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Navigation, proposal for opening the Isthmus
of Panama, 499

News of the week, Domestic, 425, 441, 442, 457,

475, 476, 503, 520, 544, 552, 573, 585, 601,
622, 632, 649, 685, 701, 712, 716, 729, 732,
745, 780, 793, 811, 824, 827

News of the week, Foreign, 424, 439, 455, 472,
473, 474, 486, 492, 507, 522, 554, 569, 586,
605, 621, 631, 651, 667, 672, 684, 696, 716,
727, 744, 763, 775, 797, 825

0.

Cattle, salt for, 676-diseases of, 774, 790
Cholera Morbus, account of, 452, 453, 468, 469,
488, 501, 504, 505, 508, 533, 549, 613, 633,
681, 684, 700, 721, 729-receipt for cure of, 485 Orchards, advantages derived from, 822
Columbia College, account of distribution of
medals, 622

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P.

Payne, J. H., dinner to, 753

Perkins' Steam Stove, account of, 528
Potatoes, method of culture of, 630-rules for
housing and preserving of, 743
Posts for Fences, new plan of erecting, 780
Press, writing for the, Lord Lyndhurst's opi-
nion of, 485

RAILROADS,

R.

Advocate, newspaper, discontinuance of, 421
Iron, duties on, remitted, 547

Car, self-regulating, account of, 579, 593
In France, from St. Etienne to Lyons, 531
Stockton to Darlington, 418

Manchester and Liverpool, 467, 476, 689
Cromford and Peak Forest, 497
Sirhoway, 497

Glamorganshire, 531
Hetton, 531

Brunton and Shields, 531
London and Dover, 721

Portsmouth and Roanoke, 421, 769
Central, 421, 563, 610, 692
Williamsport and Elmyra, 421, 593
Boston to Long Island Sound, 432
Generally, 433, 434, 449
Chilicothe, 435
Transportation, generally, 435, 450, 451, 465
Experiments on, by J. Randell, engineer to
Frenchtown and Newcastle Company, 449
Saratoga and Schenectady, 465, 577
Baltimore and Ohio, 450, 568, 580, 657, 660,
691, 710, 722, 754, 804, 818
Frenchtown and Newcastle, 485
Importance of, 449-for shipping purposes,

499

Brooklyn and Jamaica, 500, 689, 690
For transporting cattle in South Carolina, 50
Across the Isthmus of Panama, 514
Charleston, 515
Susquehanna, 516, 593

Chesapeake and Ohio, 517, 580

RAILROADS,

Rochester and Erie, 545
Description of motive power on,
Boston and Ordenburg, 547
Taylorsville, 548

Paterson and Hoboken, 417

Harlæm, 417, 561

546

Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown,

417

New-York and Erie, 418, 449, 481, 513

Boston and Providence, 562, 786

On the elevation of rails for, 564

Winchester (Va.) to Boston and Providence,
563

Boston and Worcester, 577

Saratoga and Fort Edward, 577

Connecticut, 577

Dansville and Rochester, 579

Petersburg and Roanoke, engine for, 579
Long Island, 593

Leicester and Swannington, 594
Mad River and Erie, 609, 621
North Carolina, 610, 629, 642
Sandusky, 610

Worcester and New-London, 610
Hudson and Mohawk, 612, 780
Camden and Amboy, 626, 640
Delaware and Hudson, 640
Advantages of, 643, 659, 674

Alleghany and Portage, 645
Rochester, 645

Baltimore and Washington, 674

Baltimore and Susquehanna, 674

West Feliciana, 693

New-York and Erie, 705

Western, 705, 770

Reviews of the week, 437, 442, 454, 470, 486,
502, 518, 534, 550, 570, 582, 598, 603, 617,
634, 647, 666, 682, 698, 713, 730, 746, 761,
778, 798,814, 831

Road Making, M'Adam's plan, 498, 513, 529,
530, 563, 595, 676, 740, 756, 773, 787, 903

S.

Steam carriages on common roads, 417, 481,
500, 556, 612, 693—Goldsmith Gurney's ex-
amination in the House of Commons upon,
482-Ogle's, 658, 721-Hancock's, 737, 738
Steamboats for rapid and shallow rivers, (Sul-
livan's,) 465-iron, 742-despatch of, 497
Steam engine, improved, 516-another, 545-
Davis & Gartner's, 548-on ascending planes
(Berrian's), 625-by locomotion, 594—ma-
chinery to be attached to, 597-James', 673
Steam cannon, Perkins', 528
Steam boilers, explosion of, 628
Silk, history of, 646-culture of, 663, 667, 091
Soils, method of adapting plants to, 791
Strawberries, on the culture of, 630

T.

Tulips, method of cultivating, 807
Tornado in the Valley of the Mississippi, 810

V.

Vine, origin, nature, and culture of, 589, 599,
597, 616, 709, 744, 806

W.
Washington, statue of, 636
West-Point Military Academy, report of board
of visitors at, 457

Wine, American, directions for making, 677
Wheels of carriages, Forrester's patent, 772
Williams, J. S., prospectus of his proposed
work on road making, 816

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