INDEX. 



The Roman character denotes the volume, the Arabic 

 number the page. 



ABDOMINAL Fish, their description, v. 116. 



Abstemious life, its great benefit, ii. 64. 



Abstinence, religiously observed long after the Reformation ; 

 Queen Elizabeth's injunctions upon this head ; a heavenly 

 institution, from its benefit and advantage to society, ii. 7- 

 Remarkable instance of it in the sloth, iii. 409. 



Acanthopterigii, the prickly-finned fish, v. 116. 



Acorn-shell, v. 24-9. 



./Elian has seen an elephant write Latin, iii. 338. 



^Etna, a volcano in Sicily; remarkable eruption in 1537, i. 79. 



jEolipile, an instrument to produce artificial wind ; its descrip- 

 tion, and manner of generating violent blasts, i. 287. 



Africa, its sandy storms, i. 309. Destroy villages and armies, 

 ib. Several animals with four stomachs in Europe, have 

 but two in Africa, ii. 157. 



Age, the mountains of Scotland, Wales, Auvergne, and Swit- 

 zerland, furnish more instances of old age, than the plains 

 of Holland, Flanders, Germany, or Poland, ii. 66. 



Agouti, an animal found in great abundance in South America, 

 and by some called the rabbit of that continent ; it resem- 

 bles the rabbit, yet is different from ours, and peculiar to 

 the New World ; its description ; its ordinary food ; it has 

 the hair and voraciousness of a hog ; eats greedily, and hides 

 the remainder ; burrows in hollow trees ; its manner of feed- 

 ing and walking ; sight and hearing ; its flesh, how dressed ; 

 how hunted and forced out of its hole ; it turns in its own 

 defence upon the hunters ; its bite, and cry ; how tamed ; 

 bears two young"at each litter ; breeds at least twice a-year ; 

 carries its young about like a cat, and lodges them in a 

 tree, where they soon become able to provide for themselves, 

 iii. 161. 



