpent, the deaf one, 146;
charmers of, 227.
Servant burnt voluntarily with
her mistress, 80.
SEVIGNE, MADAME DE, ex-
tracts, 644, 668.
Sexton of Tunbridge, story of,

359.

SHAFTESBURY, his remark,

that profound often leads to
shallow thought, 466.
Shakespeare, members sworn

on, in mistake for the Bible,
398; extracts from, passim.
Shawl, Indian, curious one,
price 500 guineas, 399.
SHELDON, ABP., his desire for
the gout as an antidote to
apoplexy, 551.

Shells, rare specimens, 401.
SHENSTONE, extracts from, and

remarks on, 335; his un-
common felicity of attract
ing the love of his readers,
338; imitated by Cunning-
hame and Cowper, ib.
Sherbet, or Sorbet, derivation
of, 223.
Shepherds, Guide, &c., curious

account of, 536.
SHERLOCK, Vindication of the
Trinity, South's remark on,

601.

Ship returning to port, idea for
Sonnet, 193.
Shipping, Anglo-Norman, 26.
Shoreditch Bells, and Queen

Elizabeth, 583; sermon an-
nually preached at St. Leon-
ard's on Botanical Philoso-
phy, 575.

Shrove Tuesday, 119.
SHUFFLEBOTTOM, ABEL, hints
for Poems of, 196; amatory
sonnets of, 199.
SHYLOCK, story of, from G.
Leti's Life of Sixtus V. 339.
Siamese Heaven and Hell,-
Hermits, 42.

Siberian earth, superstition re-
lative to, 239.
Side, left, why respectful to

take among the Germans,

625.

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP, Southey's
Life of, 240; extracts rela-
tive to, 321; saying of, that
"he never found wisdom,
where he found not courage,'
639; extracts, 456, 483.
Sight, quickness of, 585; cu-

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rious restoration of, by a
cow's lacerating the eye, 552.
Silence, extracts relative to,
577; good remark about,
from Lady Pomfret's Let-
ters, 620; saying of Am-
brose, 626.
Similies, 6, &c. 52, 260.
Simples, 482.

Sion Chapel, Hampstead, great
place for marriages about
1716, 377.

Sire, name by which the an-

cient Barons affected to be
called, 270.

Skiddaw, view from the bottom
of the first summit, 423.
Slaves, learned ones of Greece,
bought up by illiterate Ro-
mans, who considered their
learning as their own, 715.
Sleeping naked, 164.

Slug, the slime of, a cure for
chafing, and hence called the
Doctor, 555.

Small Pox, American Indian's

name for, 228; increased
in England by Inoculation,
377 infusion of juniper
wood used against, in the
Island of Skie, 548; New
England preserved from by
strict laws vigilantly en-
forced, ib.; originally occa
sioned, Dr. Lister thought,
by the bite of some venom.
ous creature, 551.

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Soles, require prawns and
shrimps for their production,
446.

SOLOMON, reported by Suides
and Cedrenus to have written
of the remedies of all dis-
eases, 549.
SOMERSET, The

Protector,
omen of his fate, 160.
Sommona Codom, Siamese dei
ty, 40.

Son of Man, and Sons of men,
Luther's remark, 415.
SONNERAT, extracts from, 246,
&c.

Sonnet, by B. W. H. 46; un-
less strikingly good, imme
diately forgotten,-likeness
of, to Greek Epigram, 258.
Sophonisba, drinking the Poi-
son, a Monodrama, 193.
Sorrow, Steele's remark on,

645.

Souls, descent of fallen, com-
pared to the Fall of the
Ganges, 42; St. Evremond's
remark on the immortality
of, 637; extracts relative to,
560.

Sounds, Evening, the harshest
harmonized by distance, 200;
remarks on, 572.
SOUTH, extracts and sayings,
640-2; horrid passage con-
cerning original sin, 667.

SOUTHCOTT, JOANNA, her cra-
dle, 391, 393.
SOUTHEY, ROBERT, Verses on
the first day of his residence
in London, 38; easily and
painfully affected, 195; his
belief that spirits of good
men behold the earth, 198.
SOUTHEY, THOMAS, Captain,
R.N., acute observer of na-
ture, 4, 186.

Sow, Mayor chosen by, 341.
Sow's ears may prove good

sauce albeit no silken purse,
saying of Strafford's, 675.
Spaniels, story of the late Duke

of Norfolk relative to the St.
James's, 479.
Spaniard, swallowed up like
Amphiaraus, 77.
Speech, Isaac Vossius, remarks

on, 561.

Spectacles, reason for wearing,

149.

SPEED'S Works, the world in.
debted to Sir Fulk Greville
for, 316.

SPENSER, remarks on, and ex-
tracts relative to, 310-312.
SPENCE, JOSEPH, amiable man,

the Phesoi Ecneps of Tales
of Genii, 351.
Sphinx, or Singh, Hindoo su-
perstition of, 255.
Spirits, extracts relative to,

541, 603; three orders of,
Cardan's notion, 460.
Spirits, Ardent, formerly used
as cordials, 552.
Spleen, all distempers attribut-
ed to, 1662, 556.
Springs, sacred, South's re-
mark, 357.

SPURTZHEIM, DR., shews there

is a great difference between
the skulls of men and wo-
men, 433.
Squirrel, formerly might have
gone from Crow Park to
Wytheburn Chapel,-shew-
ing the quantity of woodland,

535.

Staggers, extraordinary cure
for, 554.

Stags, a herd led by music, 570.
Star-shoot, i.e. Tremella Nos-
toc, 546.
Stars, Paracelsus' notion of
tenebriferous ones, which
bring on the night, 510.
Statutes, a head for, "Capo da |

far statuti.". Ital. Prov.
638.

Steinkirk, muslin neckcloth,
why so called, 261; the bat-
tle alluded to was fought the
beginning of August 1692.
STERLINGE, LORD, his Poem
on Doom's-day, 16, 214; re-
marks on, 328; extracts,
631.

STERNE, L., remarks on, 341;
question as to the reason of
his wife and daughter's re-
tiring to France, 342.
Stinkard, old appellation of the
rabble, 709.

STEVENSON, MATTHEW, au-
thor of Norfolk drollery, 347.
Stiper-stones, burst on, 394.
STILLINGFLEET,
BENJAMIN,
notice of, 350.
STOKES, CAPTAIN, stories of,
his superstition, 361.
STONE, that produces water,
86; field of, in Shropshire,
241; omen of the coronation
stone, ib.; with smell of
corpse, 242; Battle-Stone
field, ib.; thrust down the
throat of a New Zealand
babe, to give him a stony
heart, 599; conjoined with
St. John's Gospel, virtue of,
646; warming stones, 433;
in bladder, immense one,

506.

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Sweet Johns, and Sweet Wil-
liams, 38.
Swimming women, 180; pranks
in, by Galup, a Catalan, 371.
Sword-dance, Italians had one.
Chiaberras' Sonnet, 462.
Sycamore Fig-tree of Egypt,
180, 228.
Sycamore-seeds, quantities that
sprung up during the mild
winter of 1819, on the green
at Greta Hall, 535.
Symbols, Christian, 148.

T.

Taghairn, or Torrent Divina-
tion, 39.

Tailor, determination to be one,
and nothing else, 452.
TALASSI ANGELO DI FERRARA,
story of on being refused an
interview with Cottle, 517.
TALBOT'S Sword, 135.
TANSILLO, extracts, 469.
Taste, not confined to the
mouth. See Arist. Eth. Nic.
446.

TAYLOR, JEREMY, extracts
from, 625, 645.
TCHINTSONG, Emperor of Chi-
na, and the Book, story of,
714.

Tea, how taken on its early

introduction, 402.
Tea-Green, how proved by Dr.
Lettsom to be unwholesome,
610.
Tears, Ali's remarks on, 651.
Teeth-cutting, death from, at
the age of 96, 444.
TEMPLE, SIR W. formed his
style upon Sandys' View of
State and Religion, 325; say-
ings and remarks of, 637;
his heart buried at Moor
Park, near Farnham, 405.
Tench, the Doctor fish, 555.
Tenderness, 54.

Testicles pulverized, virtue of,

243.

THALABA, original sketch of,
181; alterations, 189; notes
for, 212.

Theatre, remarks on, 561;
Bishop Hacket's remark,
562.

THEOCRITUS, story of, 613.
THERESA, ST. 142.

Thieves, adroitness of, in 1717,
376.

Thinking of nothing, good re-

mark on the phrase, 611;
"close and thick," a saying
of Eachard's, 637.
Thistle, grounds laid out in the
shape of, hugest absurdity,
618; why Southey might
have taken it for his motto,
693.

THORKILL, Voyage of, 31.
THOMSON, the Poet, passage

omitted in the Seasons, 346.
THORN, JOSEPH, who? 298.

Thunder-storm at Cintra, eagles
scared by the lightning, 5;
Turkish idea of Novogorod,
god of thunder, 47.
THURCILLUS, vision of, 130.
Till to, i.e. to set, to prepare,

A. S. 523.
TILLOTSON, ABP. story of, 406.
Tilts, Water, at Easter, 119.
Timanthes, death of, 226.
Tipis, efficacy of the water of,

557.

Titicaca, Peruvian lake, 176.
Tixal Poetry, extracts from,

289.

Toad in a stone, happiness and
tranquillity of! 195; call
him ugly and useless, quo-
tha! 199; remarks, and ex.
tracts on, 429; in fountain,

486.

Tobacco, extracts relative to,
593; prevents worms and
greasy heels, and creates a
fine coat in horses, 594;
Captain William Myddleton,
the first who smoked to-
bacco in London, 595;
Adam Clarke's l'amphlet
against, 385.
TOBY PHILPOT, the original

of, Mr. Paul Parnell, 392.
TOOKE, HORNE, request rela-
tive to, 580.

TOON, Lord Liverpool's tailor,

story of his honesty, 367.
Tootia Flower, gathered by
oculists at Eyesti as a grand
specific for diseases of the
eye, 574.
Tortoise-shell shields, 16.
Toulon, story at the evacuation
of, 194.

Trade without restriction, re-
marks on, 689.
Tradesmen, retired, stories of,
354; repeated by an over-
sight, 422.
Traditions, &c. 240.
Translation, remarks on by S.
T. Coleridge, 609.
TRAPP, JOSEPH, first Profess
or of Poetry at Oxford, 349.
Traveller, cast on his own re-
sources, compared to a bear
in winter sucking his paws,

199.

Travelling, Sir Hildebrand Ja-
cob's way of, in 1735, 355.
Trees, extracts concerning, 167;
felling of, in token of grati-

tude as we should pist
one, story of, 543; Eur
pean dwindle in tropical cli
mates, like men, 702.
Trepanning, remarks un, 588.
Triad, Welsh, 45.
Tribes, The Ten, their locality
in the "mountaynes of Cas
pyé," 89.

Tribby, an American abbrevia-
tion, 480.

Trinity, revilers of, effect of
Mr. W. Smith's bill for re
pealing the laws in force
against, 384.
Trichomata Parastasis! 176. 1
Trim, Corporal, the name pro
bably borrowed by Sterne,
from the Funeral, 612.
TRISTAN, Romance of, 282.
Truth, all necessary truth le
gible and plain, 625.
TRYON, THOMAS, epitaph on,

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V.

Vaccination, insisted on by the
Bavarian and Danish govern-
ments, 394, 412.
Vaches, Ranz de, cet air, si chéri

des Suisses, 264.

Vude, always used by Lyly for
fade, 300.

Vale of St. John, great beauty
of, 532.
VALENTIN, French Dancing
Master, story of, 604.
VALENTINE, BP. 135; number
of letters on his day, 354.
Valley of Stones, near Linton,
account of, 520.
Valour, True, 658.
Vanini, question of his Athe-
ism, 429.

Vaudoisie, what? 712.
VAUGELIN, NICHOLAS, his ro-
mantic notion of a pastoral
life, 430.

VEGA LOPE DA, 629.
Velhy, an interjection of sur-

prise,-Valho me Dios, is the
Portuguese exclamation,326.
Vellum, the best material for!

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VOLTAIRE, did he speak of the
Church of Rome as the
whore? 383.

Volutella, simile of, 52; extra.
ordinary plant, 111.

W.

Wad, i. e. black-lead, 531.
Wadham College, altar-piece at,
how wrought, 425.
Wager, queer one, 378.
WAKEFIELD, GILBERT, his in-

flexible honesty, 190.
Wales, description of, from the
Polycronicon, 136, &c.; wars
in, 154; warning against,
169.

WALLER, the Poet, 308.
WALLIUS, his manner of bor-
rowing from the ancient, like
Ebenezer Elliot's from the
moderns, 706.

WALPOLE, H. extracts and re-

marks, 619, 620; striking
saying of, 621-2; remarks
on Gray, 344; his disap-
pointment as to making folly
wiser, 720.

Wandering Jew, suggestion of,
9; story of one who set up
for, 360.

Wannion, query? meaning of,

329.

WARBURTON, his saying, that
the people are much more
reasonable in their demands
on their patriots than mi-
nisters, 636.
War-engine, Archidamas' ex-

clamation on, 164.
War-Pole of the North Ame-

rican Indians, 199, 229.
Warriors, (North American

Indian's) rejoicing Day, 230.
WARWICK, SIR PH. sayings
of, 640.

Wasps, mischief done by, 352.
Waste, great, of good advice

and good intentions, 613.
Wasters, i. e. cudgels, 88.
Water, boring the earth for,

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Weam, i. e. belly,

355;

"A

wamefou' is a wamefau."
St. Ronan's Well, vol. 33,
p. 174.
Weapon-salve, principal ingre
dient in, moss of a dead
man's skull, 551.
WEBSTER, fine instance in his
Appias and Virginia of the
passionate use of familiar
expressions, 315; extracts,
648, 505.

Wedding, Welsh, invite to,361.
Weeds, how accounted of, 673.
Weeping Cross, 300.

Weird Sisters, query? 715.
Well, The Boiling, near Bristol,
6; St. Winifred's, 62; of
Zemzem, 112; St. Keyne's,
154; the boiling, 275; the
wishing, 406; at Brough,
422; of Cumberland have
each a Saint or Patron, 536.
Welsh Manners, 39; lances,
140; raggedness, 172; Monk-
hatred, 175; superstition of
offering an enemy, 375.
Wemme, what? 260.
WENIFREDE, ST. 58; well of,

62.

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WESLEY, JOHN, story of, and
kindly disposition, 472.
WHALLEY, Jerusalem, why so
called, 375.

Wharling in the throat, habit
of the people of Charleton
in Leicestershire, 393, 415.
Wheatears, abundance of, on
the South Downs. 407.
Whigs, Bottomless, a saying of
Johnson's, 666; Swift's re-
mark on, 667.
Whiskey and Earth, given to
infants by Scotch midwives,

476.

White Boys, Busby's name for
his favourite scholars, 239.
White-Circle, Indian supersti
tion of, 229.
WHITE, JOSEPH, wealthy mer-
chant of Poole, story of,
361.

WHITESIDE, MR. Dissenting
Minister of Yarmouth, who
destroyed himself, lines found
in the pocket of, 92.
WHITTINGTON's epitaph, 119.
WICLIFFE, the virtue of his
dust, 242.

Wigs, remarks on, 512, 582;
clever observation of Cum-

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