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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
The gazing eye, and soothe the vacant mind?
Say, is not NATURE's ample tome displayed,
Even to the careless wanderer in the field,
With loftier purpose? Wisdom's dictates pure,
Themes of momentous inport, charactered
By more than human finger, every page
Discloses. HE, who formed this beauteous globe
So fair, amid her brightest scenes hath hung
Fit emblems of a perishable world;

And graved on tablets he that runs may read
Your fickle date, ye sublunary joys,

The buds doth SPRING unfold, and, thick as dew
Spangling the grass, the purple bloom diffuse?
Comes a chill blight, and bids the sanguine youth
Read in its ravages a lore that tells

Of frustrate plans, and hope indulged in vain.
Do SUMMER Suns the mead with herbage load,
And tinge the ripening ear?
With sudden rage
The thunder-storm descends; the river swells
Impatient, leaps the mound; and, while the waves
Devour the promised harvest, calls on thee,
O Man, to tremble for thy daily bread.
The faded leaves doth AUTUMN scatter wide;
Or WINTER rend the desolated boughs,
And lay the fathers of the forest low?
Child of the dust, attend! To thee they cry,

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
refer to the INTRODUCTION.

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Animal kingdom, chemistry of, Bernard, Sir Thomas, 165

America, on the birds of, 111

Ammonia, xvii

Angler's song, 269

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Apricot-tree, 33

scription of, 115

Bile, xxxix

Bird-lime, xxxi

Birds, poetical invitation to, 110
of America noticed, 111-lines on
a bird's nest, 112, note

Bismuth, xxiii

April, explained, 90 poetical de- Bitter principle, xxix

Arsenic, xxiv

Ascension Day, 122
Ashton, landslip, 43
Ash-Wednesday, 46
Assumption, 194

Bitumens, xxxiii

Blood, xxxviii

Blackstone, Sir W. 41

Boerhaave, Dr. 223

Boracium, xv

Bones, xxxvi

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Cambridge commencement, 167

Camphor, xxxi

Caoutchouc, xxxi

Captive lark, 79

Carbon, xi

Carbonic acid gas, xi

Carburetted hydrogen gas, xii
Catholic question, 309
Cerium, xxvi
Charles I, Martyr, 12

11, restored, 123-anecdote

of, 168
Chemistry, compendium of, vii

of the vegetable king-
dom, xxvi-of the animal king-
dom, xxxiv

Cherry-tree, 61

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Christmas-day, 306-lines on, ib. Evaporation, xli

Chlorine, xv

Christ, birth of, 177

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Euchlorine, xv

Experiments, chemical, xlii-l
Extract, xxx

F

Falkland, Lord, 12

City-gates sold, 197

Claws, xxxvi

Coal, xxxiv

Cobalt, xxiv
Coburg rose, 280
Coffee, praises of, 324
Colchester, Lord, 309
Collier, Jeremy, 98
Columbium, xxvi

Compendium of Chemistry, vii

Conception of B.V.M. 302

Copal, xxxii

Copper, xxii

Cork, xxxii

Feathers, xxxviii

February, explained, 34
Fermentation, xxxiii
Fibrin, xxvii, xxxv
Fig-tree, 86

Filberd-tree, lines to, 119
Filtration, xli

Fire-side, description of, and lines

on, 322

Flowers, poetical description of, 135
Fluoric acid, xvi

Fly-making, lines on, 181

Forest, Indian, 235-scenery in Oc-
tober, 264

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
in bloom, 114
Fusion, xlvii

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Naples, custom at, 278
Narcotic principle, xxx
Nativity of B. V. M., 219

NATURALIST'S DIARY for January
1819, 23 February, 54-March,

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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
Ploughman, lines on, 57
Plum-tree, 215

Plumptre, J., lines to the red-
breast, 24

Pneumatico-chemical apparatus, xliii

36

Potash, xviii
Powder plot, 279

78-April, 108-May, 132 Portuguese Hymn to the B. V. M.,
June, 151-July, 178-August,
207-September, 234-October,
263-November, 296 Decem-
ber, 320
Nectarine-tree, 162
Newton, Sir Isaac, 201

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Princess Charlotte, lines on, 5,
280

Proclamation of King George III,
254

Prussian blue, xxxviii
Prussic acid, xxxviii
Purification of B. V. M., 35

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