INDEX. 321 



Moschitoes, excessive torments caused by them ; houses for- 

 saken on their account, i. 127. 



Moss, the only support of the rein-deer in Lapland ; of two 

 sorts, white and black, ii. 351. 



Mother-of-pearl, taken from the pearl oyster, v. 243. 



Moths, difference from butterflies, vi. 74. All the tribe of 

 female moths lay their eggs soon after they leave the aure- 

 lia, 77. 



Motion keeps the water of the sea sweet, i. 208. Destroys 

 numbers of viler creatures, 214. Constant motion of the 

 waters of the sea westward, 223. Principal differences 

 between serpentine and vermicular motion, v. 34-2. Some 

 vegetables possessed of motion, vi. 171. And many ani- 

 mals totally without it ; in what manner animals of the 

 worm kind move, 174. 



Moufflon, the sheep in a savage state ; its description, ii. 264-. 



Mountains, rising from places once level, i. 17. Give direc- 

 tion to the courses of the air, 288. How formed, and for 

 what designed; upon our globe, considered as angles of 

 small lines in the circumference of a circle, 119. Countries 

 most mountainous, are most barren and uninhabitable, 126. 

 Some valleys are fertilized by earth washed down from great 

 heights, 141. The more extensive the mountain, the 

 greater the river, 123. Tops of the highest mountains bare 

 and pointed, and why, 133. Tops of land mountains appear 

 barren and rocky ; of sea mountains, verdant and fruitful, 

 249. The highest in Africa, those called of the moon, 

 giving source to the Niger and Nile in Africa, the greatest 

 and highest under the line, 123. Some rise three miles 

 perpendicular above the bottom of the ocean, 126. High- 

 est in Asia ; Mount Caucasus makes near approaches to the 

 Andes, in South America, 131. 



Mouse, the most feeble and most timid of all quadrupeds, ex- 

 cept the Guinea-pig; never rendered quite familiar; though 

 fed in a cage, retains its apprehensions; no animal has 

 more enemies, and few so incapable of resistance ; the owl, 

 cat, snake, hawk, weasel, and rat, destroy them by millions ; 

 brings forth at all seasons, and several times in the year ; 

 its usual number from six to ten ; these in a fortnight 

 strong enough to shift for themselves ; places where chiefly 

 found ; Aristotle, having put a mouse with young into a 

 vessel of corn, some time after found a hundred and twenty 

 sprung from that original; its life lasts two or three years; 

 the species found in all parts of the ancient continent, and 

 has been exported to the new ; Gesner minutely describes 

 the variety of mouse-traps; long-tailed field-mouse; short- 

 tailed field-mouse ; has a store against winter, a bushel at 

 a time; a description of the shrew-mouse, iii. 180. 



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