Bells heard at a distance, 412 cracked, sound harsh, 411 silenced by a touch, 411 Bell-metal, 410 Bellows, 51 Bins purified, 266 Birds covered with feathers, 176 BLACK, 402 cloth warm, 186 eyes, 191 glass for spectacles, 408 hat turns red at the sea-side, 344 Hole of Calcutta, 250 kid gloves, 188 lead, 258 " prevents rust, 258 mist, 144 skin, 190 tea-pot, 197 " used by cotters, 198 " set on a hob to draw, 198 will never blister, 190 Blacks, 60 none to railway engines, 60 Blacksmiths strike fire by nails, 96 Bladders inflated by heat, 103 BLAZE, blue, 46 green, 45 yellow, 46 between the bars of a grate, 45 Blazing coals burn quickly, 39 Blood red, 242 purple, 242 Blowers, 70 Blowing cools broth, 180, 247, 312 tea, 248 Blue, 401 glasses, 407 sky, 132 sublimate, 426 Body warm, 87 BOILING, 234 WATER bubbles, 114, 283 makes it flat, 275 is in a ferment, 232 rattles, 116 runs over, 115, 233 swells, 114 one pot will not boil in another, 118 retarded by a spoon, 117 " by salt, sugar, 118 Bottled ale, &c., 268 Brackish water unfit for railway engines, 263 Bread heavy, 276 made with yeast, 276 Breath exhaled, 244 visible in winter, 217 Breathing difficult on a mountain, 255 previous to a storm, 255 BREEZE at watering places, 310 evening, 309 morning, 308 of islands, 309 speed of, 313 (_See wind._) Bricks for cold feet, 173 Brick stoves, 174 Bricklayers cannot work in a frost, 359 cover new work with straw, 359 Brilliancy, 364 Brine retards boiling, 119 tested, 361 Broth cooled by breath, 247, 312 by convection, 247 by stirring, 247 Bubbles in tea, 419 of boiling water, 114 Bulk for bulk, 110 Burns cured, 157 Burning glasses, 2 Caloric, 1 Cambric handkerchiefs cool, 184 Cambridge, rain of, 340 CANDLES, 74 burn, 74 " blue, 148 cotton, not easily blown out, 79 easily blown out, 51, 78 and rekindled, 51, 55 extinguished, 79 flame hot, 75 " hollow, 76 " pointed, 77 " purple below, 76 " tends upwards, 77 " yellow, 76 gas of, 281 held at a door, 290 hottest _above_ the flame, 79 give light, 76 make glass damp, 78 need snuffing, 81 Palmer's, 80 prevent our seeing abroad, 378 reflected in a window, 379 rush, easily go out, 79 smoke, 81 spirt, 155 suddenly introduced give pain, 365 wax, need no snuffing, 81 Candlestick rags catch fire spontaneously, 58 Capillary veins, 84 Captain Ross, 414