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mountainous and woody parts, lives mostly in trees, and 

 feeds only by night ; the cat was much higher in esteem 

 among our ancestors than it is at present ; laws of Howel 

 concerning the price of cats ; cats were not naturally bred 

 in our forests ; of all quadrupeds the wild cat is, perhaps, 

 that whose intestines are proportionably the smallest and the 

 shortest; and why ; common to the new continent, as well 

 as the old ; the blue cat ; the lion cat, or more properly, the 

 cat of Angora ; the cats in Syria and Persia remarkable for 

 their long soft hair, ii. 386. All the cat kind are kept off 

 by the fires which the inhabitants light to preserve their 

 herds and flocks ; and they hunt rather by the sight than 

 the smell ; it happens that the lion pursues the jackall or the 

 wild dog, while they are hunting upon the scent, and merely 

 for themselves ; the lion is then an unwelcome intruder upon 

 the fruits of their toil ; from thence probably has arisen the 

 story of the lion's provider ; the lion devours a great deal at 

 a time, and generally fills himself for two or three days to 

 come ; in the deserts and forests, his most usual prey are 

 the gazelles and the monkeys, 406. The race of cats noxious 

 in proportion to their power to do mischief; inhabit the 

 most torrid latitudes of India, Africa, and America, and 

 have never been able to multiply beyond the torrid zone ; 

 they seldom attack man, though provoked ; of all animals 

 these are the most sullen, and, to a proverb, untameable, 

 435. Different classes of the kind, from the lion to the cat, 

 442. The wild cat and the martin seldom meet without a 

 combat ; it is not a match for the martin, iii. 85. The cat 

 of Pharaoh injudiciously called the ichneumon, 90. Cats of 

 Constantinople, a name of the genette, and why, 100. 



Cattle, we have the best breed of horned cattle in Europe ; 

 the large hornless breed in some parts of England, originally 

 from Poland, ii. 231. The Dutch bring great quantities of 

 lean cattle from Denmark, to fatten on their own rich 

 grounds ; that of the Ukraine becomes fat, and is considered 

 the largest breed of all Europe ; in Switzerland these ani- 

 mals grow to a large size ; not so in France, 237. Size in 

 Barbary, Ethiopia, Persia, and Tartary, 238. Leather- 

 mouthed cattle, 260. Liable to be destroyed by the South 

 American bat-vampyre, iii. 242. 



Caverns, the amazing cavern of Elden-hole in Derbyshire ; the 

 dreadful cavern in the country of the Arrian Indians, called 

 the Gulf of Pluto, described by ^lian; cavern of Maes- 

 tricht; its description; no part of the world has a greater 

 number of artificial caverns than Spain ; in general deserted 

 by every race of meaner animals, except the bat ; the ca- 

 verns called Oakley-hole, the Devil's-hole, and Penpark- 

 hole, in England ; the cavern of Antiparos, and its disco- 

 very, i. 55. How natural caverns formed ; two hundred fe.et 



