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fume than rnusk : sold in Holland for fifty shillings an ounce : 

 its eyes shine in the night: sees better in the dark than by 

 day: breeds very fast in climates where heat conduces to 

 propagation : thought a wild fierce animal, never thoroughly 

 familiar: lives by prey, birds, and animals it can overcome: 

 its claws feeble and inflexible : this perfume quite discon- 

 tinued in prescriptions, iii. 101, &c. 



Clavicles, or collar-bones, what animals have them : M. Buffon 

 says, none but monkeys: this is an oversight, i. 4<29. 



Climates, calamities in those where air is condensed by cold, 

 i. 278. Cause obvious, and sufficient to produce blackness 

 of Negroes : complexions of different countries darken in 

 proportion to the heat of the region, ii. 90. Next to human 

 influence, the climate has the strongest effects upon the 

 nature and form of quadrupeds, 166. 



Clove trees cut down by the Dutch at Ternate to raise the 

 price of the spice : soon had reason to repent of their avarice, 

 i. 277. 



Clouds, the fore-runners of a terrible hurricane, called by 

 sailors the bull's-eye, i. 306. Dashing against each other, 

 produces electrical fire : water evaporates, and rising forms 

 clouds : theory upon it : that of Dr Hamilton : the author's 

 theory of evaporation, 312. At once pour down their con- 

 tents," and produce a deluge: reflecting back images of 

 things on earth, like mirrors, 321. 



Clupea, or herring, its description, v. 126. 



Coaiti, a monkey of the new continent, described, iii. 318. 



Coatimondi, extreme length of its snout : its description : very 

 subject to eat its own tail : its habits, iii. 379. 



Cobitis, the loach, description of this fish, v. 126. 



Cobra di Capello, a kind of serpent, v. 370. 



Cochineal, description of this insect as in our shops, brought 

 from America: difference between the domestic and wild 

 cochineal : precautions used by those who take care of these 

 insects : the propagator has a new harvest thrice a-year : 

 various methods of killing them produce different colours 

 as brought to us : our cochineal is only the females : used 

 both for dyeing and medicine, vi. 160. 



Cock, of all birds the cock the oldest companion of man, 

 and first reclaimed from the forest : species of cock from 

 Japan, covered over with hair instead of feathers: the 

 western world had the cock from Persia: Aristophanes's 

 cock the Persian bird : it was one of the forbidden foods 

 among the ancient Britons : Persia, that first introduced 

 it to us, no longer knows it in its natural form : countries 

 where it is wild : peculiarities in a wild condition : another 

 peculiarity in those of the Indian woods, their bones, when 

 boiled, are black as ebony : the Athenians had cock-matches 

 as we : no animal of greater courage, when opposed to his 



