INDEX. 



Trochus, the snails of that kind have no mouth : their trunk : 

 are, among snails, what the tiger, eagle, or shark are among 

 beasts, birds, or fishes, v. 225. 

 Troglodyte (of Bontius), is the ourang-outang, or wild man 



of the woods, iii. 280. 



Tropical seas, supposed by Linnaeus the native spot of man, 

 and the northern climates only places of sojourning for him ; 

 an argument sufficing to prove the contrary, ii. 96. The 

 climates so hot, dogs in process of time lose the delicacy 

 of their scent entirely, and why, 438. 

 Trumpeter, a curious bird of South America, iv. 153. 

 Trumpets increase sounds, in the same manner as the tele- 

 scope does bodies : persons hard of hearing find the same 

 advantage in the trumpet made for this purpose, that the 

 short-sighted persons do from glasses ; were they farther 

 enlarged they could be used to advantage only in a place 

 of solitude and stillness, as the multitude of sounds would 

 produce tumult and confusion, ii. 43. 



Trunks (of animals), that of the elephant described, iii. 341. 

 That of the gnat may be deemed one of Nature's master- 

 pieces, vi. 167. 

 Tubes (of glass), drawn as fine as a hair, still preserve their 



hollow within, i. 165. 



Tufted duck, a variety of the kind, native of Europe, iv. 420. 

 Tumble-dung, a strong beetle, remarkable for make and man- 

 ners, vi. 154. 



Tumbler, in the division of Dr Caius, a dog of the first class, 

 or generous kind, iii. 14. Supposed the lurcher, and de- 

 scribed, 16. 



Turbinated shells, are univalves, and the first kind of Aristo- 

 tle's division, v. 208. 

 Turbits, variety of the tame pigeons, obtained by cross breeds, 



iv. 240. 



Turbots and Rays extremely delicate in their choice of 

 baits ; a piece of herring or haddock, twelve hours out of 

 the sea, and used as a bait, will not be touched, v. 82. 

 Turkey (bird of the poultry kind), its native country disput- 

 ed ; arguments for the Old and New Continent ; first seen 

 in France in the reign of Francis I. and in England in that . 

 of Henry VIII. ; its tenderness with us, when young, argues 

 not for our climate ; in the wild state, hardy and numerous 

 in the snowy forests of Canada; also larger and more beau- 

 tiful than in the domestic state; the savages weave the 

 feathers into cloaks, and fashion them into fans and umbrel- 

 las ; hunting the turkey a principal diversion with them, its 

 flesh chiefly supporting their families ; manner of hunting, 

 iv. 142. 



Turkies, a stupid, vain tribe, quarrelling among themselves ; 

 the cock's antipathy to red ; bristles, and flies to attack it ; 



