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Dwarf, in England, as late as the time of King James the 

 First, the court was furnished with one ; and he was called 

 Jittle JefFery ; Peter of Russia celebrated a marriage of 

 dwarfs, ii. 105. They seem to have faculties resembling 

 those of children ; history of a dwarf accurately related by 

 M. Daubenton, 107. 



Eagle kind, the flap of an eagle's wing known to lay a man 

 dead in an instant, iv. 7. It flies at the bustard or the phea* 

 sant, 66. Distinctive marks from the other kinds of carni- 

 vorous birds, 69, 77. The golden eagle is the largest and 

 noblest of all those birds designed by the name of eagle ; 

 its description ; considered among birds as the lion among 

 quadrupeds ; strong similitude to each other ; great patience, 

 and much art, required to tame an eagle; though taken 

 young, and brought under by long assiduity, yet it is a dan- 

 gerous domestic, and often turns its force against its mas- 

 ter ; sometimes has an attachment for its feeder ; it is then 

 serviceable, and will provide for his pleasures and support ; 

 flies the highest of all birds, and from thence has by the 

 ancients been called the bird of Heaven ; it has also the 

 quickest eye, but its sense of smelling is far inferior to that 

 of the vulture ; it never pursues but in sight ; finds difficulty 

 in rising when down ; carries away geese, cranes, hares, 

 lambs, and kids, and often destroys fawns and calves, to 

 drink their blood, and carries a part of their flesh to its 

 retreat ; infants, when left unattended, have been destroyed 

 by these rapacious creatures ; the eagle is peculiarly formi- 

 dable when bringing up its young ; a poor man got a com- 

 fortable subsistence for his family, during a summer of 

 famine, out of an eagle's nest, by robbing the eaglets of 

 food ; eagles killed a peasant who had robbed their nests ; 

 \there is a law in the Orkney Islands, which entitles any 

 person that kills an eagle to a hen out of every house in the 

 parish in which the plunderer is killed ; the nest of the eagle 

 is usually built in the most inaccesible cliff of the rock ; de- 

 scription of one found in the Peak of Derbyshire ; it hatches 

 its eggs for thirty days ; very rare to find three eaglets in 

 the same nest ; and it is asserted, that the mother kills the 

 most feeble or the most voracious ; it is believed they live 

 above a hundred years, and that they die, not of old age, 

 but from the beaks turning inward upon the under jaw, and 

 preventing their taking any food ; an eagle endured hunger 

 for twenty-one days, without any sustenance whatever; 

 they are first white, then inclining to yellow, and at last 

 light-brown ; age, hunger, captivity, and diseases, make 



