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Cassius, Mount, the probable ' amber
coast of the Phoenicians, 492, 493.
Castilian heroic ages, impulses of,
421.
Castor, Antonius, botanical gardens
of, 563.
Catlin, on the language and descent of
the Indian tribe of the Tuscaroras,
609.
Caucasus, Grecian myths respecting,
508.
Celto-Irish poems, 402.
Cervantes, his Don Quixote, and Galatea,
423, 427.
Chceremon, his remarkable love of
nature compared by Sir William
Jones, to that of the Indian poets,
380.
Chaldean astronomers and mathematicians,
532, 533, 544.
Charlemagne, Arabian presents sent
to, 591.
Charles V., letter to Cortez, 647.
Chateaubriand, Augusts de, 431 434.
Chemistry, pneumatic, dawn of, 729
731 : chemical knowledge of the
llomans, 562, 563; of the Arabs,
581, 582, 589.
Childrey,
light, 712.
Chinese, their pleasure-gardens, and
passages from their writers on the
of their
r
first observed the Zodiacal
subject, 462 464 ; antiquity
chronology, 475, 476; warlike expedition
to the Caspian, 553, Roman
embassy to China, 554, 555; early
use of the magnetic needle, 559,
628 ;
623.
of moveable types in printing,
Chivalric poetry of the
tury,
thirteenth cen-
400.
Christianity, results of its diffusion in
the exoansion of the views of men,
in Uutir communion with nature,
392; its humanisation of nations,
567, 568.
Chrysostom, his eloquent admiration of
nature, 396.
Cicero, on the golden flow of Aristo-
tle's eloquence, 381 ; his keen sus-
ceptibility for the beauties of nature,
383, 384, 385 ; on the ennobling
results of its contemplation, 566.
Cimento, Accademia del,
searches of, 721 728,
scientific re-
4
Civilization, early centres of, 475, 476,
478, 484
Classical literature, why so termed,
548; influence of its revival on the
contemplation of nature, 622 624.
Claude, Lorraine, his landscapes, 447,
454.
Claudian, quotation from, on the dominion
of the Romans, 567.
Colceus, of Samos, his passage through
the pillars of Hercules, into die
Western Ocean, 514, 515, 517.
Colchis, Argonautic expedition to, 508,
509.
Colebrooke, on the epochs of the Indian
mathematicians, 555 ; on the
incense of Arabia, 574; Arabic
translation of Diophantus, 596.
Colonna, Vittoria, her poems, 419.
Columbus, peculiar charm lent to his
delineations of nature, 420; their
religious sentiment, 420, 421 ; their
beauty and simplicity, 422; his
acute and discriminating observation
of nature, 422, 423 ; his dream on
the shore of Veragua, 423 ; letter to
Queen Isabella, 435 ; on the land of
Ophir, 501; visit to Iceland, 611,
612; died in the belief that the
lands discovered in America were
portions of Eastern Asia, 612, 613,
641 ; made use of the writings of
Cardinal Alliacus, 623, 626; his
letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, on
the coast of Veragua, 626 ; on his
knowledge of the log, 633 ;
characteristics, 63i), 640, 651 ;
scientific
erro-
neous views on the extent of the old
continent, 644, 645 ; heraldic bearings
bestowed on, 647; physical observations
in his letter from Hayti,
October, 1498, 653,654; discovery
of the magnetic line of no variation,
654, 657 first described the ; equatorial
current, 662, 663; the Mar
de Sargasso, 663 on the method of
;
taking a ship's reckoning, 671 673.
Compass, its discovery and employment,
628 630; transmission
through the Arabs to Europe from
the Chinese, 628630.
Conquista, age of the, great
events it
embraced, 675.
Couquistadores, impulses which, ani-
mated them, 648, 649.