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Americans call it caribou : herdsmen of Lapland known 

 to possess a thousand rein-deer in a single herd : it subsists 

 upon moss, and makes the riches of the people of Lap- 

 land : gnats and gad-flies very formidable to this deer in 

 Lapland : female brings forth in May : its milk thinner than 

 that of the cow : sweeter and more nourishing, ii. 34-6. Is 

 of two kinds in Lapland : it draws sledges : can go about 

 thirty miles without halting, and without dangerous effort : 

 generally castrated by the Laplanders : one male left to six 

 females : begin to breed when two years old : go with 

 young eight months, and bring two at a time : fondness of 

 the dam remarkable : live but fifteen or sixteen years : 

 manner in which the Laplanders kill them : scarce any part 

 of this animal not converted to peculiar uses : the Lap- 

 landers find their necessities supplied from the rein-deer 

 alone : in what manner : diseases of this animal : the blood 

 of the rein-deer preserved in small casks for sauce with the 

 marrow in spring : the horns converted into glue : the 

 sinews make the strongest sewing-thread : the tongue a 

 great delicacy : the intestines, washed like our tripe, in high 

 esteem among the Laplanders : bears make depredations 

 upon the rein-deer : glutton its most dangerous and suc- 

 cessful persecutor : only method of escape from this crea- 

 ture, 357. In what manner the rein-deer is killed by it, 

 363. The wolf never attacks a rein-deer that is haltered 

 in Lapland, and why, iii. 43. 



Deformity, children often inherit even the accidental defor- 

 mities of their parents : instances of it : accidental defor- 

 mities become natural by assiduity continued and increased 

 through successive generations, ii. 95. All those changes 

 the African, the Asiatic, or the American undergo, in their 

 colour, are accidental deformities, probably to be removed, 

 97. 



Demoiselle, name given by the French to the Numidian bird, 

 iv. 314. 



Depona, a large serpent, native of Mexico, v. 379. 



Desman, one of the three distinctions of the musk rat: a na- 

 tive of Lapland, iii. 179. 



Devil (sea) or fishing-frog, described, v. 105. 



Dew compensates the want of showers in Egypt, i. 304-. 



Dewlap ; of two zebras, seen by the author, the skin hung 

 loose below the jaw upon the neck, in a kind of dewlap, 

 ii. 221. The cow wants in udder what it has in neck, and 

 the larger the dewlap the smaller the quantity of its milk, 

 233. 



Diableret, a mountain in France suddenly fallen down ; its 

 ruins covered an extent of a league square, i. 135. 



Dictionaries of Arts and Sciences, a fault that has infected 

 most of them, ii. 149. 



