Meteors, called Jackalantern, 373. Sub COELUM. Michaelmas, festival of, Sept. 29th, See Archangel.
Goose, whimsical origin of, 515. See Martinmas. Milner, Dr. his works quoted, 598. Mind, distinct from Life and from Matter, November 7th, 617. Sub PSYCHE.
Minerva, Festival and origin of, June 19th, 302.
the Cock dedicated to her,
and why, 304. Miracles, wrought in attestation of the sanctity of the Catholic Church, Ancient and Modern, Aug. 1st, 383 -Nov. 3d, 604.
-, by the Chains of St. Peter, with Philosophical Reflections on, Aug. 1st, 383.
of the Resurrection, or Easter, 163, 170.
a Mistake cleared up re-
specting, 691. Misletoe, a Christmas decoration, 5. described by Virgil, 5. Mohammed's Flight to Mecca, 345. Molehills, used to make beds for Tulips, 401.
Monastic Orders, 700.
Months, various names for, and em- blems of, September 13th, 474, et seq.
Banks o' Doon, 51-Ariel's Song, 63-The Wish, 64-Plato's Advice, 67 - Shepherd of Edonia, 68— Where the Bee Sucks, 70—Ariel's Song, 76-When Daisies pied, 166 -Angler, 229-Spring Song, 235— To Harriet, 242-Summer Song, 243-The Cuckoo, 288-Sabrina, 308-Lammas Night, 381-Lady- bird, 386-Auld Lang Syne, 421— Burns's Westlin' Winds, 444 — A Southerly Wind, Hunting Song, 557 — Hunting Classically, 560— False Hallow, 565-The Last Rose of Summer, 581 Halloween, by Burns, 595-The Wish for Pipe and Bowl, &c. 622-The Tempest,
·Descriptive Verses, &c.— On January, 1, and the Wassail, 1, 3-Janus, from Ovid, 2-On Orion, 3—Orion's Girdle, 4—Cold and Raw, 5-Misletoe, from Virgil, 5- Lavender and Rosemary, 7 Les Rois de la Fêve, 8-St. Distaff, 9-Sheep in Snow, 9-Sliding and Skating, 10-De Puella Saltante, 12 -On Dog SPECTRE, 13-Days of Week, 14-Stars, 20—Unlucky Birds, 20-Fish, 21-St. Peter, 22. -Winter in Denmark, 22-Dark still Winter Weather, 23-St. Ag- nes, 25-Byron's Dog, 26-Winter Scenes, 27-Birds on St. Paul's Eve, 28-Wet Weather, 32-Buds, 35-Icicles, 34-Apples, 35-Bells, 36-On a Skull, 39-Primrose, by J. Mayne, 42-Candles, 45-Snow- drop, 46-Daisy, 47-Aquarius, 49 -Rule of Health, 50-Winter, 52 Primrose Bank, 54 — Vanity of Greatness, 55- Heartsease, 59- Cruelty, 59-Pattens, 59-Valen- tines, 61-Daisy, 71-Death and Sleep, 73-An Unwelcome Visitor, Ephialtes Botanicus, 81 Hounds, 83-Calendae Martis, 85- Leak, 86-Husbandry, 87-Lambs, 91-Corns, 99-Owl 101—Cunning Man, 102-Ode to Enterprize, 103 -North Pole, 106-Daffodils, 107 -Flowers Blowing for particular Days, 108 Palm, 109 March Husbandry, 113-Spider, 117. Prodigies, 119 Antares, 121- Mouse, 121Kyte, 122— Deities of the Months, 124-Bees, 130- Music, 132-Violets, 134-Spring Flowers, 135- Throstle, 136 - Quendon, 140-March, 143-April Day, 153— Pleiades, 157 — Birds, 151-Swallows, 165-April, 169-
Swallow, 171-Fools, 172-Liberty, 173-BUSY, 176-TRAY, 177- Veikhen, 17-Le Printemps, 179 -April Day, 180-Cuckoo, 182- Nightingale, 183, 194-Robigalia, 189- Spiritual Creatures, 190 Cowslips, 191-Farmyard, 196- Trees, 199-Flowers, 204-Love, 206-Maypole, 210-Martlet and Swallow, 212-May, 213-South- ern Cross, 215-Flowers, 216- Lachrymal Plants, 218-Napoleon, 219-Vernal Love, 220-Lark and Nightingale, 221-Lemuria, 225- Portrait, 226-Urion, 230-Alle- gro, 231-Progress of Vegetation, 232-Whitsuntide, 238- Retired Leisure's Delight, 247-Hermitage, 253-Seasons, 256-Flora's Clock, 261-Rosebud, 262-Carna, 267- Moneta, 268-Sheepshearing, 270- Owl, 271-Bellona, 272-Faith, Hope, and Charity, 279-Northern Bear, 281-Cuckoo, Owl, Poppy, Fortune, Minerva, Flowers, 294- Strawberries, 299- Anacreon to the Rose, 300-Spanish Lines, 301 -Legumena, 302-Jasmine, 304- Milton's Allegro, 305- Milton's Serpent, 306-Morat, 307-Ad Mi- nervam, 309-St. John's Wort, 310 -St. John's, 311-Fishes, 312- Various Birds' Nests, 313-Strange Sky, 317-Days, 319-The VIR- GIN, 321--St. Ulric, 324-De- scription of Trees, 325 Fish in Brooks, 327-Cherryclack, 329- Hay, 330-Evening, 331-Plague, 337 - Hot Weather, 340- Rose, 341-St. Swithin, 342-Wet Mid- summer, 343-Parting Kiss, 345— Signs, 346-Steamboat, 346-In- sects, 351 -St. Margaret, 352- Robert Burns, 356-Fading Rose, 357-Wet Summer, 359-Dies, 360 -Stars, 362-Sensitive Plant, 363 -Moonlight Walk by the Sea Side, 365 Enchantress, 366- Neptuni Dies, 369-View of the Alps, 371 -Amaranth, 387-Bellflower, 389 -Shelley's Church Yard, 391-In- fantine Recollections, 394-Kitty, 396-Poppy, 396-Fly, 397-City Shower, 398-Fructus, 405-VIR- GIN, 407-Crescent of Selina, 418 -Signs, 419-Vulcan, 426-Herbs, 429-Grasshopper, 431-John Bar- leycorn, 435-River Fish, 441 Paternal Reliques, 458-Wig and Skull, 471 Holy Rood, 484- Fairy Mab, 503-Hirundo, 514- Hounds, 528-Hogs, 538-Kitten,
MUSAE. Odes.-To an Unwelcome Visitor, 79-to Enterprize, 103 to a Spider, 117-to Fortune, 164 -to a Mouse, 121-to the Auld Man's Wee House, 139—to a Lady, 154-May Morning, 208-Ode to May, 213. to Selina, 226 — Ad Minervam, 309-to the VIRGIN, a hymn, 407-to Insanity, 532-to W. G. 537-Fessa Annis Feles, 540
to Mr. Gough, 573- Memory, 574 Ricco Inglese, 625-Fornham, 647-Penelope, 649.
Music and St. Cecilia, Nov. 22d, 650. -, creates Sympathies by Asso- ciation, March 20th, 132. My high Betty Martin, explained, Nov. 11th, 630. Mystifying Faculty contended for, as distinct from Ideality, Hope, and Fear, 506. Sub HECATE.
Names of the Months, 105, note, and at the head of every month. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8th, 462.
of Jesus Christ, Dec. 25th. of Mercury, May 15th, 234. of Diana, April 6th, 164. Neptune, his history and festivals, July 28th, 367.
Horace's Ode written on his Feast Day, 369.
ridiculous ceremony of his boarding Vessels, 610. Neptunalia, in old Rome, November 5th, 610.
Nereides, or Sea Nymphs, July 28th,
spread before the feet of the Bride, 509. Ocular spectra of children, Dec. 28th. distinguished from ce-
rebral spectra, 525.
resembling patterns and freckles on the wall, 748. Ode to Enterprize, by Clarke, 103. Olitory garden and sweet herbs, 298. Omens, good and evil, 509 and 545;
also Dec. 1st, 676. See Prognostics. Omer, St. Bishop of Terrouane, 464. Opalia, or feast of Ops, at Rome, August 25th, 428, 713. Organs of the Human Mind, enume- ration of, 468.
Orion, rising of, a stormy sign, 3. various risings of, noted by
lines on his belt, 4.
colour of one of his stars, 17. cosmical and heliacal rising of, see Index to Rom. Cal.
formerly called Urion, 230. Oschrophoria and Ramalia, festivals of, at Rome, October 10th, 551. Owl, superstitions respecting, 101. Sub FAUNA.
considered a bad omen, 545. Sub HECATE.
Periods of flowers, 71. Personal Identity preserved by newly formed cerebral atoms, 531. Personification of the Elements, 96. Pheasants, the killing of, begins Oc- tober 1st, 528.
Philosophy of Kant, and of the Phre- nologists, November 7th, 619. Phlebotomy at spring and fall, 587. Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, Sept. 11th, 471; and Dec. 31st. Phrenology established in England by Journal, 714. Dr. Spurzheim, December 31.
the peculiar doctrine of, considered, September 11th, 468.
Piume delle Donne, an Italian song, January 10th, 11.
Plague, inhuman policy of its treat
Planets, artificial mode of estimating the relative magnitude of, May 16th, 236. Sub URANIA.
considered as dispersive mirrors, 680.
Plants, flowering of, near to certain Saints' days, 107, et alibi. FLORA.
sympathy and antipathy of,
hoots before change of weather, Pleiades, table of the meridian pas-
--, setting of, April 2d, 156. ➡, rising of, May 2d, 212. See Hyades. Also see 254. Plough Monday, 13.
Plums, enumeration of, 405. Pole of the Earth, 106.
Pole Star, its place and duplicity,
Quakers affect to imitate the early Christians, 355.
Queen Elizabeth, her character no longer mistaken, 641.
Mab, poetical history of, 503. Mary of Scotland, 421. of Heaven adored by the Jewish women, 358.
imaginary identifi-
cation of with Ceres, 358.
Rain, monthly average of, 116.
prognostics of, 28, 89, 92, 103, 310, 337, 342, 544.
Raven, a bird of evil omen, 545, 549, 550, &c. Sub HECATE. Refraction and Reflection, on the va rieties of, 679.
Regifugium of the Roman Calendar,
Religious Rites and Ceremonies de- fended, 75.
Remy, St. or Remigius, 527. Ringing. See Bells.
Rings, old custom of hallowing on Good Friday, 111.
about the Moon. See Halo. made by Fairies. See Fairy
Rings. Rising of Sun and Moon, new tables for, 377.
Robigalia, strange ceremonies of, in ancient Rome, 189.
Robin Redbreast, its familiar habits, 641. Sub FAUNA.
ROMAN CALENDAR passim sub singulis diebus.
-, explanation of, 273.
Sub TEMPUS. Roodloft in ancient churches, 483. Rosary, festival of, October 1st, 527.
for particular places, 518.
for certain diseases, 519. St. John's Wort, lines on, 310. Satellites of the Planets, 361. Saturn, mythological history of, Sep- tember 25th, 503.
his children and the Holy Innocents, December 28th.
his Satellites, 361. composition of the light of,
680. Saturnalia, December 17th, 711. Suxon Gods give names to the days of the week, 14.
Scarlet Lychnis, June 20th, 305. Scent, a criterion of good, 563. Scorpion, bright star in, 17.
rises, March 16th, 120. Sermon on the Mount, best detailed by St. Matthew, 495.
Serpents, Suake, Viper, and Slow- worm, 306.
Servetus burnt at Geneva, October 27th, 588.
Seva and Vishnu, 701.
Shamrock, why worn by the Irish, 122. Sheepshearing, and lines on, 269. Sub PALES.
Shrovetide and its customs, 58. Shepherd of Edonia, 68. Signs of Rain, February 3d and 5th, March Sd, 5th, and 9th, 88, 93, 104. Swallows flying low, ibid. 88, et seq.; Crows croaking or washing, ibid.; Swans flying against the wind, Wildfowl washing and diving, the activity of Ants, com- ing forth of Toads and Frogs, quackling of Ducks, braying of Asses, Hogs destroying the Corn- stalks, Asses shaking their ears, &c.; for all the above, see Prog- nostics.
from the Barometer,
&c. July 12th. Signs of the Zodiac and of the Planets, &c. 4, 5, and 6.
Signpole at Barbers' shops, 415. Signposts, August 18th and 20th, 411
Silence, Goddess of, called Tacita, | Stephen's Day, St. Goose pies on, 741. Still Weather, phenomena of, 663.
Simon, St. and St. Jude's Day, reck- oned rainy, 588.
ginally marked by a ship, 589. Smoking, healthiness of, Feb. 5th, 49. different sorts of pipes
History of, and Verses on, November 8th, 621. Snow, a fall of, described by Thom- son the Poet, January 9th, 10. Snowdrop, February 2d, 46; and March 10th, 107.
Solar System, some of the elements of, 360. Sub URANIA. Solstitial Flora, 333. Songs. See Musae.
Sorcery, Magic, and Necromancy, 509. Soul, on the existence of, November 2d and 7th.
Sounds heard a great way before rain, 663.
of aural illusion, 660.
of distant bells, 663.
Southern Cross, May 3d, 214; see also September 14th, 481. lines on, 215.
motion of stars, nonexist-
ence of, 698. Sparrows, great utility of in gardens, 250. Sub FAUNA.
Spectre, Verses on a dog named, 13. Spectres of the dead, 65. See Appa- ritions.
physically explained, 524-
526. Spiders indicate rain, 89. Spring, on the period so called, 96, under the word COELUM. Squirrels hunted on St. Andrew's Day, 674.
Star of Arcady, noticed by Milton,
Verses on by White, 23. Suddenwood, and other sweet shrubs, 590. Sub Ors.
Suicide, 675. Sub FURIA. Summanalia at Rome, 304. Summer, of the period so called, 282. Sub TEMPUS.
Sundials which adjust themselves by magnetism, 676. Sunflower, description of, 510. Sub FLORA.
varieties of, 511. Superstitions, reflections on, 75. Swallows return in Spring, April 15th,
Swine and Swineherds of New Forest, 538. Sub PALES.
Table for finding the name of every day in every year, one day only being given, February 29th, 83.
for finding the time of rising of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, for every Latitude, July 31st, 377. Tables of Weather, February 25th, 77; August 26th and 31st, 450 and 443. of Geographical Longitudes and Latitudes, 581.
Tarquin, on the flight of, 80. Tears of Old May Day, a poem, 210. Temperature and Prestan Average, for
January and February, 77. TEMPUS, or Articles on Division of Time, 263; and September 13th, 473; 22d, 497.
Tendon of the forefinger divided and healed again, 104. Terminalia, a feast of the Romans, 69. Throstle and Blackbird compared, 137. Thunderbolts were really meteorolites,
436. Thunderstorms, extensive range of, 371. Sub COELUM.
violent examples of,
Sub COELUM. Tide, Table of the, July 28th, 370. Time, mathematical observations on the application of, 263.
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