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matter to account for warmth of furs of northern quadru- 

 peds, or how they come to have such abundant covering ; 

 particulars on this subject, 73. White weasel, found in 

 Great Britain, of no value ; ermine, in every country changes 

 by time, 76. Of the pole-cat, in less estimation than some 

 of inferior kinds, 82. Of the yellow-breasted martin, more 

 valuable and beautiful than the white, 84. Different colours 

 of the sable, 88. Of the genette, valuable, 101. Of the 

 civet, impregnated with the perfume, 104>. Of the glutton, 

 has the most beautiful lustre, and is preferred to all, except 

 the Siberian sable, 113. Of the hare, forms a considerable 

 article in the hat manufacture, 126. Of the cricetus, or 

 German rat, very valuable, 191. Inside down of the vul- 

 ture's wing makes a warm and comfortable kind of fur, iv. 

 90. 



Gad-fly, ii. 352. 



Gadus, the cod-fish, its description, v. 124. 



Gall of the shammois held useful to strengthen the sight, ii. 

 279. The deer kind have none, 301. 



Gall-nuts, description of the insect forming and residing in 

 them, and its transformations, vi. 162. 



Galley-fish, its description ; its legs adhesive ; common in 

 America, perpetually floating ; no efforts made to hurt can 

 make it sink ; never perceived to move on shore, so strongly 

 adhering to whatever substances applied ; the smallest quan- 

 tity of slimy substance from its legs burns the skin like hot 

 oil ; the shore covered with them a fore-runner of a storm, 

 v. 111. 



Galley-worm, its difference from the scolopendra, v. 435. 



Ganges, a river visited annually by a hundred thousand pil- 

 grims, who pay their devotions to it as to God, i. 181. In 

 its course receives twenty rivers, 188. 



Gannet, the Soland goose, its description; subsists upon fish ; 

 places abounding with them ; manner of preserving them 

 and their eggs, in the island of St Kilda; twenty-three 

 thousand of this kind of young bird consumed annually 

 there ; a bird of passage ; its migrations ; never comes near 

 the land; where seen, it announces the arrival of herrings; 

 exceeds the cormorant in quickness of sight; method of 

 taking its prey ; manner of taking them at sea ; number of 

 their eggs; the young counted a great dainty, and sold 

 very dear, iv. 375. 



Garter-fish, the lipidopus, its description, v. 125. 



Gasterosteus, or the Stickleback, description of this fish, v. 

 122. 



