INDEX. 273 



Mahometans, 128. Of the paca, considered a great deli- 

 cacy, 166. Of the tendrac, thought by the Indians a great 

 delicacy, 210. Of the pangolin, considered a very great 

 delicacy by the negroes of Africa, 222. Of the armadilla, 

 or tatou, said to be delicate eating, 229. Of the seal, for- 

 merly found place at the tables of the great, 270. Of the 

 monkey, liked by the negroes, 308. Of the ostrich, pro- 

 scribed in Scripture, unfit to be eaten, iv. 44. Of the emu, 

 or the American ostrich, good to be eaten, 54. Of the 

 dodo, good and wholesome eating, 62. Of the vulture, 

 falcon, and osprey, when young, excellent food, according 

 to Bellonius ; that of carnivorous birds stringy and ill-tasted, 

 soon corrupted, and tinctured with that animal food upon 

 which they subsist, 68. Of the bird condor, as disagree- 

 able as carrion, 84. Of the peacock, keeps longer unpu- 

 trefied than of any other animal, 140. Of the pheasant, 

 considered as the greatest dainty, 149. Of the quail, a 

 very great delicacy, 172. That of the partridge, so valued 

 by the French, according to Willoughby, that no feast could 

 be complete without it, 166. Of the toucan, tender and 

 nourishing, 196. Of young herons, in particular estimation 

 in France, 321. Of the bittern, greatly esteemed among 

 the luxurious, 325. Of the puffin, formerly by the church 

 allowed on lenten days, 401. Of fishes, yields little nourish- 

 ment, v. 25. Of the young porpoise, said to be as well 

 tasted as veal, 61- Of the shark, is hardly digestible by 

 any but negroes, who are fond of it to distraction, 74. Of 

 the turtle, is become a branch of commerce, 192. That of 

 some crabs is poisonous, 174. Of the great Mediterranean 

 turtle sometimes poisonous, 188. 



Flies torment the elephant unceasingly ; arts the elephant tries 

 to keep them off, iii. 342. Dragon-fly, or the libella, vi. 2. 

 Common water-fly, swims on its back, 38. The cornea so 

 adapted by Puget, as to see objects through it with a micro- 

 scope ; strangeness of its representations ; does the fly see 

 objects singly, as with one eye, or is every facet a complete 

 eye, exhibiting its object distinct from the rest? 72. The 

 Spanish-fly, vi. 157. See Cantharides. 



Flint-shire, in a lead-mine there, two great grinding teeth, and 

 part of the tusk of an elephant, discovered at the depth of 

 forty-two yards, iii. 356. . 



Flounder, known to produce, in one season, above one million 

 of eggs, v. 22. 



Fluids, ascending in vessels emptied of air ; rising in capillary 

 tubes, and how this comes to pass, i. 165. 



Flumide, or Pleuronectes, description of this fish, v. 124. 



Flux of the sea, i. 215. Not equal in the Strait of Magellan, 

 223, 



Fly-catcher, bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 257. 

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