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XIII.</h4> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<h5>LONDON<br /> +PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND.</h5> +<h6><i>(Near Somerset House.)</i></h6> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<center>1829</center> + + + <hr class="full" /> + + <div class="figure" style="width:70%;"> + <a href="images/378-001.jpg"><img width = "100%" src="images/378-001.jpg" + alt="PORTRAIT of the late SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, Bart." /></a> + </div> + + <h4>PORTRAIT of the late SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, Bart.</h4> + + <hr /> + +<h3>PREFACE.</h3> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p>We begin to think that a long Preface in this season of <i>ennui</i> would be +almost as tiresome as tragedy in warm weather, and much more so than the +trite three-line Prologue in Hamlet. Our materials are collected from all +quarters, with but little of our own; so that we might praise all the +authors without the charge of uncommon vanity; but panegyric savours much +of the poppy, and we must use it accordingly.</p> + +<p>Our thanks are first due to such Subscribers as have, by personal +observation and research, enabled us to throw a light on certain obsolete +customs or portions of our domestic history; for these contributions form +a prominent feature of the Correspondence of THE MIRROR; it being our +object, in this department, to gather facts rather than to draw only upon +the invention of our friends. In support of this system we could select +many specimens from the Correspondence of the present volume, the +interest of which is, we hope, be equal to any of its predecessors.</p> + +<p>The <i>Selector</i> will be found to contain many valuable extracts from New +and Costly Works, in almost every class of literature; and the piquancy +of the <i>Notes of a Reader</i> may be turned to as a convenient little +treasury, into which readers of all tastes may dip with pleasure and +advantage.</p> + +<p>The <i>Sketch Book</i> contains rather an unusual number of Narratives, some +of them of extraordinary interest, and written in the best style of the +best authors.</p> + +<p>The <i>Spirit of Discovery</i> will be considered characteristic of our times, +by illustrating the real economy of science in its application to the +conveniences of every-day life. As a collateral branch of this division +is <i>The Naturalist</i>, under which head we have endeavoured to identify THE +MIRROR with Zoology, as one of the most popular studies of the day.</p> + +<p>The <i>Spirit of the Public Journals</i> breathes not a few of the sweetest +and most recent poetical compositions from the pens of celebrated authors, +some of whose names are passports to high excellence.</p> + + +<p>The <i>Engravings</i> have, probably, been criticised upon first impression; +so that we can only hope they have merited the applause of our +Subscribers. We may be permitted to remark that some of the illustrations +relate to scenes and subjects of no ordinary attraction in Antiquarian +Remains, and Architectural Improvements of yesterday; a few of these have +been executed at a considerable cost to the Proprietor; for which extra +exertion he has been more than requited by the increased demand.</p> + +<p>Several current <i>Novelties</i> will be found described at length in this +volume—as the circumstantial and accurate accounts of the Colosseum—and +the New Swan River Settlement, the last of which is illustrated with an +Engraved Chart.</p> + +<p>Strenuous as have been our exertions for past patronage, we shall not +relax in the ensuing volume. An entirely new Type has been prepared for +this purpose, and we feel confident that we shall be enabled to keep pace +with the increased typographical beauty of the MIRROR, as well as with +the improved spirit of its Engravings.</p> + +<p>June 27, 1829.</p> + + + + + <hr class="full" /> + + +<h3>LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.</h3> + + +<h4>VOL. XIII.</h4> + + +<p><i>PORTRAIT of the late SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, Bart.</i></p> + + +<p>Bruce Castle, Tottenham.</p> + +<p>Old Elephant, Fenchurch Street.</p> + +<p>Macclesfield Bridge, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Rupert's Palace, Barbican.</p> + +<p>Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Grove House, ditto.</p> + +<p>Colosseum, Exterior, ditto.</p> + +<p>Marquess of Hertford's Villa, ditto.</p> + +<p>Doric Villa, ditto.</p> + +<p>Colosseum, Interior, ditto.</p> + +<p>Kirkstall Abbey.</p> + +<p>Warwick Castle.</p> + +<p>Old Covent Garden Market.</p> + +<p>York Terrace, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Snow Flakes, Magnified.</p> + +<p>Rugby School.</p> + +<p>Miners of Derbyshire.</p> + +<p>Fortune Playhouse, Barbican.</p> + +<p>Epsom New Race Stand.</p> + +<p>Old Charing Cross.</p> + +<p>Exeter 'Change, Strand.</p> + +<p>Hyde Park Grand Entrance.</p> + +<p>Talipot Tree.</p> + +<p>Glowworm.</p> + +<p>Deathwatch, Magnified.</p> + +<p>Chester Terrace, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Guy's Cliff.</p> + +<p>Roman Altar.</p> + +<p>Gower's Tomb.</p> + +<p>Hirlas Horn.</p> + +<p>Old Somerset House.</p> + +<p>Harrow School.</p> + +<p>Sussex Place, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Clarendon House, Piccadilly.</p> + +<p>Relic of John Buryan.</p> + +<p>Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Chart of the Swan River Settlement.</p> + +<p>Laleham Park, the Residence of the Young Queen of Portugal.</p> + +<p>Holland House, Kensington.</p> + +<p>Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park.</p> + +<p>Residence of T. Campbell, Esq.</p> + +<p>Labyrinth at Versailles.</p> + + + + <hr class="full" /> +<hr class="short" /> + + +<h3>MEMOIR OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.</h3> + + +<p>The present may be regarded as a chemical age; for so extensive, rapid, +and important have been the late acquisitions in the science of chemistry, +that we may almost claim it as the exclusive discovery of our own times. +The popularity and high estimation in which it is held may be ascribed to +three causes: 1. The satisfaction which is afforded by its results. +2. Its utility in all the arts of life. 3. The little previous +preparation which an entrance on its study requires. To these may be +added, the new interest conferred upon the science by the discoveries of +Black, Priestly, and Lavoisier, which had already introduced into +chemical science the long-neglected requisites of close investigation and +logical deduction; but it was reserved for Sir HUMPHRY DAVY to +demonstrate the vast superiority of modern principles, by the most +brilliant career of discovery, which, since the days of Newton, have +graced the annals of science.</p> + +<p>Sir Humphry Davy was born December 17, 1779, at Penzance, in Cornwall. +His family was ancient, and above the middle class; his paternal great +grandfather had considerable landed property in the parish of Budgwin, +and his father possessed a small paternal estate opposite St. Michael's +Mount, called Farfal, on which he died in 1795, after having injured his +fortune by expending considerable sums in attempting agricultural +improvements. Sir Humphry received the first rudiments of his education +at the grammar-schools of Penzance and Truro: at the former place, he +resided with Mr. John Tomkin, surgeon, a benevolent and intelligent man, +who had been intimately connected with his maternal grandfather, and +treated him with a degree of kindness little less than paternal. His +genius was originally inclined to poetry; and there are many natives of +Penzance who remember his poems and verses, written at the early age of +nine years. He cultivated this bias till his fifteenth year, when he +became the pupil of Mr. (since Dr.) Borlase, of Penzance, an ingenious +surgeon, intending to prepare himself for graduating as a physician at +Edinburgh. As a proof of his uncommon mind, at this early age, it is +worthy of mention, that Mr. Davy laid down for himself a plan of +education, which embraced the circle of the sciences. By his eighteenth +year he had acquired the rudiments of botany, anatomy, and physiology, +the simpler mathematics, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and chemistry. +But chemistry soon arrested his whole attention. Having made some +experiments on the air disengaged by sea-weeds from the water of the +ocean, which convinced him that these vegetables performed the same part +in purifying the air dissolved in water which land-vegetables act in the +atmosphere; he communicated them to Dr. Beddoes, who had at that time +circulated proposals for publishing a journal of philosophical +contributions from the West of England. This produced a correspondence +between Dr. Beddoes and Mr. Davy, in which the Doctor proposed, that +Mr. Davy, who was at this time only nineteen years of age, should suspend +his plan of going to Edinburgh, and take a part in experiments which were +then about to be instituted at Bristol, for investigating the medical +powers of factitious airs; to this proposal Mr. Davy consented, on +condition that he should have the uncontrolled superintendence of the +expements. About this time he became acquainted with Davies Gilbert, Esq. +M.P. a gentleman of high scientific attainments, (now President of the +Royal Society), with whom he formed a friendship which has always +continued; and to Mr. Gilbert's judicious advice may be attributed +Mr. Davy's adoption of and perseverance in the study of chemistry. With +Dr. Beddoes, Mr. Davy resided for a considerable time, and was constantly +occupied in new chemical investigations. Here, he discovered the +respirability of nitrous oxide, and made a number of laborious +experiments on gaseous bodies, which he afterwards published in +"Researches Chemical and Philosophical," a work that was universally well +received by the chemical world, and created a high reputation for its +author, at that time only twenty-one years of age. This led to his +introduction to Count Rumford, and to his being elected Professor of +Chemistry to the Royal Institution in Albemarle-street. On obtaining this +appointment Mr. Davy gave up all his views of the medical profession, and +devoted himself entirely to chemistry.</p> + +<p>Mr. Davy's first experiments as Professor of Chemistry in the Royal +Institution, were made on the substance employed in the process of +tanning, with others to which similar properties were ascribed, in +consequence of the discovery made by M. Seguier, of Paris, of the +peculiar vegetable matter, now called tannin. He was, during the same +period, frequently occupied in experiments on galvanism.</p> + +<p>To the agriculturist, chemistry is of the first consideration. The +dependence of agriculture upon chemical causes had been previously +noticed, but it was first completely demonstrated in a course of lectures +before the Board of Agriculture, which Mr. Davy commenced in the year +1802, and continued for ten years. This series of lectures contained much +popular and practical information, and belongs to the most useful of Mr. +Davy's scientific labours; for the application of chemistry to +agriculture is one of its most important results; and so rapid were the +discoveries of the author, that in preparing these discourses for +publication, a few years afterwards, he was under the necessity of making +several alterations, to adapt them to the improved state of chemical +knowledge, which his own labours had, in that short time, produced.</p> + +<p>In 1803, he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1805, a +member of the Royal Irish Academy. He now enjoyed the friendship of most +of the distinguished literary men and philosophers of the metropolis, and +enumerated among his intimate friends, Sir Joseph Banks, Cavendish, +Hatchett, Wollaston, Children, Tennant, and other eminent men. At the +same time he corresponded with the principal chemists of every part of +Europe. In 1806, he was appointed to deliver, before the Royal Society, +the Bakerian lecture, in which he displayed some very interesting new +agencies of electricity, by means of the celebrated galvanic apparatus +<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> +Soon afterwards, he made one of the most brilliant discoveries of modern +times, in the decomposition of two fixed alkalies, which, in direct +refutation of the hypothesis previously adopted, were found to consist of +a peculiar metallic base united with a large quantity of oxygen. These +alkalies were potash and soda, and the metals thus discovered were called +potassium and sodium, Mr. Davy was equally successful in the application +of galvanism to the decomposition of the earths. About this time he +became Secretary of the Royal Society. In 1808, Mr. Davy received a prize +from the French Institute. During the greater part of 1810, he was +employed on the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygen; and towards +the close of the same year, he delivered a course of lectures before the +Dublin Society, and received from Trinity College, Dublin, the honorary +degree of LL. D.</p> + +<p>In the year 1812, Mr. Davy married his amiable lady, then Mrs. Apreece, +widow of Shuckburgh Ashby Apreece, Esq. and daughter and heiress of the +late Charles Kerr, of Kelso, Esq. By his union with this lady, Mr. Davy +acquired not only a considerable fortune, but the inestimable treasure of +an affectionate and exemplary wife, and a congenial friend and companion, +capable of appreciating his character and attainments. A few days +previously to his marriage, he received the honour of knighthood from his +Majesty, then Prince Regent, being the first person on whom he conferred +that dignity.</p> + +<p>We now arrive at the most important result of Sir Humphry Davy's labours, +viz. the invention of the SAFETY-LAMP for coal mines, which has been +generally and successfully adopted throughout Europe. This invention has +been the means of preserving many valuable lives, and preventing horrible +mutilations, more terrible even than death; and were this Sir Humphry +Davy's only invention, it would secure him an immortality in the annals +of civilization and science. The general principle of this discovery may +be described as follows:</p> + +<p>"The frequency of accidents, arising from the explosion of the fire-damp, +or inflammable gas of the coal mines, mixed with atmospherical air, +occasioned the formation of a committee at Sunderland, for the purpose of +investigating the causes of these calamities, and of endeavouring to +discover and apply a preventive. Sir Humphry received an invitation, in +1815, from Dr. Gray, one of the members of the committee; in consequence +of which he went to the North of England, and visiting some of the +principal collieries in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, soon convinced +himself that no improvement could be made in the mode of ventilation, but +that the desired preventive must be sought in a new method of lighting +the mines, free from danger, and which, by indicating the state of the +air in the part of the mine where inflammable air was disengaged, so as +to render the atmosphere explosive, should oblige the miners to retire +till the workings were properly cleared. The common means then employed +for lighting the dangerous part of the mines consisted of a steel wheel +revolving in contact with flint, and affording a succession of sparks: +but this apparatus always required a person to work it, and was not +entirely free from danger. The fire-damp was known to be light +carburetted hydrogen gas; but its relations to combustion had not been +examined. It is chiefly produced from what are called blowers or fissures +in the broken strata, near dykes. Sir Humphry made various experiments on +its combustibility and explosive nature; and discovered, that the +fire-damp requires a very strong heat for its inflammation; that azote and +carbonic acid, even in very small proportions, diminished the velocity of +the inflammation; that mixtures of the gas would not explode in metallic +canals or troughs, where their diameter was less than one-seventh of an +inch, and their depth considerable in proportion to their diameter; and +that explosions could not be made to pass through such canals, or through +very fine wire sieves, or wire gauze. The consideration of these facts +led Sir Humphry to adopt a lamp, in which the flame, by being supplied +with only a limited quantity of air should produce such a quantity of +azote and carbonic acid as to prevent the explosion of the fire-damp, and +which, by the nature of its apertures for giving admittance and egress to +the air, should be rendered incapable of communicating any explosion to +the external air. These requisites were found to be afforded by air-tight +lanterns, of various constructions, supplied with air from tubes or +canals of small diameter, or from apertures covered with wire-gauze, +placed below the flame, through which explosions cannot be communicated; +and having a chimney at the upper part, for carrying off the foul air. +Sir Humphry soon afterwards found that a constant flame might be kept up +from the explosive mixture issuing from the apertures of a wire-gauze +sieve. He introduced a very small lamp in a cylinder, made of wire-gauze, +having six thousand four hundred apertures in the square inch. He closed +all apertures except those of the gauze, and introduced the lamp, burning +brightly within the cylinder, into a large jar, containing several quarts +of the most explosive mixture of gas from the distillation of coal and +air; the flame of the wick immediately disappeared, or rather was lost, +for the whole of the interior of the cylinder became filled with a feeble +but steady flame of a green colour, which burnt for some minutes, till it +had entirely destroyed the explosive power of the atmosphere. This +discovery led to a most important improvement in the lamp, divested the +fire-damp of all its terrors, and applied its powers, formerly so +destructive, to the production of a useful light. Some minor +improvements, originating in Sir Humphry's researches into the nature of +flame, were afterwards effected. Experiments of the most satisfactory +nature were speedily made, and the invention was soon generally adopted. +Some attempts were made to dispute the honour of this discovery with its +author, but his claims were confirmed by the investigations of the first +philosophers of the age."<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>—The coal owners of the Tyne and Wear +evinced their sense of the benefits resulting from this invention, by +presenting Sir Humphry with a handsome service of plate worth nearly two +thousand pounds, at a public dinner at Newcastle, October 11, 1817.</p> + +<p>In 1813, Sir Humphry was elected a corresponding member of the Institute +of France, and vice-president of the Royal Institution; in 1817, one of +the eight associates of the Royal Academy; in 1818 created a baronet, and +during the last ten years he has been elected a member of most of the +learned bodies of Europe.</p> + +<p>We could occupy many pages with the interesting details of Sir Humphry +Davy's travels in different parts of Europe for scientific purposes, +particularly to investigate the causes of volcanic phenomena, to instruct +the miners of the coal districts in the application of his safety-lamp, +and to examine the state of the Herculaneum manuscripts and to illustrate +the remains of the chemical arts of the ancients. He analyzed the colours +used in painting by the ancient Greek and Roman artists. His experiments +were chiefly made on the paintings in the baths of Titus, the ruins +called the baths of Livia, in the remains of other palaces and baths of +ancient Rome, and in the ruins of Pompeii. By the kindness of his friend +Canova, who was charged with the care of the works connected with ancient +art in Rome, he was enabled to select with his own hands specimens of the +different pigments, that had been formed in vases discovered in the +excavations, which had been lately made beneath the ruins of the palace +of Titus, and to compare them with the colours fixed on the walls, or +detached in fragments of stucco. The results of all these researches were +published in the Transactions of the Royal Society for 1815, and are +extremely interesting. The concluding observations, in which he impresses +on artists the superior importance of permanency to brilliancy in the +colours used in painting, are especially worthy the attention of artists. +On his examination of the Herculaneum manuscripts, at Naples, in 1818-19, +he was of opinion they had not been acted upon by fire, so as to be +completely carbonized, but that their leaves were cemented together by a +substance formed during the fermentation and chemical change of ages. He +invented a composition for the solution of this substance, but he could +not discover more than 100 out of 1,265 manuscripts, which presented any +probability of success.</p> + +<p>Sir Humphry returned to England in 1820, and in the same year his +respected friend, Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, died. +Several discussions took place respecting a proper successor, when +individuals of high and even very exalted rank were named as candidates. +But science, very properly in this case, superseded rank. Amongst the +philosophers whose labours had enriched the Transactions of the Royal +Society, two were most generally adverted to, Sir Humphry Davy and Dr. +Wollaston; but Dr. Wollaston very modestly declined being a candidate +after his friend had been nominated, and received from the council of the +Society the unanimous compliment of being placed in the chair of the +Royal Society, till the election by the body in November. +<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> + A trifling +opposition was made to Sir Humphry Davy's election, by some unknown +persons, who proposed Lord Colchester, but Sir Humphry was placed in the +chair by a majority of 200 to 13. For this honour no one could be more +completely qualified. Sir Humphry retained his seat as President till the +year 1827, when, in consequence of procrastinated ill health, in great +measure brought on by injuries occasioned to his constitution by +scientific experiments, he was induced, by medical advice, to retire to +the continent. He accordingly resigned his seat as President of the Royal +Society, the chair being filled, <i>pro tem</i>, by Davies Gilbert, Esq. who, +at the Anniversary Meeting, Nov. 30, 1827, was unanimously elected +President.</p> + +<p>Since his retirement, Sir Humphry Davy resided principally at Rome, where +a short time ago he had an alarming attack of a paralytic nature, but +from which he was apparently, though slowly, recovering. Lady Davy, who +had been detained in England by her own ill health, joined Sir Humphry, +at Rome, on hearing of his alarming state. Thence he travelled by easy +stages to Geneva, without feeling any particular inconvenience, and +without any circumstances which denoted the approach of dissolution: but +on Friday, May 29, 1829, the illustrious philosopher closed his mortal +career, in the fifty-first year of his age, having only reached Geneva on +the day previous. Lady Davy had the gratification of contributing, by +her soothing care, to the comfort of his last days during their stay in +Italy, and on their journey to Geneva, where they intended to pass the +summer, and hoped to have derived benefit from the eminent practitioners +of that city. Sir Humphry had also been joined by his brother, Dr. John +Davy, physician to the forces in Malta, whence he came on receiving the +intelligence of his brother's danger. But all human art and skill were +of no avail. The last and fatal attack took place at half-past two on +Friday morning, and the pulse ceased to beat shortly after. The event was +no sooner known, than the afflicted widow received the condolence and +affectionate offer of services from the most distinguished individuals of +Geneva; amongst whom we must mention M. A. de Condolle, the eminent +botanist, and M. Sismondi, the historian, both equally beloved for their +amiable character, as illustrious throughout Europe for their works. M. +de Condolle obligingly took charge of all the details of the interment of +his illustrious colleague; and the governor of the Canton, the Academy of +Geneva, the Consistory of the Geneva Church, the Society of Arts and of +Natural Philosophy and History, together with nearly all the English +resident there, accompanied the remains to the burial-ground, where the +English service was performed by the Rev. Mr. John Magers of Queen's +College, and the Rev. Mr. Burgess. The members of the Academy, in the +absence of any relation of the deceased, took their place in the funeral +procession; and the invitations to the syndicate, and to the learned +bodies who accompanied it, were made by that body in the same character. +The whole was conducted with much appropriate order and decency, and +whilst every attention and respect were paid to the memory of the +deceased, nothing was attempted beyond the unostentatious simplicity +which the deceased had frequently declared to be his wish, whenever his +mortal remains should be consigned to their last home; and which in +accordance to that wish, had been expressly enjoined to her kind friends +by the afflicted widow. In the procession, which followed the corporate +bodies and the countrymen of the deceased, were many of the most eminent +manufacturers of Geneva, and a large body of mechanics, who were anxious +to pay this tribute of regard and gratitude to one whom they deservedly +looked upon as a great benefactor to the arts, and promoter of sciences, +by the application of which they earn their livelihood.<a id="footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a></p> + +<p>During his retirement on the Continent, Sir Humphry continued to +communicate the splendid results of his labours to the Royal Society, +and at the anniversary meeting of the year 1827, the royal medal was +awarded to him for a series of brilliant discoveries developing the +relation between electricity and chemistry.<a id="footnotetag5" name="footnotetag5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>5</sup></a> Upon this interesting +occasion, Mr. Davies Gilbert spoke at some length, commencing as +follows: "It is with feelings most gratifying to myself that I now +approach to the award of a royal medal to Sir Humphry Davy; and I esteem +it a most fortunate occurrence, that this award should have taken place +during the short period of my having to discharge the duties attached to +the office of president; having witnessed the whole progress of Sir +Humphry Davy's advancement in science and in reputation, from his first +attempts in his native town to vary some of Dr. Priestly's experiments +on the extraction of oxygen from marine vegetables to the point of +eminence which we all know him to have reached. It is not necessary for +me more than to advert to his discovery of nitrous oxyde; to his +investigation of the action of light on gases; on the nature of heat; to +his successful discrimination of proximate vegetable elements; nor to +his most scientific, ingenious, and useful invention, the +safety-lamp,—an invention reasoned out from its principles, with all +the accuracy and precision of mathematical deduction."</p> + +<p>The course of Sir Humphry Davy to the highest rank as a chemical +philosopher, was, after his appointment at the Royal Institution, rapid +and brilliant; and if he was previously aided by as few of the advantages +of fortune as any man living, he had then at his disposal whatever his +industry and talents chose to command. We have given but a hasty outline +of his labours; but it is possible that he may have left behind him much, +not yet made public, for which, science will be still further indebted to +him. His works, papers, and letters are numerous, and the greatest +portion of them are contained in the Transactions of the Royal Society. +One of the most popular and interesting of his recent papers is that on +the <i>Phenomena of Volcanoes</i>. This contains a series of investigations of +Vesuvius, made by the author during a residence at Naples in 1819-20, and +bearing upon a previous hypothesis, "that metals of the alkalies and +earth might exist in the interior of the globe, and on being exposed to +the action of air and water, give rise to volcanic fires, and to the +production of lavas, by the slow cooling of which basaltic and other +crystalline rocks might subsequently be formed." We have not space for +the details of these investigations, interesting as they would prove to +an unscientific reader; but we give an abstract of the result of Sir +Humphry's observations:</p> + +<p>"The phenomena observed by the author afforded a sufficient refutation of +all the ancient hypotheses, in which volcanic fires were ascribed to such +chemical causes as the combustion of mineral coal, or the action of +sulphur upon iron; and are perfectly consistent with the supposition of +their depending upon the oxidation of the metals of the earths upon an +extensive scale, in immense subterranean cavities, to which water or +atmospheric air may occasionally have access. The subterranean thunder +heard at great distances under Vesuvius, prior to an eruption, indicates +the vast extent of these cavities; and the existence of a subterranean +communication between the Solfattara and Vesuvius, is established by the +fact that whenever the latter is in an active state, the former is +comparatively tranquil. In confirmation of these views, the author +remarks, that almost all the volcanoes of considerable magnitude in the +old world, are in the vicinity of the sea; and in those where the sea is +more distant, as in the volcanoes of South America, the water may be +supplied from great subterranean lakes; for Humboldt states that some of +them throw up quantities of fish. The author acknowledges, however, that +the hypothesis of the nucleus of the globe being composed of matter +liquefied by heat, offers a still more simple solution of the phenomena +of volcanic fires."<a id="footnotetag6" name="footnotetag6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>6</sup></a></p> + +<p>We have hitherto spoken of Sir Humphry Davy as a philosopher. He was, +however, in every respect, an accomplished scholar, and was well +acquainted with foreign languages. He always retained a strong taste for +literary pleasures; and when his continued illness retarded his +scientific pursuits, he made literature his recreation. In this manner he +wrote <i>Salmonia: or Days of Fly-fishing</i>, in a series of conversations, +we gather from the Preface:—"These pages formed the occupation of the +Author during several months of severe and dangerous illness, when he was +wholly incapable of attending to more useful studies, or of following +more serious pursuits. They formed his amusement in many hours, which +otherwise would have been unoccupied and tedious." "The conversational +and discursive style were chosen as best suited to the state of the +health of the author, who was incapable of considerable efforts and long +continued exertion." The volume is dedicated to Dr. Babington, "in +remembrance of some delightful days passed in his society, and in +gratitude for an uninterrupted friendship of quarter of a century:" and +the likeness of one of the characters in the conversations to that +estimable physician abovenamed, has been considered well drawn, and +easily recognisable by those who enjoy his acquaintance.</p> + +<p>The philosophical works of Sir Humphry Davy are written in a clear and +perspicuous style, by which means he has contributed more to the +diffusion of scientific knowledge than any other writer of his time. His +three principal works, "Chemical and Philosophical Researches," "Elements +of Chemical Philosophy," and "Elements of Agricultural Chemistry," are in +a popular and familiar style, and the two last are excellently adapted +for elementary study. His numerous pamphlets and contributions to the +Transactions of the Royal Society have the same rare merit of conveying +experimental knowledge in the most attractive form, and thus reducing +abstract theory to the practice and purposes of life and society. The +results of his investigations and experiments were not therefore pent up +in the laboratory or lecture-room where they were made, but by this +valuable mode of communication, they have realized what ought to be the +highest aim of science,—the improvement of the condition and comforts of +every class of his fellow-creatures. Thus, beautiful theories were +illustrated by inventions of immediate utility, as in the safety-lamp for +mitigating the dangers to which miners are exposed in their labours, and +the application of a newly-discovered principle in preserving the life of +the adventurous mariner. Yet splendid as were Sir Humphry's talents, and +important as have been their application, he received the honours and +homage of the scientific world with that becoming modesty which +universally characterizes great genius.</p> + +<p>Apart from the scientific value of Sir Humphry's labours and researches, +they are pervaded by a tone and temper, and an enthusiastic love of +nature which are as admirably expressed as their influence is excellent. +In proof of this feeling we could almost from memory, quote many +passages from his works. Thus, speaking of the divine <i>Study of Nature</i>, +he has the following reflective truths:—"If we look with wonder upon +the great remains of human works, such as the columns of Palmyra, broken +in the midst of the desert, the temples of Paestum, beautiful in the +decay of twenty centuries, or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture +in the Acropolis of Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the +genius of artists, and power and riches of nations now past away; with +how much deeper feeling of admiration must we consider those grand +monuments of Nature, which mark the revolutions of the globe; continents +broken into islands; one land produced, another destroyed; the bottom of +the ocean become a fertile soil; whole races of animals extinct; and the +bones and exuviae of one class, covered with the remains of another, and +upon the graves of past generations—the marble or rocky tomb, as it +were, of a former animated world—new generations rising, and order and +harmony established, and a system of life and beauty produced, as it +were out of chaos and death; proving the infinite power, wisdom, and +goodness, of the GREAT CAUSE OF ALL BEING!" Here we cannot trace any +co-mixture of science and scepticism, and in vain shall we look for the +spawn of infidel doctrine. The same excellent feeling breathes +throughout <i>Salmonia</i>, one of the most delightful labours of leisure we +have ever seen. Not a few of the most beautiful phenomena of Nature are +here lucidly explained, yet the pages have none of the varnish of +philosophical unbelief or finite reasoning. "In my opinion," says one of +the characters in the Dialogue, (to be identified as the author,) +"profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of +human reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally +strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees changes +of causes and effects, so wonderfully and strangely linked together, +that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of +any two series of events being independent of each other; and in +science, so many natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to +light,—such as the fall of stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the +disarming a thundercloud by a metallic point, the production of fire +from ice by a metal white as silver, and referring certain laws of +motions of the sea to the moon,—that the physical inquirer is seldom +disposed to assert, confidently, on any abstruse subjects belonging to +the order of natural things, and still less so on those relating to the +more mysterious relations of moral events and intellectual natures."<a id="footnotetag7" name="footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7"><sup>7</sup></a></p> + +<p>Many other passages in <i>Salmonia</i> gush forth with great force and beauty, +and sometimes soar into sublime truths. Thus says the eloquent author:</p> + +<p>"A full and clear river is, in my opinion, the most poetical object in +nature. Pliny has, as well as I recollect, compared a river to human life. +I have never read the passage in his works, but I have been a hundred +times struck with the analogy, particularly amidst mountain scenery. The +river, small and clear in its origin, gushes forth from rocks, falls into +deep glens, and wantons and meanders through a wild and picturesque +country, nourishing only the uncultivated tree or flower by its dew or +spray. In this, its state of infancy and youth, it may be compared to the +human mind in which fancy and strength of imagination are predominant—it +is more beautiful than useful. When the different rills or torrents join, +and descend into the plain, it becomes slow and stately in its motions; +it is applied to move machinery, to irrigate meadows, and to bear upon +its bosom the stately barge;—in this mature state, it is deep, strong, +and useful. As it flows on towards the sea, it loses its force and its +motion, and at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the mighty +abyss of waters."</p> + +<p>"I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, +wit, or fancy: but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I +believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to +every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness—creates +new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the +destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life +even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: +makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to +paradise; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the +most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, +the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic +view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!"</p> + +<p>Few of those whose fame and fortune are their own creation, enjoy, as did +Sir Humphry Davy, in the meridian of life, the enviable consciousness of +general esteem and respect, and the certainty of a distinguished place in +history, among the illustrious names of their country. "A great light has +gone out,"—short but brilliant has been his career; yet let us hope he +has but exchanged his worldly fame for unearthly immortality, to shine +amidst the never-dying lights of true glory.</p> + + + <hr class="full" /> + <hr class="full" /> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag1"> (return)</a> +This apparatus is of immense power, and consists of 200 + separate parts, each part composed of ten double plates, and each + plate containing 32 square inches. The whole number of double plates + is 2,000, and the whole surface 126,000 square inches.</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag2"> (return)</a> +Memoir—New Monthly Magazine, Vol. I. Mr. Dillon has lately invented + an <i>Improved Safety Lamp</i>, an Engraving of which will be found at + page 137, Vol. XII. of the MIRROR.</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag3"> (return)</a> +It deserves notice, that two of the most illustrious philosophers of + our times, Sir H. Davy and Dr. Wollaston, have died within the + present year.</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote4" name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag4"> (return)</a> +Extract of a Letter from Geneva, dated June 1, 1829—<i>Times</i>.</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote5" name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag5"> (return)</a> +These experiments, the last which engaged Sir Humphry Davy's + attention to any extent, were on the application of electrical + combinations, for the purpose of preserving the copper sheathing of + ships' bottoms. To this subject Sir Humphry gave much of his time, + and personally inspected all the boats and vessels on which the + trials were made. Although the theory upon which they were conducted + proved eminently correct, no advantage could be ultimately taken of + the plans which it suggested. The saving of the copper was wholly + counterbalanced by an accumulation of shell-fish and sea-weed on the + sheathing, which became sufficient, in a short time, to prevent the + proper command of the ship at the helm.</blockquote> + + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote6" name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag6"> (return)</a> +Abridged in the Arcana of Science and Arts for 1829.</blockquote> + +<blockquote class="footnote"> +<a id="footnote7" name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7</b>: +<a href="#footnotetag7"> (return)</a> +<i>Salmonia</i>, 1st. Edition, page 161. Several beautiful Extracts from + which, will be found in Vol. XII. of the MIRROR.</blockquote> + + + + <hr class="full" /> + <hr class="full" /> + + + +<h2>INDEX TO VOL. XIII</h2> + +<p>Abernetheyana</p> +<p>Actor, The</p> +<p>African<br /> + Festivities<br /> + Nurse<br /> + Widow</p> +<p>Agave Americana</p> +<p>Air Balloon, Lines on</p> +<p>Alderman, Antiquity of</p> +<p>Alehouse Signs</p> +<p>Algiers, Sketch of the battle of</p> +<p>Alnwick Freemen</p> +<p>Altitude of Public Buildings</p> +<p>Alvise Sanuto, a story</p> +<p>Ambition, Lines on</p> +<p>American<br /> + Comforts<br /> + Law<br /> + Sea Serpent<br /> + Song Birds</p> +<p>Anecdotes of Canning and Moore</p> +<p>Animal Food</p> +<p>Anne Boleyne, Marriage of</p> +<p>Anne of Geierstein, by Sir Walter Scott<br /> + Outline of the Story, &c.</p> +<p>Anticipation, Lines on</p> +<p>April Fools, Lines on</p> +<p>Arab, Lay of the Wandering</p> +<p>Arctic Adventures</p> +<p>Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury</p> +<p>Auctions, Antiquity of</p> +<p>Aurora Borealis</p> +<p>Austin Friars, Church of</p> +<p>Avver Bread</p> +<p>Bachelors, Advice to</p> +<p>Bad Writing</p> +<p>Ball, Lines on</p> +<p>Balloon Ascent, Recent</p> +<p>Bamborough Castle</p> +<p>Banana Tree</p> +<p>Banditti, South American</p> +<p>Bannockburn, a ballad</p> +<p>Baron's Trumpet</p> +<p>Bazaar, Oxford-street</p> +<p>Bears on the Ice</p> +<p>Beauty, On</p> +<p>Bees, Food of<br /> + Instinct of<br /> + Management of</p> +<p>Beet Root Sugar</p> +<p>Bird of the Tomb, a poem</p> +<p>Birds, Crop of</p> +<p>Birds' Nests</p> +<p>Bishops, Magnificent</p> +<p>Blackheath, Cave at</p> +<p>Blind Girl, The</p> +<p>Boarding, Custom of</p> +<p>Bolivar, Memoir of</p> +<p>Book-machinery</p> +<p>Box-tree, The</p> +<p>Boxes, The</p> +<p>Brazilian Slave Trade</p> +<p>British Artists' Society<br /> + Diorama</p> +<p>Broiling Steaks, a Story</p> +<p>Broken Heart, The</p> +<p>Brandon, Charles, of Suffolk</p> +<p>Bruce Castle, Description of</p> +<p>Bubble and Squeak, To make</p> +<p>Buckingham Palace described</p> +<p>Bull Fights at Lima</p> +<p>Bunyan's Syllabub Pot</p> +<p>Byron, Lord, Anecdotes of</p> +<p>Calenture, or Maladie de Pays</p> +<p>Callender, N.B.</p> +<p>Canadian Indians</p> +<p>Capuchin Interment</p> +<p>Carmarthen, Description of</p> +<p>Cat and Fiddle, Origin of</p> +<p>Cedar of Lebanon</p> +<p>Charing Cross, Old</p> +<p>Chart of Swan River Colony</p> +<p>Chatterton, the Poet</p> +<p>Chertsey Abbey, Stanzas on</p> +<p>Chester Terrace, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Chiltern Hundreds</p> +<p>Chimneys</p> +<p>Chinese Cities</p> +<p>Chinese Novels</p> +<p>Chosen One, The</p> +<p>Chromate of Iron</p> +<p>Church Spires</p> +<p>Clapperton, Captain, Death of</p> +<p>Clarendon House, Piccadilly</p> +<p>Classical Corrections</p> +<p>Cliffords of Craven, Legend of</p> +<p>Clouds and Sunshine</p> +<p>Coals, History of</p> +<p>Cochineal Insect, The</p> +<p>Coinage, Ancient British</p> +<p>College Dreams</p> +<p>Collop Monday</p> +<p>Colosseum, Description of the</p> +<p>Common Rights</p> +<p>Companion to the Almanack<br /> + Theatres</p> +<p>Content, Lines on</p> +<p>Convict's Dream, The<br /> + in New South Wales</p> +<p>Cook and the Cranes</p> +<p>Cookery and Confectionery</p> +<p>Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Cottage Gardens</p> +<p>Cotton Spinning</p> +<p>Covent Garden Market</p> +<p>Country Character</p> +<p>Cowes Regatta described</p> +<p>Creating Wants</p> +<p>Crime in Paris</p> +<p>Crosses, Ancient, in England</p> +<p>Crusades, Epitome of</p> +<p>Crushing to Death, Legal</p> +<p>Cuccu, The, Old Song</p> +<p>Cumberland Landlord, The<br /> + Terrace, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Curaçoa, To make</p> +<p>Curious Extracts</p> +<p>Currants, To Preserve</p> +<p>Dancing, Old<br /> + Lines on</p> +<p>Daubenton, Death of</p> +<p>Dauphin of France</p> +<p>Davy, Sir Humphry, Death of</p> +<p>Days Departed, a Poem</p> +<p>Dead, Tributes to the</p> +<p>Deathwatch Magnified</p> +<p>Denmark, Education in</p> +<p>Derby and Nottingham</p> +<p>Dinner and Tea Table</p> +<p>Diorama, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Discovery, Expeditions of</p> +<p>Dorchester Church</p> +<p>Douglas, Tragedy of</p> +<p>Dreams, Lines on</p> +<p>Drinking, Hints on</p> +<p>Drunken Frolic</p> +<p>Dutch Language<br /> + Tale</p> +<p>Ear, The Human</p> +<p>Eating, Hints on</p> +<p>Eggs, To Preserve</p> +<p>Egyptian MS. discovered</p> +<p>El Borracho, a Spanish Sketch</p> +<p>Electricity on Animals</p> +<p>Elm, the Witch</p> +<p>Elephant<br /> + Hunt in India<br /> + Skeleton<br /> + Public-house, Fenchurch-st.</p> +<p>Emigration to America<br /> + Swan River</p> +<p>Encyclopaedias, German</p> +<p>England and her Colonies</p> +<p>Epicures, English and Foreign</p> +<p>Epsom New Race Stand</p> +<p>Erie, Lake, described</p> +<p>Eskdale Anecdote</p> +<p>European Manufactures consumed in South America</p> +<p>Exeter 'Change, Old</p> +<p>Falkirk described</p> +<p>Falling Stones, Phenomena of</p> +<p>Famine in England</p> +<p>Farriery, Ancient, Lines on</p> +<p>Fashions, English</p> +<p>Fashion, Great World of</p> +<p>Field of Forty Steps</p> +<p>Fight in a Church</p> +<p>Figs</p> +<p>Fir Tree, Immense</p> +<p>First and Last Appearance<br /> + Crime</p> +<p>First Love, a Sketch</p> +<p>Fitzmaurice, the Magician</p> +<p>Five Nights of St. Albans</p> +<p>Flowers on the Alps</p> +<p>Flute-Playing, Lindsay on</p> +<p>Fontainbleau, Royal Hunt at</p> +<p>Foote, Miss, Lines on</p> +<p>Forget-Me-Not, Lines on</p> +<p>Fortune Playhouse described</p> +<p>Fossil Fish<br /> + Remains, Gigantic</p> +<p>Fountain, a Ballad</p> +<p>France, Road-Book of</p> +<p>Fraud, Lines on</p> +<p>Freezing Mixture</p> +<p>French<br /> + Authors, Anecdotes of<br /> + Carpet<br /> + Country Life<br /> + English<br /> + Pigs<br /> + Theatres</p> +<p>Frogs, To tell the Weather by</p> +<p>Frosts, Hard in England</p> +<p>Fruit, Ripening</p> +<p>Fulminating Powder, To make</p> +<p>Funeral Rites of the Greeks</p> +<p>Gaming in S. America</p> +<p>Gardens, Gleanings on</p> +<p>Gay Widow, a Sketch</p> +<p>Geneva, City of</p> +<p>Genii, Light and Dark</p> +<p>Gentlemen's Fashions</p> +<p>Geological Changes</p> +<p>Geology, Conversations on</p> +<p>German Life<br /> + Schools<br /> + Students</p> +<p>Gibeon, Battle of</p> +<p>Gipsy's Malison</p> +<p>Glancin E'e</p> +<p>Glow-worm, The</p> +<p>Gold Size, To make</p> +<p>Good Deeds, Lines on</p> +<p>Good and Evil Days</p> +<p>Gower, the Poet, his Tomb</p> +<p>Grammatical Learning</p> +<p>Gravitation, Novel Theory of</p> +<p>Great Seal of England</p> +<p>Gresham College</p> +<p>Grove House, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Growth of Trees and Animals</p> +<p>Gude News</p> +<p>Guy's Cliff, Description of</p> +<p>H., Lines on the Letter</p> +<p>Halcyon, The</p> +<p>Handel, Anecdote of</p> +<p>Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Haro, or Harol, Power of</p> +<p>Harrow School, Description of</p> +<p>Hatching Birds</p> +<p>Heaven, Lines on</p> +<p>Hebrew Melodies</p> +<p>Hertford, (Marquess) his Villa</p> +<p>Hillah on the Euphrates</p> +<p>Himalaya Mountains</p> +<p>Hirlas Horn, The</p> +<p>Hogarth, Anecdotes of<br /> + 's Paintings</p> +<p>Holland House, Kensington</p> +<p>Honest Prejudices</p> +<p>Hood's New Songs</p> +<p>Horsham, Description of</p> +<p>Hudson and his Pigs</p> +<p>Hugonots, The</p> +<p>Humboldt's Journey to Siberia</p> +<p>Hundred Pound Note</p> +<p>Hunted Stag, a Sketch</p> +<p>Hyde Park Entrance</p> +<p>Hydrophobia</p> +<p>Hieroglyphics</p> +<p>Idiot Girl, The, a Sketch</p> +<p>Idler, The</p> +<p>I'll come to your Ball</p> +<p>Image Boy, The</p> +<p>Independence, Irish</p> +<p>India, Voyage to</p> +<p>Indian<br /> + Claystone<br /> + Corn<br /> + Mills</p> +<p>Indian Plaster</p> +<p>Insects, Changes of</p> +<p>Instantaneous Lights</p> +<p>Invitations, Various</p> +<p>Iona, Lines on visiting</p> +<p>Irish<br /> + Deed of Gift<br /> + Names made English</p> +<p>Iron Trade, British</p> +<p>Isabella Colour</p> +<p>Italian Improvisatri</p> +<p>Jack of both Sides</p> +<p>Jerusalem, Lines on</p> +<p>John Bullism, Maxims of</p> +<p>John Dory, The</p> +<p>John of Gaunt</p> +<p>Johnson, Dr.</p> +<p>Journey from the Bank to Barnes</p> +<p>Judy, Lines to</p> +<p>Kenilworth, Romance of</p> +<p>King's Evil, Curing the<br /> + Speech in<br /> + Stag, The</p> +<p>Kirkstall Abbey</p> +<p>Kiss, Lines on</p> +<p>Kissing, Chapter on</p> +<p>Kitchineriana</p> +<p>Konigstein, Great Tun of</p> +<p>La Perouse, Fate of</p> +<p>Lady-Poets of England</p> +<p>Laleham Park</p> +<p>Lawyer, Epitaph on</p> +<p>Lead Miners of Derby</p> +<p>Ledyard to his Mistress</p> +<p>Legal Pearl Divers</p> +<p>Legends of the Lakes of Ireland</p> +<p>Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham</p> +<p>Lilly, the Astrologer</p> +<p>Lime, Effects of</p> +<p>Linlithgow</p> +<p>Loch Katrine<br /> + Lomond</p> +<p>London<br /> + Birds<br /> + Improvements<br /> + Levels<br /> + Lines on Leaving<br /> + Lyrics<br /> + Old<br /> + Stone, Ode to<br /> + Reply of</p> +<p>Long Stories</p> +<p>Love, Course of</p> +<p>Lover Student, The</p> +<p>Lower Classes, Education of the</p> +<p>Luxuries, Ancient and Modern</p> +<p>Macclesfield Bridge, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Mahogany Tree</p> +<p>Mahomet's Standard</p> +<p>Man, Lines on</p> +<p>Man-Mountain, The</p> +<p>Marcel, the dancer</p> +<p>March, Story on a</p> +<p>Marlborough, Duke of</p> +<p>Marriage, Lines on</p> +<p>Mars, Mlle. and Napoleon</p> +<p>Matrimonial Advertisement</p> +<p>May Day Custom</p> +<p>Mekka, Description of</p> +<p>Melting Subject</p> +<p>Memento Mori</p> +<p>Mercy and Justice, Lines on</p> +<p>Mexico, or New Spain</p> +<p>Microscopic Examination of the Blood</p> +<p>Mines of Hayna, Discovery of<br /> + Mexico</p> +<p>Mock Suns</p> +<p>Moliere, Anecdotes of</p> +<p>Monkey, Anecdotes of</p> +<p>Moore, the poet</p> +<p>Morning Star, Lines to</p> +<p>Morse, or Sea-horse</p> +<p>Mount Arafat and Mekka</p> +<p>Mug-house Club, Long Acre</p> +<p>Murder-Hole, a Legend</p> +<p>Murderer's Last Night</p> +<p>Mushrooms, Wholesomeness of</p> +<p>Mutton cold, Eating</p> +<p>Mutton Hams</p> +<p>Mexican Navy</p> +<p>Monumental Alteration</p> +<p>Nancy Dawson</p> +<p>Napoleon, Anecdotes of<br /> + young, Anecdotes of</p> +<p>National Debt, Plans to pay</p> +<p>Navarino, Battle of</p> +<p>Neck, Tradition of the</p> +<p>New South Wales, Population of</p> +<p>New Year's Custom</p> +<p>Newton, Sir Isaac</p> +<p>Noses, Chapter of</p> +<p>Nostalagia, or Calenture</p> +<p>Oak, Beauty of the</p> +<p>Ode from the Persian</p> +<p>Ohio, Scenery of the</p> +<p>Old Rose and burn the bellows</p> +<p>Old Mansions</p> +<p>Oratorios</p> +<p>Oratory, British</p> +<p>Ornithology, Mr. Jennings on</p> +<p>O'Sullivan's Punch Bowl</p> +<p>Ossian's Hall</p> +<p>Othello, Performance of</p> +<p>Otway's Plays</p> +<p>Painting, Moral effects of</p> +<p>Palermo, Party at</p> +<p>Paper linen, Manufactory of</p> +<p>Park, Mungo, Fate of</p> +<p>Parliaments, Epitome of</p> +<p>Parr, Dr., Anecdotes of</p> +<p>Peg Tankards</p> +<p>Pendrils, Family of</p> +<p>Persia, Royal life in</p> +<p>Persian Cavalier</p> +<p>Petrifaction Manufactory</p> +<p>Planting, Notes on</p> +<p>Pocket Books, Useful</p> +<p>Poesy, The dream of</p> +<p>Poetical Will</p> +<p>Polishing Stones</p> +<p>Pompeii, Recent visit to</p> +<p>Posture-masters, Ancient</p> +<p>Potato Chestnuts<br /> + Growth of</p> +<p>Practice of Cookery</p> +<p>Pre-aux-clercs at Paris</p> +<p>Public Improvements</p> +<p>Punch, Anecdote of</p> +<p>Puns and Conundrums</p> +<p>Pyrometer, New</p> +<p>Pyrothonide</p> +<p>Quarterly Review, Notes from</p> +<p>Quartre Bras, Battle of</p> +<p>Queen of Portugal</p> +<p>Rank and Talent, a novel</p> +<p>Regal Tablet</p> +<p>Residence, Choice of a</p> +<p>Rest, Lines on</p> +<p>Retentive Memory</p> +<p>Riches, Lines on</p> +<p>River Melodies</p> +<p>Roads of England</p> +<p>Robin Hood's Grave</p> +<p>Robinson Crusoe's Island</p> +<p>Roman Altar, Description of</p> +<p>Rome, Effect of, on the traveller</p> +<p>Rooks</p> +<p>Roses, Culture of</p> +<p>Rover, dog, Anecdotes of</p> +<p>Roué's interpretation of death</p> +<p>Royal Academy Exhibition</p> +<p>Rugby School described</p> +<p>Rupert's, Prince, Palace, Barbican</p> +<p>Russian Botanical Garden</p> +<p>Russian Navy, The</p> +<p>Sabbath, The</p> +<p>Sacred Poetry</p> +<p>St. Christopher's, Island of</p> +<p>St. Paul's Cathedral</p> +<p>Sanctuaries, Ancient</p> +<p>Sarcophagus, Lines on</p> +<p>Sawston Hall described</p> +<p>Schinderhannes, the German robber</p> +<p>School and College</p> +<p>Scotch Marriages</p> +<p>Scottish Inns</p> +<p>Scotland, Road-book of</p> +<p>Scott, Sir Walter, Portrait of</p> +<p>Screws and Screw Presses</p> +<p>Seal's Wedding</p> +<p>Sensitive Plant, The</p> +<p>Shakspeare, a fragment</p> +<p>Shaving in Churchyards</p> +<p>Sherwood and Robin Hood</p> +<p>Shrubs, Transplantation of</p> +<p>Sight, Lines on</p> +<p>Silk Trade</p> +<p>Sleeping Girl, The</p> +<p>Slugs, To destroy</p> +<p>Sneezing among the Ancients</p> +<p>Snow magnified</p> +<p>Snow, a long one</p> +<p>Snow-woman's Story</p> +<p>Soliman the Great</p> +<p>Solitariness, Lines on</p> +<p>Somerset House, Old</p> +<p>Song</p> +<p>Songs for children</p> +<p>Sorrows of Rosalie, a poem</p> +<p>South American Manners</p> +<p>Spiders, Gossamer threads of</p> +<p>Spittlefields in former days</p> +<p>Spots on the sun</p> +<p>Spoons, Antiquity of</p> +<p>Springs, Temperature of</p> +<p>Stage, The modern</p> +<p>Stanging custom</p> +<p>Stealing a Sheet</p> +<p>Stroll, near London</p> +<p>Sugar made from Rags</p> +<p>Superstition</p> +<p>Sussex Place, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Swan River Colony, Described</p> +<p>Swearing by proxy</p> +<p>Tailors, On</p> +<p>Talipot Tree</p> +<p>Tanning, New process of</p> +<p>Tea-drinking</p> +<p>Temperance, Lines on</p> +<p>Theatres, ancient and modern<br /> + Fire in<br /> + Royal visits to</p> +<p>Theatrical bill of 1511</p> +<p>Thorwaldsen, The sculptor</p> +<p>Throwing stones at the devil</p> +<p>Tigers, To catch</p> +<p>Timber Trees, Description of</p> +<p>Tim Marcks and the Walking Scull</p> +<p>Times Newspaper</p> +<p>Travelling, Expeditious</p> +<p>Travelling on the Continent</p> +<p>Trial by Jury</p> +<p>Truth, a fable</p> +<p>Turkish Prophecy</p> +<p>Twenty-eight & Twenty-nine, years</p> +<p>University, in Yorkshire</p> +<p>Valdemaro, Vision of</p> +<p>Valentine's Day</p> +<p>Van Diemen's Land, Aborigines of</p> +<p>Vary weel while it lasts</p> +<p>Vegetables, To make tender</p> +<p>Vicar, the, Lines on</p> +<p>Vidocq, the French policeman</p> +<p>Village Funeral</p> +<p>Villas in the Regent's Park</p> +<p>Vine, The, from the German</p> +<p>Violets, Complaint of</p> +<p>Wanderer, Recollections of</p> +<p>War, Miseries of</p> +<p>Warwick Castle, Description of</p> +<p>Waste lands, Cultivation of</p> +<p>Watch, Mechanism of</p> +<p>Watering-place arrivals</p> +<p>Water bewitched</p> +<p>Waterloo, Battle of described</p> +<p>Waverley Novels</p> +<p>Whigs and Tories</p> +<p>Whitehall, Description of</p> +<p>Whitsun Ale</p> +<p>Windsor as it was</p> +<p>Witnesses on trials</p> +<p>Woman</p> +<p>Wonders of Art</p> +<p>Wreck, The, a sketch</p> +<p>Yew-tree, The</p> +<p>York Minster, Fire in</p> +<p>York Terrace, Regent's Park</p> +<p>Zoological Society, Report of</p> + + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12017 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + + + + + + + + + + + diff --git a/12017-h/images/378-001.jpg b/12017-h/images/378-001.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b68cac --- /dev/null +++ b/12017-h/images/378-001.jpg |
