304 INDEX. 



the months of March, April, and May; are usually taken 

 in nets with salmon ; sometimes in baskets at the bottom of 

 the river; old custom for the city of Gloucester annually 

 to present the King with a lamprey-pie ; a senator of Rome 

 used to throw into his ponds such of his slaves as displeas- 

 ed him, to feed the lampreys, v. 91. 



Lands, new, produced from the sea, and in what manner, i. 

 236. 



Lanner, bird of the generous breed of hawks, now little known 

 in Europe, iv. 100. 



Lanthorn-fly, emits a strong phosphorescent light in the dark, 

 vi. 33. 



Lap-dog described, iii. 17. 



Laplanders, one of the first distinct race of men round the 

 polar regions ; descriptions of their persons and manners ; 

 have in every family a drum for consulting the devil ; Gus- 

 tavus Adolphus attempted in vain to form a regiment of 

 Laplanders ; use skaits to run and slide, and how ; all are 

 hunters; offer their wives and daughters to strangers, ii. 74. 



Lapwing, a small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. Its arts to 

 lead off men and dogs from their nests, 34-8. 



Lark, bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. The sky, the wood, 

 or the tit-lark, distinguishable from other little birds, by 

 length of heel and loud song ; nest, number of eggs, and 

 habits, 270. Those that remain with us the year through- 

 out, are birds of passage in Sweden, 258. 



Lark (sea), a small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. Breeds 

 in this country, 34-5. 



Lava, matter discharged by the eruptions of volcanoes, i. 90. 



Laughter, in what manner produced, i. 421. 



Launce, description of this fish, v. 124. 



Layer, the impression on the place where the stag has lain, 

 ii. 317. 



Layers of the earth regularly disposed, but not of the same 

 kind in every place ; enumeration of layers of earth in a 

 well dug at Amsterdam, and of another dug at Marley ; a 

 layer, as far as it extends, always maintains the same thick- 

 ness ; proceeding to considerable depths, every layer is 

 thicker ; are sometimes very extensive, and often found to 

 spread over a space of some leagues in circumference, i. 

 52. Remarkable layers of earth round the city of Modena, 

 241. 



Leather, called shammoy, made of the skin of that animal, 

 and also from those of the tame goat, the sheep, and the 

 deer, ii. 279. 



Leaves, two of a fig-tree, by experiment, imbibed from the 

 earth two ounces of water in five hours and a half, i. 168. 



Leech, different kinds ; its description ; takes a large quantity 

 of food ; has no anus or passage to eject it from the body 



