INDEX. 373 



stomach, as a reservoir of water for occasional use, iii. 374-. 

 Birds have properly but one stomach, yet this is different 

 in different kinds, iv. 12. That of the cuckoo enormous, 

 reaches from the breast-bone to the vent, 212. See Animals. 



Stone-chatter, slender billed bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 

 255. Migrates, 257- 



Stones, shower of stones and other matters raised by storms in 

 one country, carried to another, fall suddenly as showers of 

 rain, i. 331. Falling from the atmosphere after the explosion 

 of meteors, i. 34-1. 



Stork, true difference between it and the crane ; are birds of 

 passage, returning into Europe in March ; places for their 

 nests; number of eggs; are a month in hatching ; and, their 

 young excluded, they are particularly solicitous for their 

 safety ; their food in a great measure frogs and serpents ; 

 the Dutch attentive to the preservation of the stork ; in their 

 republic the bird protected by the laws and the prejudices 

 of the people ; countries where found ; ancient Egyptians' 

 regard for this bird carried to adoration ; the ancient ibis 

 supposed the same which at present bears the same name ; 

 a bird of the stork kind, about the size of a curlew, iv. 

 306. 



Storms foretold by the barometer, i. 299. Above their region 

 all is calm and serene ; rise to the tops of the highest moun- 

 tains ; confirmed by those who have been on the Andes, and 

 by the deep snows that crown them, 300. With powerful 

 effects, do not show great speed, 302. One most dreadful 

 in Hertfordshire in 1697; description of it, 318. 



Stove, its warmth expeditious for hatching, and efficacious in 

 bringing the animal in the egg to perfection, i. 368. 



Strabism, an inequality of sight, and particular cast of the 

 eye, whence it proceeds, ii. 29. 



Stream of rivers, more rapid in proportion as its channel is 

 diminished, and why, i. 176. The surface swifter than the 

 bottom, and why ; islands, turnings, and other obstacles 

 retard the course but inconsiderably, and why, 177. 



Strength, a just way of estimating human strength, by perseve- 

 rance and agility of motions ; not hereditary ; prodigies of 

 it in Milo, and also in Athanatus ; estimation of strength 

 in Maximin, the emperor, described ; instance of it in ani- 

 mals by the bulk of their muscles very fallacious, thin and 

 raw-boned men being generally stronger and more power- 

 ful than those seemingly more muscular ; women much 

 inferior in strength to men ; of man less valuable since the 

 invention of gunpowder, of new machines, and the appli- 

 cation of the power of animals to the purposes of life ; the 

 comparative strength of a horse measured not by what he 

 can carry, but by what he can draw, i. 438. Of the in- 

 habitants round the poles is amazing, ii. 78. 



