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hippopotamus of the New Continent : its description : resides 

 in the water: its food: its flesh thought a delicacy, iii. 393. 



Tarantula, the bite of this animal, and its cure by music, all a 

 deception : instance of it : native of Apulia in Italy : descrip- 

 tion : its bite not attended with dangerous symptoms : fables 

 of its virulence, v. 405. 



Tariguagua, ruggedness of road from it up to the Andes, not 

 easily described, i. 128. 



Tarsier, a monkey, last of the class of the opossum kind ; its 

 description ; why so called, iii. 328. 



Tartars, their religion consists in part in managing their 

 whiskers ; they waged a bloody war with the Persians as 

 infidels, not giving their whiskers the orthodox cut, i. 424. 

 The Ostiac, a race travelled down from the North, and 

 originally sprung from minute savages, ii. 79. Samoeid, 

 first distinct race of men round the pole, described, 74-. 



Tartary in general, comprehends great part of Asia ; descrip- 

 tion of natives and manners, ii. 79. 



Taste, to determine somewhat upon the nature of tastes, bodies 

 to be tasted must be moistened, or dissolved by saliva, to 

 produce a sensation ; the tongue and body to be tasted 

 being dry, no taste ensues ; tastes rendered agreeable by 

 habit; relish of tastes stronger in children than in persons 

 advanced in life; highest epicure has the most depraved 

 taste, ii. 50. 



Tatou or armadillo, a quadruped of the New Continent, 

 covered with shells, iiL 224. See Armadillo. 



Tatou-apara, first of the kinds of armadilla ; the second the 

 tatou of Ray, or the encoubert of M. Buffon ; the third, the 

 tatuette; their diversities described, iii. 231. 



Teal, smallest bird of the duck kind, distinguished, iv. 4-21. 



Teats, great variety of them in animals ; their form, and how 

 placed, i. 4-29. 



Teeth of animals various ; how formed in man, i. 428. Of the 

 elephant, shed like horns of deer, or obtained after death, 

 not yet known ; natives of Africa find them in their forests, 

 iii. 355. Of the narwhal surpasses ivory ; ascribed to a 

 different animal ; curiosity, and the desire of scarce things, 

 made them very valuable a century ago, v. 49. The white 

 shark is said to have one hundred and forty-four teeth, v. 

 67. 



Tegg, what the hunters call the doe the second year, ii. 329. 



Tejuguacu, tockay, and cordyle, all of the lizard kind, gra- 

 dually less, fill up the chasm between the crocodile and 

 the African iguana, v. 315. 



Tempests, loudest formed by united contributions of minerals, 

 regetables, and animals, increasing the streams of air rleet- 

 ing round the globe, i. 288. Frequent under the tropics, 

 and a space beyond them ; tempests of sandy deserts raised 



