INDEX. 251 



flowing into the Mediterranean Sea : current runs'one way 

 at top, and the ebb another way at bottom, 223. 



Current of air, driven through a contracted space, grows more 

 violent and irresistible, i. 302. 



Cusco, Garcilasso de la Vega, asserts, the air is so dry and 

 so cold there, that flesh dries like wood, without corrupting, 

 ii. 122. 



Cuttle-fish, its description : contrivance with which it is fur- 

 nished by nature, when under a difficulty of escaping, vi. 

 183. 



Cybotus, a lofty mountain swallowed by an earthquake, i. 

 14-0. 



Cynocephalus, the Magot of Buffon, the last of the ape kind : 

 its description : is a native of Africa and the East, iii. 294. 



Cyprinus, or the carp, v. 126. 



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Dam, in the rapacious kinds, leads her young forth for months 

 together ; it is not so with those of the hare kind, iii. 121. 



Dampier, the celebrated navigator, has added more to natural 

 history than half the philosophers before him ; the first who 

 informed us of the distinctions between such turtles as are 

 malignant and such as are wholesome ; saw one at Jamaica 

 that measured six feet broad, v. 191. His curious observa- 

 tions on the winds in warm climates, i. 297. Observes the 

 flamingos, when seen in the day, always appear drawn up 

 in a long close line of two or three hundred together, and 

 present, at the distance of half a mile, the exact represen- 

 tation of a long brick wall ; they always appoint one of the 

 number as a watch, iv. 332. Says their flesh is well tasted, 

 334. 



Damps of various natures in mines ; the fulminating sort, i. 

 65. 



Dancer, a dog of the mongrel kind, iii. 18. 



Dane, the tallest dog bred in England, iii. 18. 



Danish dog, descended from the mastiff, iii. 13. 



Dara, its inhabitants use ostriches as horses, iv. 50. 



Darien, an isthmus, has a particular hog, called waree ; de- 

 scribed by Wafer, ii. 385. 



Darkness, surprising how far the eye accommodates itself to 

 it; remarkable instance of it in a gentleman, a major under 

 Charles the First, ii. 32. 



Deaf men often found to see the force of those reasonings 

 which they could not hear, understanding every word as it 

 was spoken, i. 419. One born deaf must necessarily be 

 dumb ; instances of two young men, who, born deaf, were 

 restored to hearing ; a person born deaf, by time and pains, 



