THE BOTANIC GARDEN. CONTENTS OF THE NOTES. CANTO I. ROSICRU LOSICRUCIAN machinery All bodies are immerfed in the matter of heat. Particles of bodies do not touch each other Gradual progrefs of the formation of the earth, and of plants and animals. Monstrous births Fixed stars approach towards each other, they were projected from chaos by explosion, and the planets projected from them An atmosphere of inflammable air above the common atmosphere principally about the poles Twilight fifty miles high. Wants further obfervations Immediate caufe of volcanos from fteam and other vapours. They prevent greater earthquakes Conductors of heat. Cold on the tops of mountains Phosphorescent light in the even ing from all bodies 177 Phosphoric light from calcined fhells. Bolognian ftone. Experiments of Beccari and Wilfon 182 cutioner 281 297 335 Labours of Hercules of great antiquity. Pillars of Hercules. Surface of the Mediterranean lower than the Atlantic Abyla and Calpe. Flood of Deucalion Accumulation of electricity not from friction Mr. Bennet's fenfible electrometer 345 Halo of faints is pictorial language 358 We have a fenfe adapted to perceive heat but not electricity 365 Paralytic limbs move by electric influence Death of Profeffor Richman by electricity S 367 373 Lightning drawn from the clouds. How to be fafe in thunderftorms Animal heat from air and refpiration. Perpetual neceffity of refpiration. Spirit of animation perpetually renewed Cupid rifes from the egg of night. Mrs. Cofway's painting of this fubject Western winds. Their origin. Warmer than fouth winds. Produce a thaw. Water expands in freezing. Deftroys fucculent plants, not refinous ones. Trees in valleys more liable to injury. Fig-trees bent to the ground in winter Buds and bulbs are the winter cradle of the plant. Defended from froft and from infects. Tulip produces one flower-bulb and feveral leaf-bulbs, and perishes Matter of heat if different from light. Vegetables blanched by exclufion of light. Turn the upper furface of their leaves to the light. Water decompofed CANTO II. Solar volcanos analogous to terreftrial and lunar ones. Spots of the fun are excavations Spherical form of the earth. Ocean from condensed vapour. Character of Mr. Whitehurst Granite the oldeft part of the earth. Then limestone. And laftly, clay, iron, coal, fandftone. Three great concentric divifions of the globe. Formation of primeval islands before the production of the moon. Paradife. The Golden Age. Rain-bow. Water of the fea originally fresh Venus rifing from the fea, an hieroglyphic emblem of the production of the earth beneath the ocean 14 17 35 First great volcanos in the central Ancient ftatues of Hercules. An tinous. Apollo. Venus. De36 figns of Roubiliac. Monument 82 84 93 ΙΟΙ 113 116 Salts from animal and vegetable bodies decompose each other, except marine falt. Salt-mines in Poland. Timber does not decay in them. Rock-falt produced by evaporation from sea-water. Foffil fhells in falt-mines. Salt in hollow pyramids. In cubes. Sea-water contains about one thirtieth of falt Nitre, native in Bengal and Italy. Nitrous gas combined with vital air produces red clouds, and the two airs occupy lefs space than one of them before, and give out heat. Oxygene and azote produce nitrous acid. Iron from decompofed vegetables. Chalybeat fprings. Fern-leaves in nodules of iron. Concentric spheres of iron nodules owing to polarity, like iron-filings arranged by a magnet. Great ftrata of the earth owing to their polarity Hardness of fteel for tools. Gave fuperiority to the European nations. Welding of steel. Its magnetifm. Ufes of gold Artificial magnets improved by Savery and Dr. Knight, perfected by Mr. Michel. How produced. Polarity owing to the earth's rotatory motion. The electric fluid, and the matter of heat, and magnetism, gravitate on each other. Magnetifm being the lightest, is found nearest the axis of the motion. Electricity produces northern lights by its centrifugal motion Acids from vegetable recrements. Flint has its acid from the new world. Its bafe in part from the old world, and in part from the new. Precious ftones Diamond. Its great refraction of light. Its volatility by heat. If an inflammable body Fires of the new world from fermentation. Whence fulphur 119 143 183 192 and bitumen by fublimation, the clay, coal, and flint, remaining 275. Colours not diftinguishable in the enamel-kiln, till a bit of dry wood is introduced Etrurian pottery prior to the foundation of Rome. Excelled in fine forms, and in a non-vitreous encaustic painting, which was loft till restored by Mr. Wedgwood. Still influences 283 291 315 353 the taste of the inhabitants Mr. Wedgwood's cameo of a flave in chains, and of Hope Baffo-relievos of two or more colours not made by the ancients. Invented by Mr. Wedgwood 342 Petroleum and naptha have been fublimed. Whence jet and amber. They abforb air. Attract ftraws when rubbed. Electricity from electron, the Greek name for amber Clefts in granite rocks in which metals are found. Iron and manganefe found in all vegetables. Manganese in limeftone. Warm fprings from steam rifing up the clefts of granite and limestone. Ponderous earth in limestone clefts and in granite. Copper, lead, iron, from defcending materials. High mountains of granite contain no ores near their fummits. Tranfmutation of metals. Of lead into calamy. Into filver. Armies of Cambyfes destroyed by famine, and by fand-ftorms 435 Whirling turrets of fand defcribed and explained 398 478 193 Granite fhews iron as it decompofes. Marble decompofes. Immenfe quantity of charcoal exifts in limeftone. Volcanic flags decompofe, & become clay 523 Mill-ftones raised by wooden pegs 524 Hannibal made a paffage by fire 215 over the Alps 228 Paffed tenfe of many words twofold, as driven or drove, spoken or fpoke. A poetic licence. 534 609 2 CANTO III. Clouds confift of aqueous fpheres, which do not easily unite like globules of quick-filver, as may be feen in riding through water. Owing to electricity. Snow. Hailftones rounded by attrition and diffolution of their angles. Not from frozen drops of water Dew on points and edges of grafs, At 138 Situation exempt from rain. the line in Lower Egypt. On the coaft of Peru Giefar, a boiling fountain in Iceland. Water with great degrees of heat diffolves filiceous matter. Earthquake from fteam 150 Warm fprings not from decompofed pyrites. From steam rifing up fiffures from great depths 18 Buxton bath poffeffes 82 degrees 15 20 or hangs over cabbage-leaves, needle floats on water Mifts over rivers and on mountains. Halo round the moon. Shadow of a church-steeple upon a mist. Dry mist, or want of transparency of the air, a fign of fair weather Tides on both fides of the earth. Moon's tides fhould be much greater than the earth's tides. The ocean of the moon is frozen 61 Spiral form of fhells faves calcareous matter. Serves them as an organ of hearing. careous matter produced from inflamed membranes. Colours of fhells, Labradore-ftone from mother-pearl. Foffil fhells not now found recent Sea-infects like flowers. Actinia Production of pearls, not a disease Cal 166 of heat. Is improperly called a warm bath. A chill at immerfion, and then a fenfation of warmth, like the eye in an obfcure room owing to increafed fenfibility of the skin 184 Water compounded of pure air and inflammable air with as much matter of heat as preferves it fluid. Perpetually decompofed by vegetables in the fun's light, and recompofed in the atmosphere Mythological interpretation of Jupiter and Juno defigned as an emblem of the compofition of water from two airs 66 Death of Mrs. French 81 Tomb of Mr. Brindley 84 90 of the fish. Crab's eyes. Refervoirs of pearly matter Rocks of coral in the fouth-fea." Coralloid limestone at Linfel, and Coalbrook Dale Rocks thrown from mountains, ice from glaciers, and portions of earth, or moraffes, removed by columns of water. Earthmotion in Shropshire. Water of wells rifing above the level of the ground. St. Alkmond's well near Derby might be raifed many yards, fo as to ferve the town. Well at Sheerness, and at Hartford in Connecticut Monfoons attended with rain. Overflowing of the Nile. Vortex of afcending air. Rifing of the Dogftar announces the floods of the Nile. Anubis hung out upon their temples 129 116 204 260 308 341 The 366 Invention of the pump. pifton lifts the atmosphere above it. The furrounding atmosphere prefles up the water into the vacuum. Manner in which a child fucks Air-cell in engines for extinguishing fire. Water difperfed by the explofion of gun-powder. Houfes preferved from fire by earth on the floors, by a fecond cieling of iron-plates or coarse mortar. Wood impregnated with alabaster or flint Mufcular actions and fenfations of plants 460 River Achelous. Horn of Plenty 495 Flooding lands defends them from vernal frofts. Some fprings depofit calcareous earth. Some contain azotic gas, which contributes to produce nitre. Snow water less serviceable 406 540 CANTO IV. Cacalia produces much honey, Thyrfis escapes the Plague 128 Sound propagated best by dense 178 190 Diving balloons fupplied with pure one by Mr. Boyle 207 Mr. Day. Mr. Spalding Capt. Pierce and his daughters Vegetable love in Parnaffia, Ni- gella. Vegetable adultery in 472 479 482 Strong vegetable fhoots and roots 229 Difeafes of plants four kinds, Ho- 535 Peftilential winds of volcanic ori- 3201 Glafs unannealed. Its cracks ow- lead-ore cracks into pieces. Sleep of plants. Their irritability, 549 568 |