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i. 295. From sea, increases gradually till twelve, sinks 

 away, and totally hushed at five; upon its ceasing, the 

 land-breeze begins, increases till twelve at night, and is 

 succeeded in the morning by the sea-breeze ; cause of these 

 two breezes ; sometimes these sea and land-breezes come 

 at all hours ; the land and sea-breezes on the coasts of 

 Malabar and at Congo, 299. 



Brisson, his method of classing animals, ii. 14-2. 



Bristol, a citizen of it who ruminated his food, ii. 226. 



Britons, the ancient, considered the hare as an unclean ani- 

 mal, and religiously abstained from it, iii. 127. The cock 

 a forbidden food among them, iv. ISO. 



Broches, the horns of the stag the first year, ii. 317. 



Brock, the stag of the third year, ii. 317. 



Brown (Sir Thomas) hoped one day to produce children by 

 the same method as trees, i. 367. His opinion upon the 

 cause of blackness in human complexions, ii. 91. 



Brun (Le) giving a painter directions about the passions, 

 places the principal expression of the face in the eye-brows, 

 i. 414-. 



Brush, the name given by huntsmen to the tail of the fox, 

 iii. 4-9. 



Brutes, in those countries where men are most barbarous and 

 stupid, brutes are most active and sagacious, iii. 314. 



Buacne (M.) has given a map of the bottom of the sea be- 

 tween Africa and America, i. 249. 



Bubalus, an animal partaking of the mixed natures of the 

 cow, the goat, and the deer ; its description ; has often 

 been called the Barbary cow. from which it differs widely, 

 ii. 288, &c. 



, properly a gazelle of Africa, ii. 346. 



i i , of the ancients, supposed of the cow kind by Buffon, 

 placed among the lower class of ruminant quadrupeds, ii. 

 237. 



Buccinums, one or two of them viviparous, v. 221. 



Buck, capable of propagating at the age of one year ; one buck 

 sufficient for a hundred and fifty goats ; becomes old before 

 his seventh year, ii. 266. Hunting the buck and the stag 

 performed in the same manner in England, 316. Number 

 of names invented by hunters for this animal ; does not 

 change his lair, like the stag ; manner of hunting him is 

 much the same as that of stag-hunting, 329. 

 Buck-goat, produces with the ewe an animal that, in two or 

 three generations, returns to the sheep, retaining no mark 

 of its ancient progenitor, ii. 252. 



Buffalo; of the varieties of the cow kind, but two are really 

 distinct, the cow and the buffalo ; they bear an antipathy to 

 each other; they do not breed among each other, and no 

 animals are more distinct and like each other less; are in 



