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them whiter ; those kept tame are fed with every kind of 

 flesh, fresh or corrupting ; and upon a deficiency of that, 

 bread, or any other provision, will suffice ; it is dangerous 

 approaching them, if not quite tame ; and they sometimes 

 send forth a loud, piercing, lamentable cry, which renders 

 * them still more formidable ; they drink but seldom, and 

 perhaps, when at liberty, not at all ; the bald eagle an in- 

 habitant of North Carolina ; breeds in that country all the 

 year round ; manner in which the eggs are hatched ; cha- 

 racteristics and habitudes of this animal ; its nest is large 

 enough to fill the body of a cart, and commonly full of 

 bones half eaten, and putrid flesh, the stench of which is 

 intolerable, iv. 69, &c. 



Eagle, the sea eagle called aquila piombina by the Italians ; 

 they often lay three or four eggs, of a less size than those 

 of a hen ; of a white eliptical form ; distinctive marks of 

 the golden eagle, of the common eagle, of the bald eagle, of 

 the 'white eagle, of the rough-footed eagle, of the 'white-tailed 

 eagle, of the erne, of the black eagle, of the sea eagle, of 

 the osprey, of the jean le blanc, of the Brasil eagle, of the 

 OroonoTco eagle, of the croivned African eagle, of the eagle of 

 Pondicherry, iv. 76. 



Ears, distinguishing features in quadrupeds ; serve in them as 

 principal marks of the passions; smallest ears in men 

 said to be most beautiful ; the largest the best for hearing ; 

 some savage nations bore their ears, and draw that part 

 down, till the tip of the ears rests upon the shoulder, i. 4-23. 

 Undulations, which strike the ear, supposed but one con- 

 tinued sound, by their quick successions, though in reality 

 they make many, ii. 34. Persons hear differently with one 

 ear from the other ; these have what musicians call a bad 

 ear; and, as hearing false, also sing false; such persons 

 also deceived as to the side whence the sound comes, 42. 

 From what cause the small ears of the Tartars and Chinese, 

 95. Those of the hare moveable, and capable of direction 

 to every quarter, iii. 119. Birds have not the external ear 

 standing out from the head ; probably the feathers encom- 

 passing the ear-holes supply the defect of the exterior ear, 

 iv.9. 



Earth, its globe a million of times less than the sun, i. 2. 

 Placed at a happy middle distance from the centre in our 

 solar system ; less distant from the sun than Saturn, Jupiter, 

 and Mars, and less parched up than Venus and Mercury, 

 situated too near the violence of its power ; the earth, like 

 a chariot wheel, has a compound motion; its rotundity 

 proved ; is rather flatted at the poles, and its form resembles 

 that of a turnip, 8. Considered as one scene of extensive 

 desolation, 17. Supposed by BufFon a globe of glass; by 

 Whiston a sphere of heated iron; by Kircher one dreadful 



