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drawing of an animal, taken from life, is the best method of 

 advancing natural history, 149. 



Mew, said of stags when they cast their heads, ii. 317. 

 Mico, the least and most beautiful monkey of the sagoin kind : 



its description by M. La Condamine, iii. 319. 

 Microscope increases the magnitude of an object, and that of 

 its motion also, i. 362. The pupil and humours of the eye 

 of the mole discovered by it, iii. 198. 



Migrating fishes, the herring and the pilchard take the most 

 adventurous voyages : stated returns, and regular progress 

 of the migrating fishes, one of the most extraordinary cir- 

 cumstances in the history of nature, v. 136. 

 Migration, causes of migrations of birds : in what manner 

 they perform them : at what times: rather follow weather 

 than country, and go on as they perceive the atmosphere 

 more suitable to their wants and dispositions : migration of 

 some swallows, and retreat of others into old walls, to avoid 

 the rigour of winter, wrap this subject in great obscurity, 

 iv. 26. Of bees, several signs previous to it, vi. 107. 

 Milk, infants have it in their own breasts, i. 394-. Some- 

 times found in the breasts of men, as well as in those of 

 women, 429. In carnivorous animals more sparing than 

 in others, ii. 173. Of goats, medicinal, and not apt to 

 curdle upon the stomach, as that of the cows, 268. Of the 

 rein-deer, thinner than that of the cow, but sweeter, and 

 more nourishing, 354. Boiled up with wood-sorrel by the 

 Laplanders, kept in casks under ground, to be eaten in 

 winter, 360. Injected into a vein, kills with more certainty 

 than the venom of a viper, v. 357. 

 Millipedes multiplied by being cut in pieces, i. 365. 

 Milo, an instance of his strength, i. 441. 

 Milton makes Satan personate the cormorant, a most nauseous 

 bird: objection against him on this account: his vindica- 

 tion, iv. 371. 



Minerals, mere inactive and insensible bodies, i. 349. 

 Miners first become paralytic, then die consumptive, for the 

 trifling reward of sevenpence a-day, i. 70. Peculiar con- 

 trivance to supply light for their operations : make use only 

 of wooden instruments in digging, and take out the nails 

 from their shoes, before they enter the mine, 73. 

 Mines, that at Cotteburg in Hungary three thousand feet 

 deep, i. 47. A coal-mine in the North of England said to 

 be eleven hundred yards deep, 66. Air different in them, 

 proportionably as the magazines of fire lay nearer the centre: 

 other causes of this difference : Mendip lead-mines in So- 

 mersetshire : their description : mines of coal generally 

 less noxious than those of tin, tin than those of copper, 

 but none are so dreadfully destructive as those of quick- 

 silver : deplorable infirmities of workmen in the mines near 



