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Jlss and horse, though nearly alike in form, are distinct kinds, 

 different in natures ; with only one of each kind, both races would 

 be extinguished ; in the state of nature entirely different ; wild ass 

 in greater abundance than the wild horse ; wild ass and the zebra a 

 different species ; countries where the wild ass is found ; some run 

 so swift, few coursers can overtake them ; caught with traps ; 

 taken chiefly for the flesh and skins, which make that leather called 

 shagreen ; entertainment of wild asses in Persia seen by Olearius ; 

 the delicacy of its flesh a proverb there ; Galen deems it unwhole- 

 some ; asses originally imported into America by the Spanhrcls. 

 have run wild, and multiplied in such numbers as to be a nuisance ; 

 chase of them in the kingdom of Quito ; have all the swiftness of 

 horses ; declivities and precipices do not retard their career ; after 

 the first load their celerity leaves them, their dangerous ferocity 

 lost, and they contract the stupid look and dulness peculiar to the 

 assinine species ; will not permit a horse to live among them ; 

 always feed together ; and a horse straying where they graze, they 

 fall upon, bite, and kick him, till he be dead ; their preference to 

 any vegetable is to the plantain ; they drink as soberly as they 

 eat, and never dip the nose into the stream ; fear to wet their feet, 

 and turn out to avoid the dirty parts of a road ; show no ardour but 

 for the female, and often die after covering ; scent an owner at a 

 distance, and distinguish him in a crowd ; with eyes covered, they 

 will not stir a step ; when laid down, one eye covered with the 

 grass, and the other hidden with a stone, or other contiguous body, 

 they will not stir or attempt to rise, to get free from impediments ; 

 several brought up to perform, and exhibited at a show ; suffered 

 to dwindle every generation, and particularly in England ; bulk for 

 bulk, an ass stronger than a horse, and surer-footed ; also less apt 

 to start than the horse ; more healthy than the horse ; Persians 

 cleave their nostrils to give them more room for breathing ; Spa- 

 niards alone know the value of the ass; the Spanish jack- ass above 

 fifteen hands high; the ass originally a native of Arabia; warm 

 climates produce the largest and best ; entirely lost among us during 

 the reign of queen Elizabeth ; Hollingshead pretends our land 

 yields no asses, yet they were common in England before that time ; 

 in Sweden they are a sort of rarity ; by the last history of Norway, 

 they had not reached that country ; in Guinea, they are larger and 

 more beautiful than the horses of that country ; in Persia, are two 

 kinds, some sold for forty or fifty pounds ; no animal covered with 

 hair less subject to vermin ; live till twenty or twenty-five ; sleeps 

 less than the horse, and never lies down for it, unless much tired ; 

 she-ass crosses fire and water to protect her young ; the gimerro 

 bred between the ass and the bull ; the size and strength of our 

 asses improved by importation of Spanish jack-asses, 223 to 227; 

 destroyed by the South-American bat, called vampyre, 385. 



Jlssafte/ida, savage nations delighted with the smell, 169. 



Jissinlboils lake, where the river St. Lawrence takes its rise, 63. 



Jlstruites, among coral substances, 838. 



Atalantes, an island submersed, was as large as Asia Minor and 

 Syria ; the fruits of the earth offered without cultivation, 39. 



Jtlluinatus, instance of his strength, 151. 



J)t/ii:lstan, prohibited the exportation of mares and stallions, ex- 

 cept as presents, 222. 



Athenians had their cock-matches, 495. See Quail-fighting, 509. 



dthvrine, description of this fish, 650. 



Atinosfktre, most disorders incident to mankind, says Bacon, 

 arise from changes in the atmosphere, 611. 



Attraction, defined ; the sun possessed of the greatest share, 2. 



Aeosr.Un, or scooper, a bird found in Italy ; now and then comes 

 over into England ; its description, and extraordinary shape of its 

 bill, 5(J7. 



Aurclia, one of the appearances of the caterpillar, 784 to 787 ; 

 laying it in a warm room, Mr. Reaumur hastened the disclosure 

 of the butterfly, and by keeping it in an ice-house, retarded it ; 

 though it hears a different appearance, it contains all the parts of 

 the butterfly in perfect formation ; some insects continue under 

 that form not above ten days, some twenty, some several months, 

 others for a year together, 789 ; how the butterfly gets rid of that 

 covering, ib. ; aurelia of the bee different from that of the common 

 caterpillar, ^05. 



Aurora Roreahs, or northern light, streams with peculiar lustre, 

 and a variety of colours, round the pole ; its appearance almost 

 constant in winter ; and when the sun departs for half a year, this 

 meteor supplies its beams, affording light for all the purposes of 

 existence, 113. 



Aurora, or the aamiri, the smallest and most beautiful of the 

 sapajou monkeys; its description; is very tender, delicate, and 

 held in high price, 412. 



.luverfinc, in France, an amazing mummy dug up at that place, 



Auk, a bird bred in the island of St. Kilda, 589. 

 Jixis, a kind of beautiful stag ; its description. 265. 

 Azores, serpents, adders, and snakes, seen about these islands by 

 sir Robert Hawkins in 1590, 70. 



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Baboon, survey of the baboon kind, 404 ; fierce, malicious, igno- 

 rant, and untractable ; its description ; impelled by a hatred for 

 the males of the human species, and a desire for women ; the 

 Chevalier Forbin relates, that in Siam, whole troops will sally forth, 

 plunder the houses of provisions, and endeavour to force the wo- 

 men ; manner of robbing an orchard or vineyard at the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; the female brings forth one at a time, carries it in her 

 arms, clinging to her breast ; at the Cape of Good Hope, the 

 young of these animals are taught to guard houses, and perform 

 the duty with punctuality ; they seem insensible of the mischief 

 they do ; a baboon described by Mr. Buffon ; lasciviousness pre- 

 dominant ; their food ; are not found to breed in our climate ; are 

 not carnivorous ; their liver, like that of a dog, divided into six 

 lobes ; the largest of the kind is the mandril ; its description ; dis- 

 pleased, it weeps like a child ; is a native of the Gold Coast ; that 

 called Wanderow chiefly seen in the woods of Ceylon and Mala- 

 bar ; its description ; the Maimon of Buffon, by Edwards called 

 the pig-tail, the last of the sort ; its description ; a native of Suma-- 

 tra, 406. 



Baby, the name of a dwarf, whose complete history is very 

 accurately related by Mr. Daubenton, 189. 



Babi/rouessa, the Indian hog ; its description ; travellers call it 

 the hog of Borneo ; in what manner it escapes the pursuers ; has 

 enormous tusks of fine ivory ; less dangerous than the wild boar ; 

 the tusks have points directed to the eyes, and sometimes grow 

 into them ; these animals, in a body, are seen with the wild boars, 

 with which they are not known to engender ; are easily tamed ; 

 have a way of reposing different from other animals of the larger 

 kind, by hitching one of their upper tusks on the branch of a tree, 

 and suffering their whole body to swing down at ease ; they are 

 fierce and terrible when offended, and peaceable and harmless 

 when unmolested ; their flesh good to be eaten, but said to putrefy 

 in a short time ; they chiefly live upon vegetables and the leaves 

 of trees ; are found in the island of Borneo, and in other parts of 

 Asia and Africa, 285 to 287. 



Bacon's observations upon fishes, 611. 



Badger, a solitary, stupid animal ; forms a winding hole, and 

 remains in safety at the bottom ; the fox takes possession of the 

 hole quitted by the badger, or forces it from the retreat by wiles ; 

 surprised by the dogs at a distance from its hole, it fights with 

 desperate resolution ; all that has life is its food ; it sleeps the 

 greatest part of its time, and though not voracious, keeps fat. par- 

 ticularly in winter; it keeps the hole very clean ; the female 

 makes a bed of hay for her young ; brings forth in summer, three 

 or four young ; how she feeds them ; the young are easily tamed ; 

 the old are savage and incorrigible ; are fond of fire, and often 

 burn themselves dangerously ; are subject to the mange, and have 

 a gland under the tail, which scents strongly ; its flesh rank and 

 ill-tasted, 438. 



Ba", name of the false belly of the oppossum ; its description, 

 414. 



Bug, or pouch, of the civet. See Civet, 341. 



Bait, the best for all kinds of fish is fresh herring ; the larger 

 sort will take a living small fish upon the hook sooner than any 

 other bait, 634. 



Balance, to determine the specific gravity of metals, 55. 



Balearic crane, its description ; the real crane of Pliny ; comes 

 Jrom the coast of Africa and Cape de Verd Islands ; ha* been de- 

 scribed by the name of sea-peacock ; foreign birds of the crane 

 kind described, the jabiru, the jabiruguacu, the anhima, and the 

 buffoon-bird, 557, 558. 



Ball of fire of the bigness of a bomb ; its effects, 111. 



Banks of a river, after inundations, appear above water, when 

 all the adjacent valleys are overflown, and why, 59. 



Banana, the elephant eats the plant to the roots, 418. 



Barb, an Abrabian horse bred in Barbary, 218. 



Barbs of the whale, or whale-bone, 617. 



Barbary hen, its description, 503. 



Barbie, a flat fish, its </rowth, 657. 



Barja, in South A merica, cattle destroyed at that place by Ike 

 American bats, called vampyres, 386, 



Baris. See Apes, 401. 



Barnacle, imaginary, a shell-fish, 694. 



