when the earth burns frore' and cold performs the effect of fire,' or of the sun, to dry the roads, to get the dung-cart, and carry out his manure, ready for the ensuing season of sowing spring corn. December, with its winds and it storms, its joys and its sorrows, is now passed away, along with the shortest day and the winter solstice; and a scene of renovation, of hope and of joy, opens upon us, which carries us from the contemplation of terrestrial and transitory scenes, to those which are unearthly and endure for ever. These are beautifully typified in the gradual march of the seasons. Deem we the face Of changeful seasons varied but to charm And graved on tablets he that runs may read The buds doth SPRING unfold, and, thick as dew Of frustrate plans, and hope indulged in vain. Each from his whirlwind, ' Earth is not thy home? GISBORNE INDEX ΤΟ Time's Telescope FOR 1819. ***For the various SAINTS, see the word. The Roman Numerals Animal kingdom, chemistry of, Bernard, Sir Thomas, 165 America, on the birds of, 111 Ammonia, xvii Angler's song, 269 xxxvi Apricot-tree, 33 scription of, 115 Bile, xxxix Bird-lime, xxxi Birds, poetical invitation to, 110 Bismuth, xxiii April, explained, 90 poetical de- Bitter principle, xxix Arsenic, xxiv Ascension Day, 122 Bitumens, xxxiii Blood, xxxviii Blackstone, Sir W. 41 Boerhaave, Dr. 223 Boracium, xv Bones, xxxvi Cambridge commencement, 167 Camphor, xxxi Caoutchouc, xxxi Captive lark, 79 Carbon, xi Carbonic acid gas, xi Carburetted hydrogen gas, xii 11, restored, 123-anecdote of, 168 of the vegetable king- Cherry-tree, 61 Christmas-day, 306-lines on, ib. Evaporation, xli Chlorine, xv Christ, birth of, 177 Euchlorine, xv Experiments, chemical, xlii-l F Falkland, Lord, 12 City-gates sold, 197 Claws, xxxvi Coal, xxxiv Cobalt, xxiv Compendium of Chemistry, vii Conception of B.V.M. 302 Copal, xxxii Copper, xxii Cork, xxxii Feathers, xxxviii February, explained, 34 Filberd-tree, lines to, 119 Fire-side, description of, and lines on, 322 Flowers, poetical description of, 135 Fly-making, lines on, 181 Forest, Indian, 235-scenery in Oc- Coronation of King George III, 223 Frog, lines on, 81 Corpus Christi, 142 Cotton, xxxii Cream, xxxix Creation of the world, 176 Crucibles, xlvii FRUIT TREES, described, 29, 61, 86, 116, 138, 162, 186, 215, 240, 270, 300-lines on observing one Naples, custom at, 278 NATURALIST'S DIARY for January Peter the Great, lines on, 11 Petion, President, 70 Petroleum, xxxiii Philips, John, 42 Phosgen gas, xvi Phosphorus, xiii Picromel, xxxix Platinum, xxi Platoff, General, 98 Plough Monday, 7 Plumptre, J., lines to the red- Pneumatico-chemical apparatus, xliii 36 Potash, xviii 78-April, 108-May, 132 Portuguese Hymn to the B. V. M., Princess Charlotte, lines on, 5, Proclamation of King George III, Prussian blue, xxxviii |