210 INDEX. 



Aristotle's opinion about the formation of the incipient ani- 

 mal, i. 359 ; and mules being sometimes prolific, ii. 203. 



Arlotto, an Italian Franciscan friar; for his sleeping trans- 

 gressions taken before the inquisition, and like to be con- 

 demned for them, ii. 16. 



Armadillo, or Tatou, generally referred to the tribe of insects 

 or snails, ii. 154. An inhabitant of South America; a harm- 

 less creature, furnished with a peculiar covering for its de- 

 fence ; attacked without danger, and liable to persecutions ; 

 is of different sizes ; in all, however, the animal is partially 

 covered with a coat of mail, a striking curiosity in natural 

 history; has the same method of protecting itself as the 

 hedge-hog or pangolin ; when attacked, rolls itself up in its 

 shells, like a ball, and continues so till the danger is over ; 

 the Indians take it in this form, lay it close to the fire, and 

 oblige it to unfold ; this animal utterly unknown before the 

 discovery of America ; does mischief in gardens ; bears the 

 cold of our climate without inconvenience ; the mole does 

 not burrow swifter than the armadillo ; burrows deeper in 

 the earth ; expedients used to force them out ; manner of 

 taking them alive, sometimes in snares by the sides of rivers, 

 and low moist places, which they frequent; never found at 

 any distance from their retreats ; near a precipice, escapes 

 by rolling itself up, and tumbling down from rock to rock, 

 without danger or inconvenience; its food; scarcely any 

 that do not root the ground like a hog ; a kind of friendship 

 between them and the rattle-snake; they are frequently 

 found in the same hole ; they all resemble each other, as 

 clothed with a shell, yet differ in size, and in the division of 

 their shell; the various kinds; the pig-headed sort, the 

 weasel-headed, the kabassou, and the encoubert, are the 

 largest, iii. 224, &c. 



Arno, the river, a considerable piece of ground gained at the 

 mouth of it, i. 237. 



Aro, numbers of birds of paradise seen there, iv. 208. 



Arsenius, tutor to the Emperor Arcadius, lived a hundred and 

 twenty years, ii. 9. 



Arts, fault that has infected most of our dictionaries and com- 

 pilations of natural history, ii. H9. 



Asia, aim of the Asiatics to possess many women, and to fur- 

 nish a seraglio their only ambition, i. 404-. Lustre of 

 jewels and splendour of brilliant colours eagerly sought 

 after by all conditions of men, 425. 



Asia Minor, description of its inhabitants, ii. 88. 



Asiatic, the olive-coloured, claims the hereditary resemblance 

 to our common parent ; an argument to prove the contrary ; 

 ii. 96. 



Asp, a kind of serpent, v. 369. 



