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North America: its agriculture and climate : containing observations on the agriculture and climate of Canada, the United States, and the island of Cuba / by Robert Russell
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INDEX.

Camp meetings, Methodist, 21.

Canada, climate of, 64.

Canada soils, 70, 71.

Canada wheat crops, 71.

Canada, Lower, 65-73. See also under Lower Canada.

Canada, Upper, 37-54, 74, 75. See alsounder M Upper Canada.

Canadian farmers described, 50.

Canals, 129,130.

Canal, Erie, 130.

Canal, Welland, 44.

Canandaigua, 20.

Cane brakes, 88, 89, 283.

Canoes, 44.

Cape Fear River, 160.

Cardenas, 196.

Carolina, North, 157-161.

Carolina, South, 162-167.

Carolinas, education in, 302.

Carolinas, geological structure of, 169.Carrots, 49, 59.

Catawba grape, 86, 87.

Catholic Chapel, Burlington, 16.Catholic Seminary at Quebec, 69.

Cattle, 80, 83.

Cattle in the cotton regions, 270.

Cattle of Cuba, 222.

Cattle, Durham, 101.

Cattle, feeding of, in winter, 92.

Cattle, shorthorned, 49, 90.

Cecil, county of, 144.

Chamblay, 60, 61.

Champlain, Lake, 17.

Charleston, 162.

Charleston, exports, 162,163.Charleston, Sunday at, 162.

Charleston to Havannah, 186.

Cherokee rose, 263.

Chicago, 107.

Chicago, exports, 108.

Chicago, labourers* wages, 108.

Chicago, prices of grain, 115.

Chicago, progress of, 108.

Chicago, value of land, 108.

Chicago to Baltimore, 110.

Chinese in Cuba, 194, 197, 198, 232.Church beggars in Cuba, 193.

Churches in Havannah, 199.

Cincinnati, 83.

Cincinnati, banks in, 89.

Cincinnati factories, 89.

Cincinnati heights view from, 86.Cincinnati Observatory, 85, 86.Cincinnati, pork trade o£ 89.

Cincinnati, scavenger pigs 84-Cincinnati, wine vaults, Mr."Long-worths, 86.

Cincinnati to Chicago, 90-109.

Clay, alluvial, 56.

Clearing of the forest, 40.

Cleveland, 77.

Climate of Canada, 64.

Climate of Cuba, 204.

Climate of Georgia, 185.

Climate of Montreal, 60.

I Climate, influence of, on the growth of! trees and plants 112.

Climate of North America, 303.

Barometer, fluctuations of, 325-328.Belt of high barometer, 307-309.Espys theory of the trade winds, 305.Hares, Dr., queries as to thecourse of storms 321.

Hurricane in Cuba, 1844, 359-363.Hurricanes in the West Indies 357,362-366.

Low barometer, cause of the longline of, 323.

Meteorological registers, 380.North-easters, 338-349.

Northers of the Gulf of Mexico,336-338; displacement of southwinds bv, 313.

Rains in the United States, 311-312.Recapitulation, 375.

Sea-breeze, 342, 343.

South wind, 315-317.

South-east winds, disappearance of,333.

Southerly winds, 371.

Squalls 355.

Storms, propagation of, from westto east, 366-375.

Thunder-Storms and tornadoes ofthe United States, 350-354.Temperature, general reduction of,319, 320.

Temperature, sudden changes of,313.

Trade winds, 805.

Tropical winds, 303.

Veering of the wind, 373.

Volney on trade winds, 310.Westerly winds, 329.

Wind, change of, 369.

Winds, warm and cold, 335.

Cloud, Dr., editor of the Cotton Plant,297 299 300.

Clover, 23, 25,* 27, 67, 81, 92, 100, 103,270, 276.

Coal, 117, 128.

Coburg, 51.

Coburg, farms in the vicinity of, 51.j Cock-lighting in Cuba, 194, 238.i Cocoa-nut trees, 189, 192, 196, 208.j Coco grass, 276.

Coffee, county of, Alabama, 287.

| Coffee culture in Cuba, 218.

! Coffee trees, 196.

! College, Congregational, Brunswick,

! Maine, 7.

I Columbus, Ohio, 124.

Columbus, farm to the west of, described,

| 124.

| Connecticut, valley of the, 13.

! Connewango River, 85.

Cooking stoves, 104.

| Cotton, cultivation of, by free labour,284, 285.

j Cotton culture, 164,165.j Cotton culture in Florida, 187.