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the author saw the skin below the jaw upon the neck hang 

 loose in a kind of dewlap ; they are easily fed ; some in 

 England eat bread, meat, and tobacco; the emperor of 

 Japan made a present of sixty thousand crowns value, for 

 one received from a governor of Batavia ; the Great Mogul 

 gave two thousand ducats for another ; African ambassadors 

 to the court of Constantinople bring some with them as 

 presents for the Grand Seignior, ii. 214, &c. 



Zebu, the Barbary cow, and the Grunting or Siberian cow, 

 are but different races of the bison, ii. 249. 



Zeiran, name of the fourth variety of gazelles by M. Buffon, ii. 

 283. 



Zeus, the doree, of the prickly-finned thoracic kind, descrip- 

 tion of that fish, v. 122. 



Zibet, one of the two species of the civet, according to M. 

 Buffon; distinction between them, iii. 101. 



Zone (temperate), properly speaking the theatre of natural 

 history, i. 12. 



Zone (torrid), in the centre the heat very tolerable, in other 

 places the cold painful ; temperature and advantages of per- 

 petual spring under it, i. 129. Lightning there not fatal or 

 dangerous, 325. Has the largest quadrupeds ; all fond of 

 the water, ii. 245. 



Zoophytes, name of vegetable nature endued with animal 

 life, vi. 170. First class of zoophytes, 173. All the tribe 

 continue to live in separate parts ; one animal, by cuttings, 

 divided into two distinct existences, sometimes into a thou- 

 sand, 178. Second class, 181. 



Zorille, a stinkard, of the weasel kind, resembles the skink ; 

 is smaller and more beautifully coloured, iii. 95. 



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