Battle of Bloody Brook, an Address Sept.
30, 1835, I. 634-670.
Battle of Bunker Hill, an Oration 17th
June, 1850, III. 3–35.

Battle of Lexington, an Oration 19th
(20th) April, 1835, I. 526-563.
Battle of Waterloo, secret history of the
first reception of the news of, in Eng-
land, III. 138.

Bavaria, Normal Schools in, II. 339.
BAVIUS, a worthless poet, I. 611.
BAXTER, RICHARD, his works read by
Benjamin Franklin when a boy, III.

608.

Bay of Fundy, violence of the waves at,
I. 457; declared by England not to be
a part of the Atlantic Ocean, III. 441.
BAYARD, JAMES, commissioner for
America at Ghent, 1813, II. 575, 576.
BAYLEY, THOMAS, killed at Bloody
Brook, I. 670.

Bayonne, Lafayette detained at, in 1777,
I. 467.

Beans, annual crop of, in Great Britain,
II. 467.

BEAUMONT, M. DE, visits the prisons
of the United States, II. 201, 203.
BECKMANN, JOHANN, his "History of
Inventions" cited, III. 580.
BEDA, instance of a self-taught man, I.

407.

Bedford, Massachusetts, her Revolution-
ary patriots, I. 563.
Bedfordshire, its fens, III. 545.

Beds, a rare luxury in the days of Eliza-
beth, II. 299.

BEERS, Captain, commands forces during
King Philip's War, I. 649, 651; killed
by the Indians, 675; his character, 651,
652.

Behring's Straits, I. 264; II. 296.
BELCHER, ANDREW, a publican of Cam-
bridge in 1652, III. 38.

BELCHER, JONATHAN, a member of the
General Court of Massachusetts in 1722,
II. 45.
Belgium, improvements in husbandry in,
III. 148; referred to, II. 370.
BELKNAP, JEREMY, D.D., a founder of
the Massachusetts Historical Society, its
first Secretary and a diligent contributor
to its Collections, II. 110; his Ameri-
can Biography, History of New Hamp-
shire, etc., 110; his Answers to Judge
Tucker respecting Slavery cited, I. 331,
n.; referred to, III. 250.

BELL, Dr. ANDREW, rival pretensions of
Lancaster and, I. 420.

BELL, JOHN, of Tennessee, I. 190.
BELL, JOSEPH, missing the day of the
Battle of Lexington, I. 563.

BELLAMONT, Earl of, Governor of Mas-
sachusetts, etc., III. 323.

Ben Lomond, Edward Everett's visit to,
II. 377.

Benedicts should not frequent inns, III.

40.

Benefactors of the race have generally
been men of humble origin, narrow for-
tunes, and small advantages, and self-
taught, I. 318; how can they best be
honored? II. 394.

Beneficence, duty of, and its high reward,
I. 309, 316, 317; recommended even
by selfishness, III. 55.
Beneficial influence of Railroads, Re-
marks on, 19th Sept., 1851, III. 82-87.
Benevolence, private, always to be exer-
cised, III. 107; it blesses him who ex-
ercises it, 108.

Benevolent operations in Boston, III. 103,

109.

Benjamin's sack, kind of wheat placed in,
by Joseph, III. 558.

BENNETT, JOHN, killed at Bloody
Brook, I. 670.

Bennington, battle of, II. 207; III. 249;
victory of Stark at, and its effects, I.

394.

Bequests, advantages of judicious, I. 179,

181.

Berber, Lower Nubia, II. 410, 411.
BERKELEY, Bishop GEORGE, his "West-
ward the star," etc. quoted, I. 41.
Berkshire, Massachusetts, settlement of,
II. 230; referred to, 150.
Berkshire County, Massachusetts, com-
menced cattle shows in Massachusetts,
III. 148; marble of, II. 372; its mar-
ble exported to Philadelphia, 143; re-
ferred to, I. 315, 617.

Berlin, J. Q. Adams appointed minister
to, II. 572.

Berlin, Rev. J. J. Hecker's normal school
at, II. 336, 337, 338.
Berlin and Milan Decrees, and the Orders
in Council, III. 140.

BERNARD FRANCIS, Governor of Mas-
sachusetts, his tone after the fall of
Quebec, I. 387.
BERNOUILLI, cited by Gibbon, III. 428.
BERTHIER, M., in the hands of the mob
in Paris, I. 488.

Besieged city, horrors of starvation in a, II.

614.

BESSEL, FRIEDERICH WILHELM, his
"Fundamenta Astronomica, pro anno
MDCCLV," III. 453.

Beverly, Massachusetts, Oration on the
Youth of Washington delivered at, 4th
of July, 1835, I. 564-598.
Beverly, Massachusetts, her Revolution-

ary patriots, I. 563; her loss of men at
the battle of Bloody Brook, 670.
Beverswyck, settled, III. 426; church
erected at, 1656, 426.

Bey of Egypt, conquests of, II. 410.
Beyroot, referred to, III. 55, 628.
Bible, The, A Speech at the Annual Meet-
ing of the Massachusetts Bible Society
at Boston, 27th May, 1850, II. 664–673;
importance of an intelligent apprecia-
tion of the value of the, 664; value of,
in a merely temporal point of view,
664; the general distribution of, urged,
and objections considered, 665-673;
Providential care of the continued trans-
lations of the, 666-671; compared with
the Koran and the Vedas, 671; proofs
of its divine origin, 673; difficulties of,
considered, 673; its lessons, its re-
proofs, and its consolations, adapted
alike to all ages, classes, and countries,
673; Luther's translation of, the great
instrument of the Reformation, and of
the revival of letters, I. 605, 606; its rec-
ord confirmed by the truths of natural
religion, I. 630; men of learning gener-
ally its advocates, 630; translations of,
widely diffused, 630; John Eliot's
translation of, into the Indian language,
a wonderful performance, I. 663; an
offence to possess, in the days of Queen
Mary, II. 5; Dr. Jenks's Comprehen-
sive Commentary on, II. 139; Natural
History of, by Dr. T. M. Harris, II. 139;
the teachings of, as regards social econ-
omy, II. 157; importance of the study
of, II. 324; in Public Schools, II. 358;
as a travelling companion, II. 413;
the Hebrew, II. 548; Latin, the Mazarin,
III. 300, 452; of 1162, III. 300; John
Q. Adams a diligent student of, II.
595; referred to, III. 318.
Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount
Sinai, and Arabia Petræa, by Dr. E.
Robinson, II. 422; excellence of the
work, 422.

BIGELOW family, of Boston, the hon-
ors gained by the, III. 224.
BIGELOW, HENRY J., M. D., on the
discovery of the anesthetic properties
of ether, II. 530.

BIGELOW, JACOB, M. D., his botani-
cal lectures in Boston, in 1813, II.
380, n.

BIGELOW, TIMOTHY, his Oration at Fan-
euil Hall, on the Fourth of July, 1853,
III. 224.
Bigotry, desolating effects produced by
that of Philip II. of Spain, I. 125; of
the House of Austria, as evinced by
the Thirty Years' War, 125.

Billerica, Massachusetts, her revolution-
ary patriots, I. 563.
BINGHAM, Governor, of Michigan, pres-
ent at the presentation of the cane of
Washington, III. 620.

Biographia Britannica, cited, I. 407, n.;
II. 121.

Biography, office of, III. 255; impor-
tance of the study of, I. 308; fascinat-
ing and useful, II. 1.

Biography. (See BELKNAP, JEREMY;
ELIOT, JOHN, D. D.; SPARKS, JARED,
LL.D; TUDOR, WILLIAM.)

Birds to be encouraged to frequent gar-
dens, III. 550.

Birmingham produces the steam-engine,

II. 61.

Birthday of Washington, Speech on the,
22d Feb., 1851, III. 58-71.
Biscay, Spain, II. 566.
BISHOP, NATHAN, Superintendent of
the Public Schools, his remarks at the
Anniversary meeting of the Associa
tion, for the support of the Warren
Street Chapel, III. 104, 107.
BLACKBEARD, or TEACH, the pirate, a
ballad on, by Benjamin Franklin, II.

16.

BLACK HAWK, late chief of the Sauk
and Fox tribes, at Washington, in
1837, II. 256; at Boston, Oct. 30,
1837, 256-261; his speech at Boston,
in reply to Governor Everett, 261; his
war in 1833, III. 212.

Black Sea, the cherry brought from the,
III. 546; telegraph laid in the, III. 628;
railroads projected from the, 628; re-
ferred to, II. 404; III. 55.
Blacksmith, an important auxiliary of
the astronomer, I. 295.
BLACKSTONE, Rev. WILLIAM, the first
inhabitant of Boston, I. 231; II. 308,
309; excellence of the spring on his
farm, III. 54.

BLACKSTONE, Sir WILLIAM, his Com-
mentaries cited, I. 114, 450; James
Otis's opinion of his Commentaries, I.
612; on the Navigation Act of 1650,
II. 81; on the use of the English
tongue in law, I. 31.

BLAIR, HUGH, D. D., referred to, I.
337; on the importance of a right im-
provement of early years, III. 81; his
comments on the Spectator, II. 19;
referred to, 377.

Blaise Castle, Bristol, magnificent pros-
pect from, II. 436.
BLAKE, JAMES, III. 329.
BLAKE, Admiral ROBERT, victories of,
III. 336.

BLANCHARD, C. W., his account of the

formation of Clintonville, Massachu-
setts, II. 67, 68.
BLANCHARD, LUTHER, at the battle of
Concord, I. 89.

BLANCHARD, TIMOTHY, wounded on the
day of the battle of Lexington, I. 563.
Bleaching, obligations of, to chemistry,
I. 271, 297; II. 248, 518.
Blenheim Castle, I. 76.

BLISS, GEORGE, of Springfield, Presi-
dent of the Senate of Massachusetts,
II. 143, 615.

Block Island, the Indians of, II. 125;
piratical vessel at, in 1722, II. 26, 43.
BLODGET, ISAAC, of Captain Parker's
company of Lexington, I. 561.
Blood, Harvey's discovery of the circu-
lation of the, I. 621; II. 475, 525; cir-
culation of the, said to have been known
in the days of Solomon, I. 621.
Bloody Brook, The Battle of, an Ad-
dress at South Deerfield, Sept. 30,
1835, I. 634-670.

Bloody Brook, tragedy of, II. 187.

and imprisonment, 502; his liberation,

503.

BOLTON, Mr., his improvements in the
steam-engine, II. 49, 428, 636.
Bombay, India, II. 371.
BOND, WILLIAM C., his eminence as
an astronomer, III. 48; his contribu-
tions to science, 456; his "Spring
Governor," exhibited in the London
exhibition of 1851, 473; his description
of the fluid ring of Saturn, 514.
BONHEUR, ROSA, her pictures of ani-
mals, III. 567.

Book learning, unreasonableness of the
prejudices against, III. 606; Frank-
lin's, ignorantly quoted as an instance
of the inutility of, 606; in fact his his-
tory, example, and precept, afford one
of the strongest arguments in favor of,
606-612; extracts from his Autobiog-
raphy, displaying his love of books,
607-610; substantial evidence of Mr.
Joshua Bates's appreciation of the im-
portance of, 612, 613.

Blue Ridge, I. 579, 580.

Blue River, Africa, II. 410.

Board of Education of Massachusetts.
(See Massachusetts.)

Board of Trade and Plantations, in
1731, II. 83.

Bobadilla, referred to, I. 61.

BOCCACCIO, estimation of, among his
countrymen, I. 428; obliged to retire
from Florence, 26.

BODE, his law of planetary distances, II.
531.

BODWELL, HENRY, one of Capt. Loth-
rop's soldiers, in 1675, his narrow es-
cape, I. 655.

Body, what is it? I. 291; solicitude en-
tertained for its well-being, II. 275;
blessing of a sound, II. 498; and mind,
the mysterious union of, and the effects
of their combined agency, I. 298–300,
373, 374; and soul, united agency of,
I. 292-294; illustrations of this truth,

295.

Bohemia, Huss's ministry and martyr-
dom in, I. 621; Frederic, chosen
King of, II. 643; war of, with Aus-
tria, 643.

309, 319, 326, 359, 361, 417, 616, 617,
626; II. 1, 311, 317, 321-323, 359, 360,
396, 413, 504, 505, 516, 545-550; Sol-
omon complains of the number of, in
his days, I. 611; origin of their general
use as instruments of education, 625;
no part of furniture in middle ages, II.
299; increase of, in modern times, I.
610, 611; for educational purposes, su-
periority of the new to the old, II. 348,
353, 547-549; modern critical and
scientific manuals, 547-549; not the
only teachers, II. 516; on America,
collection of, in Harvard Library, 549;
comparative character of, in Italy, Aus-
tria, Great Britain, and France, I. 627.
Book trade in the United States, I. 601.
Bookkeeping, one of the most important
of sciences, III. 47, 267; state of, in
old times, 267; of Phoenician mer-
chants, II. 305; Booth's System of,
III. 267.

Book-worm, the mere, a worthless char-
acter, II. 321.

BOONE, DANIEL, his first appearance in
East Tennessee, I. 193; his Western
explorations, II. 51.

els into, II. 398.

BOLEYN, ANNE, married to Henry
the Eighth, III. 303; Henry the Eighth's
love letters to, 303.
BOLLMAN, ERIC, M. D., discovers the
prison of Lafayette, I. 500; attempts,
in conjunction with Colonel Huger,
to rescue Lafayette, 501; his failure

Book-keeping," III. 267.

Boots and shoes, manufacture of, in the
United States, II. 73, 85.

Bordeaux, Lafayette directs a vessel to
be fitted out at, I. 465, 466; the vin-
tage of, III. 549.

BOSSUET, JACQUES BÉNIGNE, III. 496.
Boston, Lincolnshire, Rev. John Cotton

rector of a church in, II. 448, 449, 486;
Edward Everett's visit to, 448; Boston
in America named after, 448.
Boston, Massachusetts.

Albany, connection of, with, II. 146,
364, 368.

Astronomical science in, III. 428.
Athenæum, statue for, by Green-
ough, ordered by J. Lowell, Jr., II.
400; J. Lowell, Jr., an efficient pro-
moter of, II. 420.

British in possession of, I. 79, 96, 457,
534, 542, 550, 582; II. 162, 164.
Capitalists of, I. 351.

Citizens of, affectionately attached to,
III. 603; illustrate it by their char-
acter and achievements, 604; pa-
ternal guardianship of, by, 604.
Commerce of, I. 263; II. 85, 96, 144,
145-153, 308-312; III. 261.
Common, Pynchon's book burned
on, II. 154; British troops en-
camped on, 162. (See Boston Com-
mon in General Index.)

Condition of, in 1630, 1775, and 1838,
contrasted, II. 308-310; changes in,
between 1807 and 1852, 114.
Council of, give a dinner to Mehem-
med Pasha, III. 624, n.

East India museum wanted in, III.

270.

Education in. (See Public schools,
post.)

Emerson's " History of the First
Church of," II. 138.
Environs, beauty of, I. 362; III.

604.

Ether in surgery, used in, II. 530.
Evacuation of, by Sir William Howe,
III. 343, 344; the first great success
of Washington in the Revolution-
ary war, III. 632.

Foreign goods refused in, I. 536.
(See Tea, post.)

Fourth of July celebration, in 1838,
in, II. 268.

Franklin, Benjamin, born in, II. 2,
620; affection of, for, 2.
Franklin, Josiah, removes to, in 1682,
II. 6.

Frothingham's "History of the Siege
of," II. 139.

Grammar school of, old, extant in
1829, II. 8.

Hancock, John, an ornament to the
mercantile character of, III. 415.
Harvard University, liberal patron
age of, by, II. 310, 520, 543.
Industrial Association in, in 1788,
II. 85.

Lafayette's reception in, in 1784,

I. 481, and in 1824, 43, 522, 523;
his regard for, 522.

Lawrence, Amos and Abbott and
Co., an ornament to the mercantile
character of, III. 267, 375.

Lectures, in great favor in, III. 379–
383, 456, 457.

Liberality of, II. 537. (See Harvard,
ante; Merchants, post; Public Bene-
factors, post.)

Libraries, public, in, II. 311; IIL

603-614.

Literary institutions of, I. 307.
Loan of $1,000,000 to, through Mr.
Thomas Baring, III. 131.

Lynn, visited by citizens of, II. 133.
Mechanics of, in the Revolution, I.

80.

Memories of the past history and
achievements of, III. 604.
Merchants, II. 307, 310, 311, 520,
521; III. 261, 415, 567.
Municipal objects in, II. 236.
Nails manufactured at, II. 143.
New Orleans, trade of, with, II. 144,
156.

News Letter of. (See Boston News
Letter, in General Index.)
Non-intercourse of, with other por-
tions of the State, II. 146.

North Carolina sends presents of
corn and rice to, III. 646.
North-West Territory, trade of, with,
III. 269.

Patriotic services of, III. 604.
Pauperism in, III. 108.
Philadelphia, kindly association of,
with, III. 415.

Population, increase of, from 1765 to
1790, and from 1790 to 1800, III.
268. (See Condition, ante.)

Port Bill of, I. 79, 533; II. 510; III.
333.

Procession in, in 1788, II. 88.
Prosperity of, II. 96, 143, 537.
Public benefactors in, II. 307, 310,
520, 521.

Public institutions in, II. 307-309,
420, 520, 521.

Public libraries of, II. 311; III. 603–
614.

Public schools of, II. 2, 610, 623;
III. 58, 359, 604, 605.
Railroads which centre in, I. 262; in
1838 and 1850, II. 310.
Representatives of, in the General
Court in 1694, I. 533; in the Con-
vention for framing a Constitution
for Massachusetts, II. 384.
Sauk and Fox tribes, a delegation of,
visit, in 1837, II. 256-261.

Washington's first great success in the
Revolutionary war was forcing the
British to evacuate, III. 632.
Wealth of, II. 162, 165; III. 132.
Western Railroad, importance of, to,
II. 142-153, 363-373.

Western States, commerce of, with,
II. 143-153, 310.

Witchcraft in, in 1655, II. 130.
Boston Centinel, J. Q. Adams's "Publi-
cola" essays in, II 570; J. Q. Adams's
66 Marcellus essays in, 570.

Boston Common, war dances of the dele-
gation of the Sauk and Fox tribes in,
in 1837, II. 256. (See Boston.)
Boston Gazette, publication of the, com-
menced Dec. 14, 1719, II. 22.
Boston Latin School, III. 357; attended
by Edward Everett, 357; course of in-
struction, 115.

Boston News Letter, the earliest newspa-
per in British America, II. 22.
Boston Provident Association, Address de-
livered before the, in 1857, III. 568-602;
well organized and faithfully adminis-
tered, 584; duties of such institutions,
584, 585; notice of Mr. Calvin Whit-
ing, its late general agent, his excellent
qualifications for his arduous and per-
plexing duties, 585.

Boston Schools, Remarks on the day of
the examination of the, 23d August,
1837, II. 235-237.
Boston School Festival, Remarks at its
Annual Festival in Faneuil Hall, 23d
July, 1855, III. 355–360.

Botany, importance of the study of, II.
209; not taught in American public
schools about 1800, III. 74; improve-
ments in, II. 476; III. 548; lectures
on, in Boston, in 1813, by Professors
Peck and Bigelow, II. 380, n.; of Mas-
sachusetts, I. 616; II. 455.

Botany Bay, its settlement and that of
the United States compared by the
London Quarterly Review, I. 158.
Boundaries of land in the United States,
uncertainty of, before the establishment
of the survey, III. 439, 440.
Bourbon family, I. 124.
BOURDALOUE, his eulogy on St. Louis,
III. 623.

BOURN, JOHN, fought on the day of the
battle of Lexington, I. 563.
BOUTWELL, GEORGE S., Governor of
Massachusetts, his interest in the agri-
culture of the State, III. 149.
BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL, LL. D., his
humble origin, I. 324; a self-educated
man, II. 264, 356, 522, 621, 622, 624;
reads the Principia of Newton, II. 621;
becomes supercargo of a vessel, III.
444; commands the ship Astræa, II.
622; his gratification at receiving the
degree of A. M. from Harvard Univer-
sity, 622; translates the Mécanique
Celeste of La Place, II. 428; III. 429;
value of his Practical Navigator, I. 296,
324, 415; II. 264, 265; his review of
Bradley's Observations in the North
American Review, Vol. XX. p. 310, III.
453; his valuable contributions to the
Memoirs of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, II. 262, 264; his
opinion of F. C. Lowell's mathematical
genius, 391; his last interview with
Edward Everett, 266, 267; his distinc-
tion as a mathematician and astrono-
mer, I. 324; II. 262, 622; sends three
sons to Harvard University, II. 622; a
useful member of the corporation of
Harvard University, 622; his death, I.
324, n.; Edward Everett's Remarks on
occasion of his death, March 20, 1838,
II. 262-267; Mr. Pickering's eloquent
Eulogy on, 263; his talents, attain-
ments, and virtues, 262-267; his Chris-
tian patience, resignation, and fortitude
during his last illness, and at "the in-
evitable hour," 266, 267; Memoir of,
by his son, Nathaniel I. Bowditch, 622 ;
III. 444.

BowDITCH, NATHANIEL INGERSOLL,
his Memoir of Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch
cited, II. 622; III. 444.

Bowdoin College, legislative appropria-
tion to, II. 520; Leonard Woods, D. D.,
Professor of Theology in, II. 603; S.
P. Newman, Professor of Rhetoric in,
II. 358; referred to, I. 440.
BowDOIN, Governor JAMES, with
Washington at Dorchester Heights,
III. 340; a member of the Convention
for framing a Constitution for Massa-