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manner of increasing their animosity for diversion ; weak 

 and cowardly against the weakest animals that dare face 

 them ; the cock pursues what flies from him, as lap-dogs 

 and children, then returns to his train, displays his plumage, 

 and struts about ; the female milder, gentler, and particu- 

 larly fond of ants' and caterpillars' eggs ; lays eighteen or 

 twenty eggs larger than a hen's ; the young very tender at 

 first, must be carefully attended to; account of Abb6 

 Pluche of a turkey-hen and her brood at the sight of a 

 bird of prey ; turkies of Norfolk the largest of this kingdom, 

 some weigh thirty pounds ; in the East Indies, in a domes- 

 tic state, grow to weigh sixty pounds, iv. 144. 



Turkish dog, without hair, iii. 19. 



Turnspit, a dog of the mongrel kind, and the lower class of 

 Dr Caius's division, iii. 15. 



Turn-stone, a small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. Likes 

 colder climates in summer, or wildest and moistest parts in 

 this country ; is a bird of passage, 344. 



Turtle prepares for laying, and deposits her eggs in the sand, 

 where in twenty-six days they are hatched by the sun ; lays 

 from one hundred and fifty to two hundred in a season ; the 

 young from the egg, with their shell, seek their food un- 

 taught, and, when the size of quails, run by instinct to the 

 sea, ignorant of all danger, v. 194. Propagated on shore 

 only; comes from sea on purpose in coupling season; 

 female is passive and reluctant ; the male is slow, but grasps 

 so fast, nothing loosens the hold, 193. 



Turtle (article of commerce), the shell put to many uses; of 

 the hawk's-bill the finest; consists of eight flat, and five 

 hollow plates; how manufactured; the flesh, particularly 

 of the green turtle, prized as a delicacy, and is wholesome ; 

 the great Mediterranean the largest of all, unfit and unsafe 

 to eat; its shell is unprofitable for use; several ways of 

 catching turtles, v. 190. 



Turtle-dove, one of the ruminating birds, or with a power of 

 disgorging food to feed its young, ii. 225. 



Tusks, those of a boar sometimes a foot long, ii. 365. Of the 

 babyrouessa, a fine ivory, smoother and whiter than the 

 elephant's, but not so hard; of enormous size, 383. Of 

 castrated animals, scarce appear without the lips ; broken, 

 abate his fierceness and venery, producing nearly the same 

 effect as castration, 385. Of the mammoth, weigh four 

 hundred pounds ; those of the elephant from Africa, two 

 hundred and fifty ; some remarkable lately found near the 

 Ohio and Miume, in America; Dr Hunter thinks them of 

 a larger animal than the elephant, iii. 3,56. Of the narwhal, 

 or sea-unicorn, a cetaceous fish, with teeth from nine to 

 fourteen feet long, v. 48. 



