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wolf; dogs and wolves so different in their dispositions, 

 that no animals have a more perfect antipathy, 33. By 

 instinct, without education, dogs take care of flocks and 

 herds ; show no appetite to enjoy their victory when the 

 wolf is killed, but leave him where he falls, 35. Catesby 

 asserts the wolf was the only dog used by the Americans 

 before the Europeans came among them, and that they 

 have since procreated together ; thus proving the dog and 

 the wolf of the same species, 44. Insurmountable anti- 

 pathy between the dog and the jackall ; they never part 

 without an engagement, 58. Famished dogs more hairy 

 than those whose food has been more plentiful, 73. All 

 kinds pursue the hare by instinct, and follow it more eager- 

 ly than other animals, 119. Few dogs dare to encounter 

 the otter, 248. Some purposely trained for discovering the 

 retreat of the otter, 24-9. 



Dog butchers all over China, and shambles for selling their 

 flesh ; wherever a dog butcher appears, all the dogs of the 

 place are in full cry after him ; along the coasts of Guinea, 

 their flesh is esteemed a delicacy by the Negroes ; they give 

 a cow for a dog, iii. 24*. 



Dolphin, caught in the Red Sea, known by a ring to be the 

 same taken before in the Mediterranean, i: 226. Allured 

 by music, ii. 38. Not easy to assign a cause why the an- 

 cients have invented so many fables on the subject ; their 

 boundings in the water have taught mariners to prepare for 

 a storm ; old painters and sculptors have drawn them 

 wrong ; the poets have adopted the error ; Pliny has assert- 

 ed they instantly die when taken out of the water ; Ron- 

 delet assures us he has seen a dolphin carried alive from 

 Montpellier to Lyons ; their motions the gambols of plea- 

 sure, or the agitations of terror, not well known ; in fair 

 weather they herd together, and pursue shoals of various 

 fish with impetuosity, v. 57. 



Dolphin is also the name of the ophidium, or the gilt-head, 

 v. 119. 



Dorado, a fish of the spinous kind, the most voracious ; its 

 description ; the flying-fish is chiefly sought by it ; warfare 

 carried on between them, v. 148. 



Doree, description of this fish, v. 122. ** 



Dormouse, the mercury of the thermometer plunged into the 

 body of the living dormouse, never rose beyond its pitch in 

 air, and sometimes sunk above a degree, iii. 159. The 

 greater sort M. Buffon calls the loir, the middle size he 

 calls the lerot, and the less he denominates the muscardin ; 

 their descriptions ; agree in being stupified like the marmot 

 during winter ; their nests and provisions ; they bring forth 

 three or four young at a time but once a-year, in the 

 spring, 184-. 



