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lunar tides ; greatest in syzigies, least in quadratures ; flow 

 strongest in narrowest places ; Mediterranean, Baltic, and 

 Black Sea, no sensible tides, the Gulf of Venice excepted; 

 and why ; higher in the torrid zone than in the rest of the 

 ocean ; greatest at the river Indus, rising thirty feet ; re- 

 markably high on the coast of Malay, in the Straits of 

 Sunda, the Red Sea, the Gulf of St Lawrence, along the 

 coast of China and Japan, at Panama, and in the Gulf of 

 Bengal ; those at Tonquin most remarkable in the world ; 

 one tide, and one ebb, in twenty-four hours ; twice in each 

 month no tide at all; in the Straits of Magellan it rises 

 twenty feet, flows six hours, and the ebb lasts but two 

 hours, i. 215. 



Tiger leaps twenty feet at a spring, ii. 161. Often bigger 

 than the lion ; nothing tames it ; perfectly resembles the 

 cat, 416. The royal tiger carries a buffalo over its 

 shoulder to its den, 421. Attacks the lion, 409. Taught 

 to defend herds, 387. Said to follow the rhinoceros for its 

 excrements, 417. Other tales about it ; under Augustus, 

 a tiger an extraordinary sight ; the species scarce ; opinion 

 of Varro, that it was never taken alive, 419. The ancients 

 commended it for beauty among quadrupeds, equal to that 

 of the peacock among birds, 414. Supposed to bring forth 

 four or five at a time ; expresses his resentment as the lion ; 

 the skin esteemed in the East, particularly in China, 422. 

 Battle of one tiger and three elephants at Siam described, 

 419. Another between a tiger and a crocodile, 426. The 

 red tiger, M. Buffon's cougar, 423. Common in Guiana, 

 Brasil, Paraguay, and other parts of South America ; the 

 flesh superior to mutton, 427. And esteemed by the ne- 

 groes as a dainty, iii. 24. 

 Tiger-cat, or cat-a-mountain, the ocelot of M. Buffon, a 



beautiful animal, ii. 433. 

 Tipula (water), of the second order of insects ; description of 



it, vi. 37. 



Tipula, long-legged gnat, description of this insect; only dif- 

 ference between it and the gnat, vi. 164. 

 Titmouse, a slender billed bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. 

 Toad, some bigger than ducks, i. 351. Their flesh eaten as a 

 delicacy on the coast of Guinea, iii. 24. Differences be- 

 tween the frog and it, as to figure and conformation, v. 255. 

 Their nature, appetites, and food ; coupling ; difficulty in 

 bringing forth ; curious particulars relating to this animal ; 

 one swallowing a bee alive, the stomach stung, and the in- 

 sect vomited up again ; toads not venomous ; accounts of 

 toads taken inwardly ; a harmless, defenceless creature, and 

 unvenomous ; torpid in winter ; retreat then ; difficult to 

 be killed ; lives for centuries in a rock, or within an oak, 

 without access, nourishment, or air, and yet found alive and 



