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taught to write, read, speak, and, by the motion of the lips, 

 to understand what is said ; instances of it, ii. 43. 



Deafness, one of the most common disorders in old age ; way 

 to know this defect, either internal or external, ii. 42. 



Death, a young man born deaf and dumb, knew nothing of 

 death, and never thought of it till the age of twenty-four, 

 when he began to speak of a sudden, ii. 4-4-. A spectre 

 which frights us at a distance, but disappears when we come 

 to approach it ; uncertainty of the signs of death, 69. 



Deer, annually shedding horns, and their permanence in the 

 sheep, draws a distinct line between their kinds, ii. 252. 

 The little Guinea-deer, the least of all cloven-footed quad- 

 rupeds, and most beautiful, its description, 290. All of 

 the deer kind want the gall-bladder, 301. A downy sub- 

 stance like velvet upon the skin covering the skull of a deer, 

 when the old horn is fallen off, 303. Their horns grow dif- 

 ferently from those of sheep or cows ; they are furrowed 

 along the sides, and why, 303. The bran deer or the 

 brown deer, called by the ancients tragelaphus, found in 

 the forests of Germany, 324. The new continent of Ame- 

 rica produces animals of the deer kind in sufficient plenty, 

 325. 



Deer (/allow) no animals more nearly allied than the stag and 

 fallow-deer, yet they never herd nor engender together, nor 

 form a mixed breed ; each form distinct families, and retain 

 an unalterable aversion ; the fallow-deer rarely wild in the 

 forests ; are in general bred in parks, and their flesh is pre- 

 ferred to that of any other animal ; a herd of them divides 

 into two parties, and engage each other with great ardour 

 and obstinacy ; both desirous of gaining a favourite spot of 

 the park for pasture, and of driving the vanquished into the 

 more disagreeable parts ; manner of their combats : are 

 easily tamed, and browse closer than the stag : they seek 

 the female at the second year : their strength, cunning, and 

 courage inferior to those of the stag : we have in England 

 two varieties of the fallow-deer: one brought from Bengal, 

 the other from Norway ; flesh of the French fallow-deer 

 has not the fatness nor the flavour of that fed upon English 

 pasture : Spanish and Virginian fallow-deer : deer without 

 horns, their description, ii. 326, &c. 



Deer (rein) the most extraordinary, and most useful ; native 

 of the icy regions of the north : it answers the purposes of 

 a horse : attempts made to accustom it to a more southern 

 climate : in a few months it declines and dies : answers the 

 purposes of a cow in giving milk, and of the sheep in 

 furnishing warm clothing to the people of Lapland and 

 Greenland: description of the rein-deer: its rutting time, 

 and that of shedding its horns : difference between this deer 

 and the stag : it is not known to the natives of Siberia : 



