278 INDEX. 



100. Unctuous in birds, to preserve their feathers, iv. 4. 

 Salivary in the gullet and crop of birds, 13. 



Glitters, little impressions so called in the heads of stags, ii. 

 317. 



Globe of fire rising from the side of the mountain Pichinca ; 

 a great one seen at Bononia, in Italy, in the year 1676 ; 

 passed westward at a rate of a hundred and sixty miles in 

 a minute ; could not be less than a mile long, and half a 

 mile broad, i. 323. 



Globe of glass, filted with water, assumes successively all the 

 colours of the rainbow, i. 327- 



Gloucester, its corporation had an old custom annually to 

 present the king with a lamprey pie, v. 95. 



Glow-worm, male and female of this species differ entirely 

 from each other ; how and in what manner light sent forth 

 by the glow-worm is produced, hitherto inexplicable ; the 

 light continues to grow paler, and at last is totally extinct, 

 if the worm be kept for some time, vi. 156. 



Glue, made of the horns of the rein-deer, ii. 361. Mr Jack- 

 son found out a method of making glue to answer the pur- 

 poses of isinglass, v. 103. 



Glutton, the most dangerous and most successful persecutor 

 of the rein-deer ; its manner of killing that deer, ii. 363. Be- 

 longs to the weasel kind ; there is no precise description of 

 it ; some resembling it to a badger, some to a fox, others 

 to a hyaena ; one brought alive from Siberia was three feet 

 long, and about a foot and a half high ; so called from its 

 voracious appetite ; countries where found ; called carcajou 

 in North America ; general description ; Ray and others 

 doubt of its existence ; takes its prey by surprise, and in 

 what manner ; darts down from branches of trees upon the 

 elk, or the rein-deer, sticks its claws between their shoul- 

 ders, and remains there firm, eating their necks, and dig- 

 ging to the great blood-vessels that lie in that part ; amaz- 

 ing quantity one of these animals can eat at a time ; that 

 seen by Mr Klein, without exercise or air, taken from its 

 native climate, and enjoying but indifferent health, eat 

 thirteen pounds of flesh every day, and was not satisfied ; 

 it continues eating and sleeping, till its prey, bones and all, 

 be devoured ; prefers putrid flesh to that newly killed ; it 

 is so slow, that any quadruped can escape it, except the 

 beaver ; pursues it upon land ; but the beaver taking water, 

 the glutton has no chance to succeed ; called the vulture 

 of the quadrupeds ; in what manner it makes up by strata- 

 gem the defects of nature ; the female goes with young 

 four months, and brings forth two or three ; the male and 

 female equally resolute in defence of their young; is diffi- 

 cult to be skinned ; does not fear man ; is a solitary animal, 

 and never in company but with its female ; couples in the 



