INDEX. 387 



and produce but once a-year ; make nests in inaccessible 

 cliffs, and remotest places; their flesh lean, stringy, nau- 

 seous, tasting and smelling of carrion ; the down of their 

 wings makes a pretty kind of fur, commonly sold in the 

 Asiatic markets, 90, &c. 

 Vultures (king of), description of this bird, iv. 94. 



W 



Walfischoas, whale's provender, insects floating in clusters on 

 the surface of the sea, and called medusa by Linnaeus, v. 40. 



Walnut-trees, with walnuts on the stems, leaves, and branches, 

 in exact preservation, found at twenty-six feet depth, round 

 the city of Modena in Italy, i. 241. 



Wanderow, a baboon less than the mandril, its description ; 

 chiefly seen in the woods of Ceylon and Malabar, iii. 301. 



Wappe, dog of the mongrel kind, in the third division of Dr 

 Caius, iii. 15. 



Warbling (of birds), so loud and various in modulation, not 

 easily accounted for, iv. 12. 



Warine, the Brasilian guariba, largest of the monkey kind, 

 found in America; its description, iii. 318. 



Warree, hog of the Isthmus of Darien, described by Wafer, 

 ii. 385. 



Wasps, their description and habits ; their habitation scarcely 

 completed when the inhabitant dies; have two or three 

 hundred queens in a hive ; their nest a most curious object ; 

 the social wasps gather no honey themselves, though fond 

 of sweets ; fierce battles with the bees, who make up by con- 

 duct and numbers the deficiency of prowess ; their depreda- 

 tions ; where found, other flies desert the place ; live but 

 one season ; cannot endure winter ; before new-year they 

 wither and die, having butchered their young ; in every nest, 

 one or two females survive ; impregnated the preceding sea- 

 son, she begins in spring to lay eggs, and before June pro- 

 duces ten thousand young, which are nursed and fed by her 

 alone ; solitary wasp, its manners; provisions made for the 

 young at leaving the egg ; the provisions arranged and laid 

 in, the old one closes the hole and dies ; the young leaving 

 the egg, are scarcely visible ; how the life of the young is 

 spent ; wasps of Europe innocent, compared to those of tro- 

 pical climates; description of those of the West Indies, and 

 their habits ; pains of their sting insupportable, more terrible 

 than of a scorpion ; the part swells, and people are so dis- 

 figured as scarce to be known, vi. 117. 



Water, its parts infinitely small, driven through the pores of 

 gold, penetrating through all substances, except glass ; 

 enters the composition of all bodies, vegetable, animal, and 

 fossil ; birds, beasts, fishes, insects, trees and vegetables, 



