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Thanet, Isle of, 361; haven formed by,434.
Thelwall, his opinion regarding education,
120.

Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, 27.
Theodoret, his testimony to the conversion
of Britain by the apostles, 53.

Thistles, account of, 289; the thistle as
the emblem of Scotland, 290; the milk,
cotton, and plume thistles, 291; the
musk and carline thistles, 292; the corn
and field thistles, 293; uses of the
thistle, 294.

Thomas (the Apostle), tradition of, 70.
Thoms, the Canterbury fanatic, 256.
"Thrush's chopping-block," a, 154.
Thuggee, works on, 260, 261,
Thugs, The; or, Secret Murderers of
India,' 259, 285, 302, 332. Mode of
murdering their victims, 259; models in
the British Museum and in the Exhibi-
tion of 1851, 260; antiquity of the
system, 260; measures for its suppres-
sion, 260; statistics, 261; Captain Slee-
man's experience, 261, 285; illustration
of the secrecy of the Thugs, 262; me-
thods employed for their discovery and
obtaining evidence, 285; revelations of
Feringea, a Thug leader, 286; advan-
tages of good faith, 286; confessions of
Thugs, 287, 288, 302; booty, 303; river
Thugs, 303; exemptions, 304; religious
principles of the Thugs, 304; the goddess
Kali, 305; conversations with Thugs,
305; their regard for omens, 332; the
consecrated pickaxe, 333; Tupounee
(sacrifice of thanksgiving), 333; indif-
ference of the people, 333; difficulties
of suppressing the Thugs, 334; Thuggee
recognised and taxed, 334; immunity of
Europeans, 334; facilities offered to the
system, 334; remarks on the curse of
heathenism, 335.

"Tidal current, the great, its action on the
Kentish coast, 435.

Tiger-hunting in Malabar, 244.

Tillotson on the effects of undue severity,

240.

"Titmice, the various species of, the greater
titmouse, 133; the blue titmouse, 134;
the long-tailed titmouse, 135.
Tortoises, longevity of, 480.
Tourmentes," 297, 552.

Tower, porcelain, of Nankin, 368; leaning,
of Pisa, 369; of Pharos, 369.
Trade-winds, causes of the, 349.
Trilobites, primary, 573.
Tulip mania in Holland, the, 489.
Tulip-tree, the, 470.

Turbervile on the habits of the shrike, 158.
Unfrequented Places in British India,'
329, 371, 400.-Awlway, 330; Cochin,
330; Massulipatam, 371, 400.

Upas-tree, the, 472.

Urania speciosa, the, 474.

Valentine, Basil, 478.

Valparaiso, bay and town of, 591.

Vapour-bath, its pleasures, 171.

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Victoria regia, the, 470.

Villa Nova, Amaldus de, 478.
'Village Bells,' 11.

Viper's bugloss, notice of the, 561.
Virgil, supposed tomb of, 351.
'Visit, A, to a Bushman's Cave in the
Winterberg Mountains of South Africa.'
-Origin of the Bushmen, 12; habits and
mode of life, 13; powers of mimicry, 13;
drawings, 13, 15; method of hunting, 14;
the Bechuanas, 15; Baharootze mode of
killing the elephant, 16; the buffalo, 16;
return of Kaffirs from hunting, 16.
'Visit, A, to Mount Vesuvius at Midnight.'
-Vesuvius in tranquillity, 30; eruption
by night, 31; ascent of the mount,
32; the lava-stream, 33; the hermitage,
34.

Volvox, the, 142.

Voxa, the river, 355.

Wall of Babylon, 368; of China, 368.
Wants of the age, 279.

Warbler, the blue-throated, 117.
Waterton, Mr., on the guillemot, 7.
Wayland Smith's Cave, Berkshire, 56.
Webster, John, on the traditionary care of
the robin and wren, 61.

Wellington, duke of, at Portsmouth, 317;

equestrian statue of, 369.
Wellington tree at Dover, 2.
Wheatear, account of the, 19.
Wheel animalcule, the, 142.

Wild flowers, 22, 37, 87, 136, 161, 252, 299,
522, 561, 618.

Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, on the ancient
Egyptian linen, 191.

Wilkinson, Jemima, an impostor, 254.
Winchat, account of the, 47.

Winds, hot, in India, 401.

Wines, proportion of alcohol in, 192.
Winter, described by Spenser, 576.
Wisbeach, John de, his method of raising
funds for building a chapel at Ely, 199.
Woodlark, account of the, 300.
Woodrush, reminiscence of the, 151.
Wool, its early employment, 190.
Wordsworth, his address to the robin, 60;
to the lark, 186; on the thistle-down, 294.
Wynard Jungle, Malabar, adventures in,
235, 241, 273.

X, used as an abbreviation, 105.
'Yeoman, A, of Henry VII.'s Time,' 167.
Yew, the, of Hedsor, 470.

Zaandam and its inhabitants, 77.
Zoomagnetoscope, the, 620.

Zoophytes on the shells of oysters, 98;
natural history of, 451.

END OF VOL. III.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

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