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an argument sufficient to prove the contrary; two white 

 negroes, the issue of black parents, 96. Of the African 

 coasts regard the bat with horror, and will not eat it, though 

 ready to starve, iii. 238. Happy to see numbers of monkeys 

 destroyed, because they dread their devastations, and love 

 their flesh ; cannot comprehend advantages arising to 

 Europeans from educating or keeping monkeys ; and having 

 seen young and tame monkeys bought, have offered rats 

 for sale to our factors, and been greatly disappointed at 

 finding no purchaser, 308. Distractedly fond of the flesh 

 of the shark, v. 74. Their manner of killing it, 73. 



Negroland, or Nigritia ; its inhabitants are the darkest of all 

 blacks, ii. 92. 



Nerves, wherever they go, or send their branches in number, 

 these parts are soonest begun, and most completely finish- 

 ed, ii. 20. 



Nest of every species of birds has a peculiar architecture ; 

 where eggs are numerous the nest must be warm, iv. 19. 

 Different places which birds choose for their nests, 20. De- 

 scription of the nest of an eagle found in the Peak of Derby- 

 shire, 74. Of the bald eagle, large enough to fill the body 

 of a cart, 77. Hanging nests in Brasil, 201. Made in 

 such a manner as to have no opening but at the bottom, 

 202. The Chinese get those of the swallows from the rocks, 

 and sell them in great numbers in the East Indies, where 

 they are esteemed great delicacies, and eat dissolved in 

 chicken or mutton-broth, 284-. That of the wasp one of 

 the most curious objects in natural history ; its description, 

 vi. 119. 



Nettles (of the sea), name given by some to the star-fish, 

 vi. 182. 



Newfoundland dog described, iii. 18. 



New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands ; the Philosophi- 

 cal Transactions give accounts of poisonous qualities in the 

 fish found on the coast of this island ; all kinds at different 

 times dangerous ; one day serving for nourishment, and the 

 next proving fatal, v. 155. 



Newton (Sir Isaac), observes all birds, beasts, fishes, insects, 

 trees, and vegetables, with their parts, grow from water ; 

 and, by putrefaction, return to water again, i. 143. Dis- 

 covered the true cause of the theory of the tides, 217. 

 With peculiar sagacity discovered the cause of the remark- 

 able tides at Tonquin, 222. 



Nicola Pesce, a celebrated diver ; his performances related by 

 Kircher ; he often swam over from Sicily into Calabria, car- 

 rying letters from the king ; frequently known to spend five 

 days in the midst of the waves, without any other provisions 

 than the fish he caught there, and ate raw, i. 251. 



