236 INDEX. 



Cartilage, the thyroid cartilage, i. 4-29. Cartilages in youth 

 elastic, and pliant in age, become at last hard and bony ; 

 and why, ii. 60. 



Cartilaginous fishes, their general conformation ; supposed 

 they grow larger every day till they die ; their internal 

 structure ; are possessed of a twofold power of breathing ; 

 apertures by which they breathe ; the cartilaginous shark, 

 or ray, live some hours after they are taken ; fishes of this 

 tribe can remain under water, without taking breath ; and 

 can venture their heads above the deep, and continue for 

 hours out of their native element ; little difference between 

 the viviparous and the oviparous kinds, in this class of fishes ; 

 five divisions of the cartilaginous fish, v. 67. 



Cassowary, a bird first brought into Europe by the Dutch 

 from Java, in the East Indies, where only it is found ; its des- 

 cription ; the part which most distinguishes this animal is the 

 head, which inspires some degree of terror ; its internal parts 

 described ; it has the head of a warrior, the eye of a lion, 

 the defence of a porcupine, and the swiftness of a courser ; 

 is not fierce in its natural character ; how it defends itself; 

 extraordinary manner of going ; the Dutch assert that 

 it can devour glass, iron, and stones, and even live and 

 burning coals, without the smallest fear, or the least injury ; 

 the largest of its eggs is fifteen inches round one way, and 

 twelve the other ; places where this animal is found ; it has 

 not multiplied in any considerable degree, as a king of Java 

 made a present of one to the Captain of a Dutch ship, as a 

 rarity, iv. 55. 



Catacombs of Egypt, ii. 125. 



Catamountain, hunts for the hare or the rabbit, ii. 159. Tire 

 ocelot of M. Buffon ; its description, 4-33. Is one of the 

 fiercest, and, for its size, one of the most destructive animals 

 in the world, 438. 



Catanea, a city utterly overthrown by an earthquake, i. 97. 



Cataphractus, or kabassou, is one of the largest kinds of the 

 armadillo, iii. 231. 



Cataract of the eye, Mr Cheselden having couched a boy of 

 thirteen, who to that time had been blind, and at once hav- 

 ing restored him to sight, curiously marked the progress of 

 his mind upon the occasion, ii. 25. 



Cataracts of the Rhine, and of the Nile ; the cataract of the 

 river Velino, in Italy, is above a hundred and fifty feet per- 

 pendicular ; one near Gottenburgh in Sweden ; other cata- 

 racts, i. 192. 



Caterpillars, their differences from all other insects ; all these 

 animals are hatched from the eggs of butterflies; during 

 winter the greatest number of caterpillars are in an egg 

 state ; in the aurelia state, they are seemingly deprived of 

 life and motion ; some do not make any change at the ap- 



