INDEX. 227 



Bonnet chinois, M. Buffon's name of a monkey, supposed a 

 variety of that called Malbrouk, iii. 316. 



Bonito, description of this fish, v. 126. 



Booby, name given by our seamen to birds of the penguin 

 tribe, iv. 395. 



Borandians, description of them, ii. 74. 



Boristhenes, or Nieper, a river, its course and source, i. 180. 



Borneo, island in the East Indies, where the babyrouessa, or 

 Indian hog, is principally found ; hog of Borneo, the name 

 given by travellers to the babyrouessa, ii. 382. 



, the natives hunt the ourang outang in the same man- 

 ner as the elephant or the lion, iii. 289. 



Bosphorus, (the Thracian) was the first appropriated, by 

 granting to such as were in possession of its shore the right 

 of fishing in it, i. 201. 



Bottom of the sea in some parts not found, and why ; that 

 of the Red Sea a forest of submarine plants ; that of the 

 sea near America covered with vegetables ; a map of the 

 bottom of the sea between Africa and America, by M. 

 Buache, i. 248, &c. 



Bowels of the ruminating animals considered as an elaboratory 

 with vessels in it, ii. 223. 



Boyuna, of Ceylon, a kind of serpent, v. 376. 



Braiu and spinal marrow the first seen in the embryo, ii. 20. 

 Earth-worm entirely without it, vi. 176. Some animals 

 live without their brain for weeks, 178. 



Brambling, bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. 



Bramins of India have a power of s"melling equal to most crea- 

 tures ; they smell the water they drink, though to us quite 

 inodorous, ii. 47. Have erected hospitals for the mainte- 

 nance of all kinds of vermin, 84. Also for such monkeys 

 as are sick or disabled, iii. 316. 



Brasil, black clothes worn there soon turn of an iron-colour ; 

 kept in the shop, preserve their proper hue, i. 268. Duck 

 described, iv. 421. 



Bread, twelve ounces of it, and nothing but water, the com- 

 mon allowance for four-and-twenty hours, among the primi- 

 tive Christians of the East, ii. 8. That of the Laplanders 

 composed of bones of fishes, pounded and mixed with the 

 inside tender bark of the pine-tree, 76. 



Bream, description of the sea-bream, v. 120. 



Breasts in women larger than in men ; milk found in breasts 

 of men as well as of women, i. 429. Black women's breasts, 

 after bearing one child, hang down below the navel ; it is 

 customary among them to suckle the child at their backs, 

 throwing the breast over the shoulder, ii. 88. 



Breath of the lion is very offensive, ii. 408. Manner of 

 breathing in fishes, v. 11. 



Breeze, constant breeze produced by the melting of snows, 



