motives for observing the moon on various other grounds. In closing, therefore, this fourth volume, and quitting for the present the subject which has been principally had in view all along, I cannot withhold the expression of the pleasure I have in prospect, when, occupied hereafter in surveying the lights and shadows of the moon in a summer-night, I may reflect that there are thousands, nay tens of thousands, perhaps, who may have been induced, by the contents of these pages, to occupy them. selves at the same moment in contemplating the same inexhaustible sources of wonder, instruction, and delight.

END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME,

INDEX

TO THE

FIGURES IN THE FOURTH VOLUME.

IN BACCHUS AND THE PIRATES.

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Fig. 116, Bacchus . ... . . . . . . . . .

117, The Second Lion ..........
118, The Dolphins. · · · · · · · · · · ·

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119, The Grave or Funeral Urn.......
120, Lesbia, the Midwife ...........
121, Væ! Væ! ............
122, Glycerium and her Child ........
123, The Child, separate .........

IN THE EDIPUS TYRANNUS.

124, Edipus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
125, Groupe of Suppliants . ........ 101
126, The Sphynx ........... 111
127, The Leader of the Chorus...
128, The words Eos ws .......... 119
129, Teiresias .... ......... 122

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Fig. 130, The Figure 2. ....... . . . . 123

131, Mount Cithæron . . . . . . . ... 131
132, The Boy that leads Teiresias ... . . 134
133, Laïus in his Chariot ..... . . . 143
134, Jocasta . . . . . . . . .. . 145
135, The Number V. .. ... ..... 157
136, The first Shepherd ......... 159
137, The second Shepherd or ayyeros ..
138, Edipus in his infant State ...
139, The Eğayyeros, or Fame. ...
140, The Hawk . . . . . . . . . . . .
141, The Hog · · · · · ·
142, The Hake ............
143, The French Sphynx ........

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144, The left-hand Jay or Daw, in the moon . ...
145, The right-hand Jay or Daw, in the moon .. 261
146, The hieroglyphic left-hand Jay or Daw ... 226
147, The hieroglyphic right-hand Jay or Daw .. 263
148, The hieroglyphic letter T, or Toth ..264
149, The Groupe of Figures formed by the Shadows

of the Moon, as seen with the naked Eye .. 269

James Gillet, Printer, Crow.coni, Fleet-street, London. .