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GENERAL INDEX.

The folios of the eight pages following p. 80 are misprinted.

266 Coroner's inquest trial in England,

168 Covering for houses, &c.

127 Curious wheel-lock musket

325 Cuvier's fossil remains

486 Drama, the

356 Drinking healths

126 Duelling