ing, 634

Slavi, the religion of the,

Sleep, 274

Sleeping, history of, 402

Recoveries, singular, 32
Reinspadtz, the Castle of, 422
Repartee, a timely one, 604

Results, great, from small beginnings, 635
Rhetoric, on, 349

Rhine, steam-boats on it, 128
Rhinoceros, contrivance of the, 355
Rivers, the colour of, in floods, 565

`Roads in England and France, 351

Sneezing, ancient superstition on, 251
Social systems, exposure of them, 115
Socrates, the last sacrifice of, 208
Soil, natural formation of, 348
Somnambulism, curious case of, 232
Souvenir, the cost of it, 35
Spain, elysium in, 604

Spanish sheep generally black, 251
Spectral illusion, 32

Speech, rapidity of, 208

of an Indian chief in reply to a
Christian Missionary, 274
Sphinx, the tale of the, 11
Spider, the aërial one, 368
with ten eyes, 564

Sponge-fishery, ib.

St. Peter's, immensity of, 210
St. Petersburgh, letters from, 493
Sugar from melons, 565

from hay, 634

Sun, Dr. Herschel's hypothesis of its being
inhabited, 37

said to be a body of ice, 525

-, spots on it, 635

Rossini, 28, 346

Surumpi, the, 61

Stars lost, 324