356 INDEX. 



considered as an elaboratory with vessels in it; their intes- 

 tines strong, fleshy, and well covered with Fat ; and furnish- 

 ed with four strong and muscular stomachs ; some that are 

 not furnished with four stomachs ; ruminant quadrupeds, 

 birds, fishes, insects, 223. Men known to ruminate; in- 

 stance in a young man at Bristol, 226. Those of the cow 

 kind hold the first rank, 227. All of this class internally 

 much alike, 252. Have not the upper fore-teeth, 259. 

 The stag performs this with more difficulty than the cow or 

 sheep, 311. 



Runner, the corrira, bird of the crane kind, its description, 

 iv. 338. 



Runts, a variety of tame pigeons, produced by cross -coupling, 

 iv. 240. 



Rust, copper and iron quickly covered and corroded with ft ; 

 gold contracts no rust, and why, except in the elaboratories 

 where salt is much used, i. 267. 



Sable, its description, from Mr Jonelin, the first accurate ob- 

 server of this animal ; sables leap with ease from tree to 

 tree, and are afraid of the sun ; different colours of their 

 fur ; hunting the sable chiefly the lot of soldiers and con- 

 demned criminals ; how directed to shoot them, iii. 87. 



Sabre, the trachepterus, description of this spinous fish, v. 122. 



Sacre, bird of the generous breed of hawks, the legs are of a 

 bluish colour, and serve to distinguish it, iv. 100. 



Sago-tree eat by the elephant to the stump, iii. 337. 



Sagoin, a tribe of monkeys which have feeble useless tails, iii. 

 319. 



Sai, the bewailer, a monkey of the new continent, iii. 318. 



Sail, a stag hard hunted, taking to the water, is said to go 

 sail, ii. 318. 



Sajou, third sort of the sapajou, a monkey of the new conti- 

 nent, iii. 318. 



Saki, the cagui, the largest monkey of the sagoin kind ; its 

 description, iii. 319. 



Salamander, no such animal existing as that described by the 

 ancients ; the modern salamander a lizard ; its conformation 

 and habits ; reports concerning their venom ; idle notion of 

 its being inconsumable by fire ; its internal conformation ; 

 manner of its bringing forth young ; all amphibious ; sustain 

 want of food surprisingly, v. 307. 



Sal-ammoniac made of the urine of camels, iii. 378. 



Salmon, a soft-finned abdominal fish, v. 125. The young con- 

 tinue in the egg from the beginning of December till the 

 beginning of April, 23. 



