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Charybdis, a gulf; Nicola Pesce jumped into it, continued for 

 three quarters of an hour below, and at last appeared hold- 

 ing a golden cup in one hand, and making his way among 

 the waves with the other ; description of this gulf, i. 253. 



Chase, men of every age and nation have made that of the 

 stag a favourite pursuit ; in our country it was ever esteem- 

 ed a principal diversion of the great, ii. 313. These sports 

 reserved by sovereigns for particular amusement, and when ; 

 in the reigns of William Rufus and Henry the First, it was 

 less criminal to destroy a human being than a beast of 

 chase ; sacred edifices thrown down for room for beasts of 

 chase ; chase of the stag as performed in England ; terms 

 used by hunters in that chase ; the same in Sicily, and in 

 China, 314. Chase of the fox; cant terms used by the 

 huntsmen in it, iii. 49. Of all varieties, that of the ostrich 

 the most laborious, is also the most entertaining ; descrip- 

 tion of it, iv. 49. 



Chasms, amazing in the Alps, and still more in the Andes ; 

 causes that produce chasms or fissures, i. 54. 



Chaetodon, or the cat-fish, its description, v. 121. 



Chatterer, a bird, native of Germany ; its description, iv. 192. 



Cheese, the inhabitants of Canada use no other than the milk 

 of the hind, or the female of the stag, ii. 326. Those of 

 Lapland little and well tasted ; never breed mites, 360. 



Cheops, the oldest measure of the human figure in his monu- 

 ment, in the first pyramid of Egypt, ii. 115. 



Cheselden, after couching a boy of thirteen for a cataract, 

 blind from his infancy, and at once restoring him to sight, 

 curiously marked the progress of his mind upon the occa- 

 sion, ii. 25. 



Chevrotin, or little Guinea deer, the least of all cloven-footed 

 quadrupeds, and perhaps the most beautiful ; is most deli- 

 cately shaped; its description; native of India, Guinea, and 

 the warm climates between the tropics ; the male in Guinea 

 has horns, but the female is without any; they chiefly 

 abound in Java and Ceylon, ii. 290. 



Chicken, an amazing history of it in the egg, by Malpighi and 

 H-aller, i. 365. In what manner six or seven thousand are 

 produced at a time at Grand Cairo ; capons clutch a fresh 

 brood of chickens throughout the year, iv. 135. 



Child, history of the child in the womb, i. 378. Children of 

 Negroes able to walk at two months old, at least to move 

 from one place to another; skin of children newly brought 

 forth, is always red, and why ; the size of a new-born in- 

 fant about twenty inches, and its weight twelve pounds ; in 

 cold countries continue to be suckled for four or five years 

 together ; child's growth less every year, till the time of 

 puberty, when it seems to start up of a sudden ; in some 

 countries speak sooner than in others, and why ; children 



