_Bacon_, Lord,
commendation of tobacco, by, 149.
_Balboa_, Vasco Nunez de,
his adventures in South America, 176-183
his execution, 184.
_Baltimore_, Lord,
his grant of Maryland, &c., 483, &c. See _Maryland_.
_Bank of the United States_,
report of the Committee of Ways and Means on, and the President's
Message in relation to, 246, &c.
President Jackson's course in relation to, 247, 248
propositions involved in his Message examined, 249, &c.
on the constitutionality of, 249-258
whether the influence it exercises is dangerous, 258-261
whether it creates discontent with the people, and collision with the
states, 261-266
whether the proposed bank is free from these objections, 266-282.
_Bastides_, Rodrigo de,
his voyage to America, 169.
_Bates_, Professor,
in the New-York Convention for founding a University, 285-287.
_Beaumont_, M. E. de,
his researches on the geological age of mountains, 109-112.
_Beaumont_, Elie de, and M. Dufrenoy,
their Voyage Metallurgique en Angleterre, notice of, 352. See _Iron_.
_Bible_, the,
oration on the advantages of, as a school-book, &c., by Thomas S.
Grimke, notice of, 283.
_Bolingbroke_, Lord,
character of, 49, 50.
_Bollman_, Dr. Erick,
his arrest by General Wilkinson for a participation in Burr's plot,
216.
_Bore_, Etienne,
his cultivation of the sugar cane, 198.
_Bruce_,
the traveller, a prey to ennui at the fountain head of the Nile, 38.
_Brun_, Malte,
his Universal Geography, 82, &c.
his arrangement of mountains into connected systems, 90.
_Bonaparte_, N.,
remarkable instance of ennui in, 48.
_Burke_, Edmund,
notice of, 323-326.
_Burr_, Aaron,
proceedings at New-Orleans in relation to his plot, 216-218.
_Byron_, Lord,
his description of ennui, 34.