INDEX. 381 



torpid during winter, sleeping in some cave, and breathing 

 imperceptibly : account of a land tortoise caught in a canal 

 at Amsterdam: and of a turtle in the Loire in 1729, v. 

 177. See Turtle. 



Toucan, a bird of the pie kind, has a large bill : the red-beak- 

 ed described : its food : pepper voided unconcocted by the 

 toucan, preferred to that fresh gathered : Pozzo bred one 

 tame : its habits and food : has birds, men, monkeys, and 

 serpents to guard against : scoops out its nest in the hol- 

 low of some tree, leaves scarce room to go in and out, and 

 with its great beak guards that entrance : found only in 

 warm parts of South America, where it is valued for its 

 tender and nourishing flesh, and the beauty of its plumage, 

 particularly the breast, the skin of which the Indians dry 

 and glue to their cheeks for beauty, iv. 192. 

 Touch, those parts of the body most exercised in touching, 

 acquire the greatest degree of accuracy : the fingers, by 

 long habit, not from a greater quantity of nerves, become 

 masters in the art, ii. 51. 



Trachinus, the weever, a prickly-finned jugular fish, describ- 

 ed, v. 119. 



Trachipterus, the sabre, a prickly-finned thoracic fish : its de- 

 scription, v. 122. 

 Track of a stag, manner of knowing it, and that of a hind, 



ii. 318. 



Tragelaphus, name of a stag with the ancients : found in the 

 forests of Germany, and called by the natives bran-deer, or 

 the brown deer, ii. 324. 



Traps (for horses,) used by the Arabians for the wild sort, ii. 

 181. For wild asses, also used in the Archipelago, 204. 

 For mice, described in variety by Gesner, iii. 182. 

 Treacle, food for bees during winter, when robbed of their 



honey, vi. 101. 



Trees (fossil), in the body of solid rocks, and deep under the 

 earth upon which they once grew : conjectures upon this 

 subject, i. 46. Found in quantities at the mouth of the 

 river Ness in Flanders, at the depth of fifty feet, 241. 

 Laying twenty feet deep under ground for many ages, be- 

 come hard and tough, proofs of alternate overflowings and 

 desertions of the sea, 243. Usually of the largest kinds in 

 wide uncultivated wildernesses, in the state of rude nature, 

 354. The banana and plantain, so immense, as to be ini- 

 mically inhabited by monkeys, snakes, and birds of most de- 

 lightful plumage, iv. 201. Age known by the number of 

 their circles, v. 20. 

 Trichurus, a prickly-finned apodal fish, of a sword-like form, 



described, v. 118. 



Trigla, the gurnard, of the spinous kind, description of this 

 fish, v. 121. 



