232 INDEX. 



Cabiai, the same animal as the Capibara, ii. 379. 



Cachalot, a fish said to pursue a shoal of herrings, and to 

 swallow thousands at a gulp, v. 13. It has generally gone 

 under the name of the spermaceti whale, till Mr Pennant 

 made the distinction, borrowing its name from the French ; 

 description; the throat of this animal very formidable ; with 

 ease it could swallow an ox ; it can at one gulp send a shoal 

 of fishes down its enormous gullet; it terrifies the dolphins 

 and porpoises so much, as often to drive them on shore ; it 

 contains two precious drugs, spermaceti and ambergris ; the 

 oil of this fish is easily convertible into spermaceti, by boil- 

 ing it with a ley of potash, and hardening it in the manner 

 of soap ; candles are now made of it ; the balls of ambergris 

 not found in all fishes of this kind, but chiefly in the oldest 

 and strongest, 52, &c. 



Cagui, or the saki, is the largest monkey of the sagoin kind ; 

 its description, iii. 819. 



Cajeta, a mountain near it was split by an earthquake, i. 136. 



Cairo, in what manner they produce there six or seven thou- 

 sand chickens at a time, iv. 135. 



Caius, (Dr) lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth, wrote the 

 Natural History of Dogs, and divides the whole race into 

 three kinds, the generous, the farm-kind, and the mongrel, 

 iii. 14. 



Calao, the horned Indian raven, iv. 186. 



Calcination, all animal substances, when calcined, are the same, 

 v. 285. 



Calf, name given to the young of the hind, or the female of 

 the stag, ii. 313. 



Calf, or hind-calf; the stag called so the first year, ii. 317. 



Callitrix, the green monkey of St Jago of the ancient conti- 

 nent ; its description, iii. 317. 



Callyonymus, the dragonet, description of this fish, v. 119. 



Calms attended with deluges of rain ; why, and where, i. 294. 



Camel, a ruminating animal, ii. 225. Camel and dromedary, 

 not two distinct kinds, only a variety of the same, which has 

 subsisted time immemorial ; the only sensible difference be- 

 tween those two races ; they produce with each other, and 

 the mixed breed is considered the best; of the two the 

 dromedary is far the most numerous; countries where the 

 camel and dromedary are found ; neither can subsist, or 

 propagate, in the climates towards the North ; Arabia the 

 most adapted to the support and production of this animal ; 

 the camel the most temperate of all animals; it can con- 

 tinue to travel several days without drinking, and is often 

 six or seven days without any sustenance ; its feet formed 



