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of the Mediterranean they multiplied in such numbers that 

 military aid was demanded to destroy them ; love a warm 

 climate ; English counties most noted for them ; delight in 

 a sandy soil ; the tame larger than the wild ; indulged in 

 too great plenty of moist food, as the feeders express it, 

 are apt to grow rotten ; their hair employed in England for 

 several purposes ; the skin of the male preferred, iii. 137. 



Rabbit (Syrian), remarkable for the length, gloss, and soft- 

 ness of its hair, iii. 141. In some places curled at the end 

 like wool, and shed once a-year in large masses, and some 

 part dragging on the ground, appears like another leg or a 

 longer tail ; no rabbits natural in America ; those carried 

 from Europe multiply in the West-India islands abundant- 

 ly ; on the continent there are animals resembling the 

 European rabbits, 141. 



Rabbit (Brasilian), shaped like the English, but without a 

 tail ; does not burrow like ours, and is not above twice the 

 size of a dormouse ; Guinea-pig placed by Brisson among 

 animals of the rabbit kind, iii. 167. 



Racoon, with some the Jamaica rat ; its description and ha- 

 bits ; do more injury in one night in Jamaica, than the 

 labours of a month can repair ; capable of being instructed 

 in amusing tricks, drinks by lapping, as well as by sucking ; 

 its food, iii. 394. 



Rainbows, circular rainbows in the Alps, i. 125. And be- 

 tween the tropics, and near the poles, 320. One of the 

 three rainbows seen by Ulloa, at Quito, was real, the rest 

 only reflections thereof; a glass globe, filled with water, 

 will assume successively all the colours of the rainbow ; 

 upon the tops of very high mountains circular rainbows are 

 seen, and why ; a lunar rainbow, near the poles, appears of 

 a pale white, striped with grey ; the solar rainbow, in 

 Greenland, appears of a pale white, edged with a stripe of 

 dusky yellow, 325. 



Rain-fowl, the name given in some parts of the country to the 

 woodpecker, and why, iv. 197. 



Rains of blood, the excrements of an insect at that time raised 

 into the air, i. 331. 



Rams, it is no uncommon thing in the counties of Lincoln 

 and Warwick to give one hundred guineas for a ram, ii. 

 259. 



Ranguer, the name of the ninth variety of gazelles, made by 

 M. Buffon, ii. 287. 



Rarefaction of air, produced by the heat of the sun-beams in 

 countries under the line, being flat and sandy, low and ex- 

 tensive, as the deserts of Africa, i. 293. 



Rats, musk-rat, three distinctions of that species ; the ondatra, 

 desman, andnilori; the ondatra differs from all others, hav- 

 ing the tail flatted and carried edge- ways ; in what they re- 



