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company in Spain : nature denying, art supplied the defi- 

 ciency : a Spanish general borrowing money from the Vene- 

 tians, pawned his whiskers, and took care to release them : 

 part of the religion of the Tartars consists in the management 

 of their whiskers ; and they waged war with the Persians, 

 as infidels, whose whiskers had not the orthodox cut : the 

 kings of Persia wore them matted with gold thread ; and 

 the kings of France, of the first races, had them knotted and 

 buttoned with gold, i. 424. 



Whiston, his reasoning concerning the theory of the earth : 

 finds water enough in the tail of a comet for the universal 

 deluge, i. 23. 



White, the natural colour of men, all other tints proceed from 

 greater or lesser heat of climates, ii. 90. Among white 

 races of people, our own country bids fairest for pre-emi- 

 nence, 92. 



White-bait, shoals appear near Greenwich in July, and seem 

 the young of some animal not come to perfect form, v. 144. 



White-nose, the moustoc, monkey of the ancient continent, a 

 beautiful little animal : its description : a native of the Gold 

 Coast, iii. 317. 



White-throat, a slender-billed bird of the sparrow kind, living 

 upon insects, iv. 255. 



Widgeon, a variety of the European duck, described, but best 

 known by its whistling sound, iv. 421. 



Wild man of the, woods, the ourang outang, foremost of the 

 ape kind: this name given to various animals walking up- 

 right, but from different countries, and of different propor- 

 tions and powers : the troglodyte of Bontius, the drill of 

 Purchas, pigmy of Tyson, and pongo of Battel, have all this 

 general name, iii. 280. 



Wind, a current of air: artificial: causes assigned for the 

 variety, activity, continual change, and uncertain duration 

 of it : in what manner to foretell the certainty of a wind, as 

 the return of an eclipse : to account for variations of wind 

 upon land, not at present expected : recourse to be had to 

 the ocean, and why : in many parts of the world the winds 

 pay stated visits : in some places they blow one way by day, 

 and another by night : in others, for one half-year they go 

 in a direction contrary to their former course : in some 

 places the winds never change : the wind which never varies 

 is the great universal wind, blowing from the east to the 

 west, in all extensive oceans, where the land does not break 

 the general current : the other winds are deviations of its 

 current : many theories to explain the motion of the winds : 



that of Dr Lyster : theory of Cartesius : Dr Halley's more 

 plausible, i. 287. 



Winds (trade) blow from the poles towards the equator : were 



