INDEX. 



Cormorant, its description and food : remarkably voracious, 

 with a sudden digestion : its form disagreeable : its voice 

 hoarse and croaking : all its qualities obscene : no wonder 

 Milton makes Satan personate this bird: objection against 

 this passage of Milton's Paradise Lost vindicated : fishes in 

 fresh waters, and in the depths of the ocean : builds in cliffs 

 of rocks, and in trees : preys in the day-time, and by night : 

 once used in England for fishing, and in what manner: how 

 educated in China, for the purposes of fishing : the best 

 fisher of all birds : sometimes has caught the fish by the 

 tail : the fins prevent its being swallowed in that position : 

 how it manages the fish in this case, iv. 370. Remarked for 

 the quickness of its sight, 378. 



Cornaro lived a hundred years, with a constitution naturally 

 feeble, ii. 64-. 



Coromandel, amazing size of oysters along that coast, v. 239. 



Corrira, or the Runner, a bird of the crane kind, its descrip- 

 tion, iv. 337. 



Corruption, excessive cold preserves bodies from it, and a 

 great degree of dryness produced by heat : earth, if drying 

 and astringent, produces the same effect : bodies never cor- 

 rupt at Spitzbergen, though buried for thirty years : men and 

 animals buried in the sands of Arabia preserved from corrup- 

 tion for ages, as if actually embalmed : bodies buried in the 

 monastery of the Cordeliers at Thoulouse, preserved from 

 corruption: bodies previously embalmed, buried in the sands 

 of Chorosan, in Persia, preserved from corruption for a 

 thousand years, ii. 123. Amazing preservation from it in 

 a mummy lately dug up in France, 1 30. 



Coryphaena, the razor-fish, its description, v. 120. 



Cotopaxi, volcano in South America, described by Ulloa, i. 

 87. More than three geographical miles above the surface 

 of the sea, 130. 



Cotton-tree, the seed intoxicates parrots, as wine does man, 

 iv. 230. 



Cottus, the bull-head : description of this fish, v. 121. 



Couando, much less than the porcupine : its description, iii. 

 216. 



Cougar, the red tiger, by M. Buffon : extremely common in 

 South America : in what manner the Indians encounter it, 

 ii. 4-23. Resembles the tiger in natural ferocity, though 

 far inferior in its dimensions, iii. 393. 



Coulterneb, remarkable bird of the Penguin kind. See Puffin, 

 iv. 397. 



Cows allured by music, ii. 39. Of ruminant animals, the cow 

 kind deserves the first rank : meanest peasants in Germany, 

 Poland, and Switzerland, kill one cow at least for their own 

 table : salted and hung up, is preserved as a delicacy the 



