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performed ; the male or female never survive the winter ; 

 their eggs ; from first appearing, possessed of wings ; how it 

 gets rid of the outer skin ; their food ; places where they 

 deposit their eggs, vi. 14. 



Grave, the greatest car& recommended not to commit those 

 dearest to us to the grave, before real signs of certain death 

 be ascertained, ii. 72. 



Grebe, description of this bird ; residence, and habits ; per- 

 petually diving, and very difficult to be shot ; never seen 

 on land ; chiefly sought for the skin of its breast, and why ; 

 in breeding-time their breasts are bare, iv. 353. 



G reenfinch, bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. 



Greenland, Crantz's account of the formation of ice-moun- 

 tains in that country, i. 209. Aurora borealis, its appear- 

 ance almost constant in winter ; the inhabitants not entirely 

 forsaken in the midst of their tedious night, this aurora 

 affording them light for the purposes of existence, 329 ; 

 they live mostly upon seals ; their number daily diminish- 

 ing, and why, iii. 272. 



Greenlanders described, ii. 72. Customary among them to 

 turn Europeans into ridicule ; a quiet, or a modest stran- 

 ger, they deem almost as well-bred as a Greenlander, 77- 



Greenshank, a kind of crane, iv. 34-0. 



Greta, river in Yorkshire running under ground, and rising 

 again, i. 194. 



Greyhound kind, iii. 16. Greyhound-fox, 53. 



Grosbeak, bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. 



Grotto of Antiparos, in the Archipelago, the most remarkable 

 subterraneous cavern now known ; description, i. 60. 



Grotto del Cane, near Naples, situation and description ; 

 noxious effects, i. 75. 



Grouse, chiefly found in heathy mountains, and piny forests, 

 iv. 161. 



Growth of the child less every year, till the time of puberty, 

 when it starts up of a sudden ; growth of the mind in chil- 

 dren corresponds with that of the body, and why, i. 396. 

 Of some young people ceases at fourteen, or fifteen ; in 

 others continues till two or three-and-twenty, 410. Of fishes, 

 irregular and tardy, v. 146. 



Guanacoes, a kind of camel in America, iii. 382. 



Guanches, ancient inhabitants of the island of Teneriffe; art 

 of embalming still preserved among them when the Spa- 

 niards conquered the island, ii. 121. 



Guariba, Brasilian guariba or warine, the largest of the mon- 

 key kind in America, described, iii. 318. 



Gudgeon, description of that fish, v. 120. 



Guiba, animal resembling the gazelle ; its description, ii. 289. 



Guillemot, bird of the smaller tribe of the penguin kind, iv. 

 397. 



