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,
"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.
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.
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