INDEX. 357 



Salt-water, opinions about the saltness of the sea, particularly 

 that of Boyle ; method of finding out the age of the world 

 by the saltness of the ocean ; saltness found to prevail in 

 every part of the ocean, as much at the surface as at the 

 bottom ; also found in some lakes ; considered as a principal 

 cause in preserving the sea from putrefaction ; it is confirm- 

 ed by experiments ; advantages derived from the saltness of 

 the sea ; various attempts to make it fresh ; its weight, i. 

 202. 



Salt, Bay-salt, brought from the Bay of Biscay, a strong kind 

 made by evaporation in the sun, i. 208. Fishes do not im- 

 bibe any of the saltness of the sea-water, v. 131. Allures 

 the pivot, or razor-shell, 240. Salt sprinkled upon the water- 

 lizard, the whole body emits a viscous liquor, and it dies in 

 three minutes, in great agonies, 313. Volatile caustic salt 

 obtained in great quantity from the cantharides fly, vi. 158. 



Samiri, the aurora, the smallest and most beautiful monkey of 

 the sapajou kind ; its description ; a very delicate animal, 

 and held in high price, iii. 318. 



Samoeid Tartars, description of that people, ii. 74. 



Sand, rolling in waves like a troubled sea, and overwhelming 

 all with inevitable destruction, i. 11. So fine, and driven 

 with such violence, as to penetrate into chests, be they shut 

 never so closely, 304. A tract of country, lying along the 

 sea-side in Lower Britanny, inhabited before the year 1666, 

 now lies desert, being covered with sand to the height of 

 twenty feet, 310. 



Sanderling, small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. 



Sandpiper, small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. 



Sand-storm of Africa described, i. 309. 



Santorin, an earthquake there in 1707 ; a new volcano near it, 

 i. 109. 



Sapajou, name given to the monkeys of the new continent, 

 that have muscular holding tails; five sorts of them, iii. 

 318. 



Savages more difficult in point of dress than the fashionable 

 or tawdry European ; instance of it, i. 425. Perform a 

 journey of twelve hundred leagues in less than six weeks, 

 439. Oblige the women to a life of continual labour ; are 

 surprised a European walks backward and forward for his 

 amusement, 444. The boast of corporal force now resign- 

 ed to savage nations, and why, 443. Are highly delighted 

 with the smell of assafcetida, ii. 49. Their customs in every 

 country almost the same, 88. Those of Africa the most 

 brutal ; they, and those of America, suppose monkeys to 

 be men, idle, slothful, rational beings, capable of speech 

 and conversation, but obstinately dumb, for fear of being 

 compelled to labour, iii. 315. 



