  - A.
- Accumulation of property, its misery to all, 44.
- Admiralty, British, its characteristics, 9.
- Addington, Mr. his residence, 167.
- ——, political character, 280.
- Almanacks of prognostication, their prodigious sale, 252.
- Alfred the Great, his rare merits, 8.
- American Aloe, reflections on, 59.
- Anne Boleyn, her interview with Henry the Eighth, 58.
- Animal motion, economy of, 124.
- Ancestors, their number ascertained, 259.
- Ancestry, no ground of pride, 262.
- Anglican Church, its true foundation, 266.
- Ant-hill, like the British metropolis, 151.
- Antiquities, folly of the science so called, 340.
- Archbishops of Canterbury, their ancient residence, 303.
- Argument in behalf of poverty, 106.
- Aristocracy of trade characterized, 101.
- Arithmetic, its connexion with nature, 189.
- Articles of faith, necessity of revising, 267.
- Asparagus, its extensive cultivation, 55.
- Assembly, a subscription one described, 91.
- Astrology, its pretensions investigated, 234, 241.
- Author, his feelings on concluding his Walk, 389.
- B.
- Barber, Alderman, his tomb and merit, 253.
- Battersea-bridge, reflections on its toll, 41.
- Ballot, choice by, its pernicious effect and erroneous principle, 91.
- Bakewell, Mr. his mode of riding, 125.
- Barnes Poor-house, libel on political economy, 193.
- —— Common, its geological phenomena, 197.
- —— Church-yard, reflections on, 215.
- Bastile Palace, at Kew, 379.
- Beggars, their habits and gains, 3 and 4.
- Bee-hive, its buzz that of a distant town, 152.
- Besborough, Lord, his seal, 177.
- Bells, abuse of them, 210, 282.
- Blenkinsop’s steam-engine, its convenient powers, 332.
- Geological changes, their causes traced, 12.
- Promenade in St. James’s Park, its ancient splendor, 15.
- Pride, lessons to correct, 60, 358.
- Printing, its abuse, 362.
- Public Debt, how has it been expended, 41.
- Putney-Heath, objects upon it described, 137, 166.
- Public purse, a necessary stimulus to candidates, 81.
- R.
- Ranelagh, its scite described, 21.
- Railways, proposal for extending them, 75.
- Religious houses turned into market-gardens, 303.
- Reformation of Religion, 267.
- Retreats of men of business, 101.
- Repton, Mr. his powers of arrangement, 133.
- Rivers, absurd worship of, 355.
- ——, phenomena of their banks, 63, 356.
- ——, agents of never-ceasing changes, 192.
- Richmond Park, notice of, 166.
- Rights of man, intrigues against, 219.
- Road Police, suggested, 123.
- Royal Family, fond of Chelsea buns, 26.
- Rome sunk and London exalted, 36.
- Roads, principle of constructing them, 121.
- Roehampton, its cheerless aspect, 171.
- Ruins, without antiquity, 23.
- S.
- Saws, circular, their wonderful powers, 46.
- Self-knowledge, neglect of, 1, 362.
- Secondary causes, their general nature, 189.
- Senses, animal, their limited powers, 342.
- Shoe-making machinery, account of, 47.
- Show, policy of, among princes, 6.
- Shropshire girls, their industry and beauty, 226.
- Slavery, its protean shapes, 365.
- Sloane, Sir Hans, his statue, 37—tomb, 40.
- Smoke, improperly emitted, 21.
- —— of London, its remarkable phenomena, 130.
- —— ——, plans for consuming, 132.
- Soldiery, their specious character, 10.
- Society, state of, in England, 90.
- Soldiers, why and for what they are killed and wounded, 27.
- Soldier, who had lost both arms, 29.
- Spontaneous combustion, productive of superstition, 72.
- Spencer, Lord, his park, 133.
- Space, whether eternal, 350.
- Stage-coach horses, mismanagement of, 123.
- Standard of truth defined, 268.
- Sterility of ancient countries, cause of, 356.
- Statesmen, their mistaken policy, 4.
- St. James’s palace, its ruined state, 14.
- St. Paul’s Cathedral, 151.
- St. Lawrence, the, its probable fate, 337.
- Surfaces, the residence of electric power, 185.
- Surrey, its disgraceful wastes,
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