INDEX. 291 



Hogs, animals of this kind resemble those of the horse as well 

 as the cow kind, and in what ; this kind partakes of the 

 rapacious and the peaceful kinds ; offend no animal of the 

 forest; remarkable that none of this kind ever shed their 

 teeth ; any animal dying in the forest, or so wounded as to 

 make no resistance, is the prey of the hog, who refuses no 

 animal food, however putrid ; in a state of wildness, most 

 delicate in the choice of its vegetables; rejects a greater 

 number than any other ; they eat but seventy-two plants 

 and reject one hundred and seventy ; indelicacy of this ani- 

 mal more in our apprehensions than in its nature, and why ; 

 in orchards of peach-trees, in North America, reject the 

 fruit that has lain a few hours on the ground, and watch 

 hours for a fresh windfall ; have had mice burrowing in 

 their backs, while fattening in the sty, without seeming to 

 perceive it; scent the hounds at a distance; by nature 

 stupid, inactive, and drowsy ; has passions more active only 

 when excited to venery, or when the wind blows with vehe- 

 mence ; foresees the approach of bad weather ; much agitat- 

 ed on hearing any of its kind in distress ; have often ga- 

 thered round a dog that teased them, and killed him upon 

 the spot ; their various diseases ; generally live, when permit- 

 ted, -to eighteen or twenty years ; the females produce to 

 the age of fifteen ; in the wild state less prolific, ii. 364, &c. 



Hog (Guinea), and that about Upsal, described, ii. 373. 



Hog (water). See Capibara, ii. 379. 



Hog of Borneo. See Babyrouessa, ii. 382. 



Hog of the Isthmus of Darien, described by Wafer, ii. 385. 



Holland, a conquest from the sea, and rescued from its bosom ; 

 the surface of its earth below the level of the bottom of the 

 sea; upon approaching the coast, it is looked down upon 

 from the sea, as into a valley ; is every day rising higher, 

 and by what means ; those parts, which formerly admitted 

 large men of war, are now too shallow to receive ships of 

 moderate burden, i. 237. 



Honey, from what part of the flower it is extracted, vi. 101. 

 Two kinds of it ; which to be preferred, 113. That gather- 

 ed by the humble-bees not so fine nor so good as that of 

 the common bees, 114s Gathered by the black bees in the 

 tropical climates, neither so unpalatable nor so surfeiting as 

 ours ; produced by the bees at Guadaloupe, never congeals, 

 remains fluid, of the consistence of oil, with the colour of 

 amber, 113. 



Honey-comb, name of the second stomach of ruminating ani- 

 mals, ii. 223. 



Honey-guide, a kind of cuckoo, iv. 219. 



Hoof of the Persian mares so hard that shoeing is unnecessary, 

 ii. 187. 



