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of the Italians speak sooner than those of the Germans ; 

 various methods pointed out to improve the intellects of 

 children, 398. As the child increases in age, the inferior 

 parts proportionably lengthen, 433. Inherit the accidental 

 deformities of their parents ; instances of it, ii. 95. White 

 children frequently produced from black parents; but never 

 black children from two whites, 96. Many instances of the 

 child in the womb being marked by the strong affections of 

 the mother ; how performed is not known ; hard to conceive 

 that the child, in the womb, should take the print of the 

 father's features, 99. 



Chimborazo, a remarkable mountain in South America, i. 130. 



Chinese, have neither flats nor sharps in their music, ii. 37. 

 Description of that people, 81. 



Chorosan, in Persia, bodies previously embalmed and buried 

 in the sands of that country, preserved from corruption for 

 a thousand years, ii. 125. 



Chough, description of the Cornish chough, iv. 183. 



Chrysalis, or the anrelia, vi. 59. 



Chryses, an island sunk near Lemnos, i. 116. 



Circassians described, ii. 88. 



Circe, an enchantress, armed her son with a spear headed 

 with the spine of the trigon, v. 84?. 



Circulation of the blood through the bones, first accidentally 

 discovered by Mr Belcher; experiment made by him for 

 this purpose; canals for circulation of the blood through 

 the bones, of different capacities in the various stages of 

 life ; circulation through all parts of the body, ii. 59. 



Civet, the species distinguished into two kinds: M. Buffon 

 calls one the civet, the other the zibet; distinction between 

 the two kinds ; the civet thirty inches long ; both civet and 

 eibet considered as varieties of the same animal, as former 

 naturalists have done; the civet resembles the weasel kind, 

 in what; differs from them, in what; the opening of the 

 pouch, or bag, the receptacle of the civet ; manner of tak- 

 ing the civet from the pouch; although a native of the 

 warmest climates, this animal lives in temperate, and even 

 cold countries; kinds of food it likes best; drinks rarely, 

 yet makes urine often ; and, upon sucii occasions, the male 

 is not distinguished from the female ; numbers of these ani- 

 mals bred in Holland, and the perfume of Amsterdam 

 reckoned the purest of any ; the quantity greater propor- 

 tionably to the quality and abundance of the food ; this per- 

 fume so strong, that it communicates to all parts of the 

 animal's body ; to its fur and skin ; manner of choosing the 

 perfume ; the places of considerable traffic in it ; the ani- 

 mal irritated, its scent becomes greater; and tormented, its 

 sweat is still stronger, and serves to adulterate or increase 

 what otherwise obtained from it; civet a more grateful per- 

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