THE 6 FAMILY MAGAZINE, OR MONTHLY ABSTRACT OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. ILLUSTRATED WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. VOLUME V. NEW YORK:-PUBLISHED BY J. S. REDFIELD. BALTIMORE:-RICHARDS & BROTHER. CINCINNATI :-ELI TAYLOR. 1838. [ENTERED according to the act of Congress, in the year 1838, by J. S. REDFIELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York, CONTENTS. AMERICAN CAVERNS 72 Hares 23 212 Wheat ASTRONOMY 270 New York, Philadelphia, and Barley 305 Officers of the United States Clover 394 Oregon 69 Governours of the States—1838 34. 358 Oriental Water Carriers ARTS AND ARTISTS-- Hyssop 13 Pepper Teniers, the younger 60 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE- Ancient State of the North American 127 Indian Attack upon Wheeling 157 Philip, Last of the Wampanoag Ancient Mexican Cotton Manufacture 158 Interesting to Sculptors 175 | Indian Summer-American Forests 355 Pyramid of Faioum Adventures of Col. James Smith Assassination of Francis Pizarro 463 Kentucky Barbecue on the Fourth of Principal Events of 1837 116 Procuring and Preserving Obje Prof. J. W. Francis, M. D. 130 * Cadwallader Colden 334 49 Recollections of Putman Omai 116 Rivers in Mississippi Red Sea 466 40, 80, 160, 240, 280 Rafts on the St. Francis LITERARY REVIEW 135, 191, 272, 392 Suspension-Bridge Catkins 53 Literary Character of Sir Walter Scott 342 Squatters of Labrador 169 MISCELLANY 39, 79, 158, 200, 239, 440 Sugar-Cane 14 Shoeing Horses 301 Meteorological Sketches 74, 106, 267 Suffolk Bank 77 Sunday at Home 143 Specimens of Ancient Love-Let 29, 57, 95 Manners of the Chinese 154 Signers of the Declaration of Cloves 229 Sketch of the Life of the Hon Conferva, or Natural Paper 427 Savage Fortitude Sketch of the Life of John Smi Black and White Swan 45 The Wild Boar Character of a Native Georgian Hammer-Headed Shark 46 Pawnee Sacrifice Denomination of Universalists 314 Destruction of the Janizaries by Mah- Extracts from a Narrative of Mission- ary Enterprises in the South Sea Exploring Visits to the Source of the 245 Temple of Schoe-Madou, at Pe Hudson 345 Osprey, br Fish-Hawk 248 Tallow Tree of India Engraved Rocks Scape-Guat, &c 285 Rope-Making 337 | United States Calendar-1838 341 Wonderful Escape from the In Wheat--Important discovery 115 167 EMBELLISHMENTS. 422 Astronomy Illustrated 19, 68, 104, 147 Man of Tierra del Fuego 1921 NATURAL HISTORY 193 124 194 167 221 168 257 207 Plane-Tree 209 Balm 289 Coriander 299 Teazle 333 Coral 364 Wheat 444 Black and White Swan 45 Oriental Water-Carriers 127 Philip, Last of the Wampanoags 201 Chinese Bowl and Chop-Sucks 109 View of an unfinished Tomb 264 Interiour of a Tomb at Petra 309 Flight of Lot with his Daughters 169 Lacerta Scincus 245 Roman Coasting Vessel Female Reading, with a Box of Rolls 417 287 Smokers, after Teniers the House where Peter the Great lived, in Doge of Venice wedding the Sia 393 339 Temple of Schoe-Madou, at Pegu 51 Jewish Taled with its "Fringes" Man of Sandwich Islands in a Mask 135 Man of Prince William's Sound 137 368 Woman of Prince William's Sound 137 Mariner's Compass 153 192 156 445 Washington Medical College 269 Plantain 417 185 405, 449 |