Chapter D

_Davila_, Pedro Arias,
his execution of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, whom he superseded, 184.

_Dobell_, Peter,
his Travels in Kamtchatka and Siberia, with a narrative of a residence
in China, reviewed, 52, &c.
his facilities for acquiring information, 52
venality of the Chinese, 53
opium smuggling, 54
robbery of the government, 54, 55
pirates, and fate of their leader Apo-Tsy, 55
salt trade, _ib._
unblushing venality of the mandarins, 56, 57
population of China overrated, 57
productions of the climate, tea, 58, 59
mechanic arts, 59
character, mode of living, temperature, fops, amusements, 60, 61
dinners of ceremony, 62
religion, 62, 63
Mr. Dobell's arrival at St. Peter's and St. Paul's, 63
bay of Avatcha, and embankments on the river, _ib._
the Kamtchatdales poor but hospitable, 64
their dwellings, 65
hospitable reception at the cottage of Toyune of Sherrom, 66
volcano of Klootchefsky, _ib._
town of Nijna Kamtchatsk, _ib._
winter store of a Kamtchadale family, 67
perilous adventure of the Toyune of Malka, _ib._
sagacity, perseverance, and swiftness, of the Kamtchatdale dogs, 69
in the country of the Tongusees, the author deserted by the native
guides, and his dangerous adventures, 70-72
town of Ochotsk, 72, 73
journey thence to Yakutsk, 73
dress and appearance of the Yakuts and Tongusees, 74
water communications of Siberia, _ib._
colony of banished persons on the banks of the river Aldan, 75
the Yakuts a pastoral people, 76
arrival at Yakutsk, _ib._
Siberian wedding, 77
town of Olekma, 78
Irkutsk the capital of eastern Siberia, 79
journey thence to St. Petersburg, 80, &c.
disinterestedness of the Siberians, _ib._
Tomsk, _ib._
Tobolsk, 81.

_Dufrenoy_, MM. and Elie de Beaumont,
their Voyage Metallurgique en Angleterre, notice of, 352, &c. See
_Iron_.

_Dyspepsia_, Method of Curing, by O. Halsted,
reviewed, 233-246.

E.

_Egyptian Hieroglyphics_. See _Hieroglyphic System_, 339, &c.

_Encisor_, Martin Fernandez de,
his participation in the early adventures in South America, 171, &c.

_Ennui_,
J. L. Alibert's chapter on, in his Physiology of the Passions,
reviewed, 33, &c.
character of the work, _ib._
Lord Byron's description of ennui, 34
literature of the day transient, with a feverish excitement for
novelty, 34, 35
nature of ennui, 36
Solomon's delineation of it, 37
illustration in Achilles, 38
in Bruce the traveller, 38
in Vergniaud, _ib._
ennui conjured up the ghost of Caesar to Brutus on the eve of the
battle of Phillippi, 39
its extensive influence, 40
its operation to be traced in the sanguinary amusements of ancient
Rome, 41
its power over Jean Jacques Rousseau, 42
exemplified in Spinoza, 43
Aristotle, _ib._
King Saul, 45
causes the slander of the gossips, _ib._
influence on fashion, 46
in the haunts of business, _ib._
peoples the mad house, and inhabits jails, _ib._
Pyrrhus an ennuye, 47
Napoleon, 48
Leibnitz, _ib._
Lord Bolingbroke, 49, 50
cure for it, 51.

_Erskine_, Lord,
notice of, 324, 325.

_Europe and America_, &c.,
translated from the German of Dr. C. F. Von Schmidt-Phiseldek, by
Joseph Owen, reviewed, 398, &c.
features which distinguish the American from other revolutions, 399
representations made to England in 1635 of disloyalty in
Massachusetts, 400
deductions from the North American revolution in regard to the south,
401
the old governments of Europe, 401-403
effects of the American revolution upon Europe, 404, 405
discontents now agitating Europe, 406-408
causes that will produce emigration to America, 408, 409
Europe cannot do without America, 409, 410
in seeking new markets for her surplus manufactures, North America
will be an enterprising rival, 411
the old world destined to receive its impulses in future from the
new, 412
consideration of events which have occurred in Europe since Von
Schmidt-Phiseldek's work was published, 413, &c.
situation of France, 415
England, 415, 416
Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Prussia, 417
South American states, 418.

F.

_Fendall_, Josias,
trouble to the colony of Maryland from, 492, 493.

_Fowler_, Dr.,
his opinion of the medicinal virtue of tobacco, 153.

_Fox_, Charles,
notice of, 322, 325.

_France_ in 1829-30, by Lady Morgan,
reviewed. See _Morgan_, Lady, 1, &c.

_Francis_, Sir Philip,
his claim to the authorship of Junius, 325.

_Franklin_, Dr.,
anecdote of, 163.

G.

_Gallatin_, Albert,
in the Convention at New-York, to form a University, 285-305.

_George IV._, Life of, &c., by the Rev. George Croly, A. M.,
reviewed, 314, &c.
marriage to Sophia Caroline, 315
character of George III., 316
private education of the Prince of Wales, 317
income allowed him, _ib._
attempts to palliate his vices, 318-320
his debts and expenditures, 321
Pitt, Fox, and Sheridan, 322-324
Burke and Sheridan, 324, 325
investigation of the authorship of Junius, Sir Philip Francis, Edmund
Burke, Horne Tooke, Wilkes, Lord George Germaine, Dunning, Gerard
Hamilton, &c., 325-327
jeux d'esprit of the Prince, 328
his marriage, Mrs. Fitzherbert, 329
ascends the throne as regent, 330
his last sickness and death, 330, 331
description of an election for members of Parliament, 332-334
how republicans can usefully study the characters of kings and
legitimate nobility, 335-338.

_George III._,
character of, 316.

_Germaine_, Lord George,
his claim to the authorship of Junius, 326.

_Greppo_, J. G. H., Vicar General of Belley,
his Essay on the Hieroglyphic System of M. Champollion, Jr.,
reviewed, 339, &c. See _Hieroglyphic System_.

_Grimke_, Thomas S.,
his oration before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
notice of, 283-302.

_Guerra_, Christoval,
his adventure to South America, 168.

H.

_Hall_, Judge Dominick A.,
his arrest and imprisonment by General Jackson, 226-232.

_Halsted_, O.,
his Method of curing Dyspepsia, reviewed, 233-246.

_Hamilton_, Gerard,
his claim to the authorship of Junius, 326.

_Hayne_, General,
his attack in Congress on the New-England States, and the discussion
that ensued, 448-455.

_Hearne_,
(the traveller) his commendation of tobacco, 153.

_Herculaneum_ and Pompeii,
ruins of, 525-527.

_Hieroglyphic System_ of Champollion, Jun.,
Essay on, by J. G. H. Greppo, translated by Isaac Stuart, reviewed,
339, &c.
cause of Champollion's researches, 340
clew afforded by the Rosetta stone, confirmed by a monument found in
the island of Philae, 341, 342
signs common to both, 342, 343
advantages of his discoveries in the prosecution of sacred criticism,
344
plan of the author's essay, _ib._
did Pharaoh perish in the Red Sea? contrary opinions of the author
and Professor Stuart on, 345, 346
city of Ramses, where situated? 347
a manuscript 200 years older than the Pentateuch, 349
reason for the silence of the Scripture in regard to Sesostris, _ib._
concluding remarks of the author, 350.

_Hood_, Zachariah,
the distributer of royal stamps, in Annapolis, case of, 507, 508.

_Howell_, (author of Familiar Letters),
his commendation of tobacco, 149.