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INDEX. 



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bones, as through every other part of the body; Mr. Belcher the 

 first who discovered it; his experiment to this purpose, 173; blood 

 of the rein-deer preserved in small casks for sauce with the mar- 

 row in spring, 277 ; the heat of the blood in man and other 

 animals above thirty degrees above congelation ; in the marmout, 

 and other animals which sleep the winter, it is not above ten de- 

 grees, 357. 



Blue-bird described ; its residence ; is rarely caught ; its docility ; 

 speaks and whistles at the word of command ; manner of taking 

 it, 539. 



Blue Cat described, 291. 



Blushing, whence it proceeds, 144. 



Boar, wild, varies not his colour as dogs of the domestic kind ; 

 description ; he ploughs the ground like a furrow ; his tusks seen 

 almost a foot long ; they differ from those of the elephant in that 

 they never fall ; when the lioars come to a state of maturity, they 

 dread no single creature ; their position when attacked, 27!) ; the 

 manner of hunting them ; when killed, the testicles cut off to pie- 

 vent their tainting the flesh, 280 ; was formerly a native of our 

 country ; William the Conqueror punished with the loss of their 

 eyes such as killed it in his forests ; at present the wild breed is ex- 

 tinct, 282 ; the Canary boar described ; the tusks being broken 

 away, the animal abates its fierceness and venery, and nearly the 

 game effect as castration is produced, 287 ; does not fly at the ap- 

 proach of the lion ; combat of a lion and a wild boar, in a meadow 

 near Algiers, 295. 



BobaK, name of the marmout in Poland, 358. 



Bodies, why some light bodies swim, and ponderous bodies sink ; 

 the deeper a body sinks, the greater the resistance of the depressed 

 fluid beneath; how then, after it has got a certain way, it does 

 sink at all, 55, 56 ; animal bodies left to putrefy, produce air co- 

 piously, 98 ; symmetry of the human body ; the body of a well- 

 shaped man ought to be square, 140; human body often found to 

 differ from itself in size ; instance of it ; the cause ; differs also from it- 

 self in weight, 149 ; those parts furnished with the greatest quantity 

 of nerves, are first in formation, 15!) ; the tone of a sonorous body 

 made to depend upon the number of its vibrations, and not the 

 force, is taking an effect for a cause, 164 ; suffering is but to a cer- 

 tain degree ; torture becoming excessive, destroys itself ; and the 

 mind ceases to perceive, when the body can no longer endure, 170. 



Boerhaave taxed with marking out to his pupils a little ridge of 

 hills in Holland, as mountains of no small consideration, 40. 



Boiguacu, the largest of the serpent kind in South America ; 

 sometimes forty feet in length, 120; description of this creature, 741. 



Bonasus, supposed by Klein and Buffou another name for the 

 bison, 236. 



Bones, in the embryo, almost as soft as the muscles and flesh, 

 173 ; hard as the bones seem, the blood holds its current through 

 them, as through other parts of the body ; in old age more solid, 

 also more brittle, and why, ib. ; fossil bones found on the banks of the 

 Ohio, in Peru and Brazil, 424. See Blood, 173. See Bread, 179. 

 See Fish, 651. 



Bonet- Chinois, Mr. Buffon's name of a monkey, supposed to be a 

 variety of that called malbrouk, 411. 



Bonito, description of this fish, 650. 



Booby, name given by our seamen to birds of the penguin tribe, 

 589. 



Borandians, description of them, 178. 



Boristhtnes, or Nieper, a river, its course and source, 61. 



Borneo, the natives hunt the ouran-outang in the same manner 

 as the elephant or the lion, 403. 



Boror/t, in the kingdom of Cambaya, flocks of peacocks seen in 

 the fields near that city, 4!I8. 



Bosphorus, (the Thracian) was the first appropriated, by grant- 

 ing to such as were in possession of its shore the right of fishing 

 in~"it. 68. 



Bottom of the Red Sea, a forest of submarine plants, 85 ; that of 

 the sea in some parts not found, and why ; that of the sea near 

 America covered with vegetables ; a map of the bottom of the sea 

 between Africa and America, by M. Buache, ib. 



Borneo, island in the East Indies, where the babyrouessa, or In- 

 dian hog, is principally found ; hog of Borneo, the name given by 

 travellers to the babyrouessa, 285. 



Bowels, of the ruminating animals considered as an elaboratory 

 with vessels in it, 231 



Boyuna, of Ceylon, a kind of serpent, a great favourite among 

 the natives. 741. 



Brain and spiral marrow the first seen in the embryo, 159 ; earth- 

 worm entirely without it, 829 ; some animals live without their 

 brains for many weeks together, 830. 



Bramhling, a bird of the sparrow kind, 537, 538. 



Brarnms of India have a power of smelling equal to most crea- 

 tures ; they smell the water they drink, though to us quite in- 

 odorous, 169. 



Brasil, black clothes worn there soon turn of an iron-colour ; 

 kept in the shops, preserve their proper hue, 92 ; duck described. 

 51 '8. 



Bread, twelve ounces of it, and nothing but water, the common 

 allowance for four and twenty hours, among the primitive Chris- 

 tians of the East, 155 ; that of the Laplanders composed of bones 

 of fishes, pounded and mixed with the inside tender bark of the 

 pine-tree, 179. 



Bream, description of the sea bream, 648. 



Breasts in women larger than in men ; milk found in the breasts 

 of men as well as of women, 147 ; black women's breasts, after 

 bearing one child, hang down below the navel ; it is customary 

 among them to suckle the child at their backs, throwing the breasts 

 over the shoulder, 182. 



Breath of the lion is very offensive, 295 ; manner of breathing 

 in fishes, tiO!>. 



Breeze, constant breeze produced by the melting of snows, 101 ; 

 from sea increases gradually till twelve, sinks away, and totally 

 hushed at five ; upon its ceasing, the land breeze begins, increases 

 till twelve at night, and is succeeded 'n the morning by the 

 sea-breeze ; cause of these two breeze; ; sometimes the sea and 

 land-breezes come at all hours ; the land and sea-breezes on the 

 coast of Malabar and at Congo, 102. 



Brisson, his method of classing animals, 201. 



Bristol, a citizen of it who ruminated his food, 232. 



Britons, the ancient, considered the hare as an unclean animal, 

 and religiously abstained from it, 348 ; the cock a forbidden food 

 among them, 494. 



Broches, the horns of the stag the first year, 2C2. 



Brock, the stag of the third year, 202. 



Brown (Sir Thomas) hoped one day to produce children by the 

 same method as trees, 126 ; his opinion upon the cause of black- 

 ness in human complexions, 184. 



Brun (Le) giving a painter directions about the passions, place* 

 the principal expressions of the face in the eye-brows, 142. 



Brush, the name given by huntsmen to the tail of the fox, 323. 



Brutes, in those countries where men are most barbarous and 

 stupid, are most active and sagacious, 357. 



Bulia/HS, an animal partaking of the mixed natures of the cow, 



been called the 



Bubalus of the ancients, supposed of the cow kind by Buffon, 

 placed among the lower class of ruminant quadrupeds, 230'. 



Buccinums, one or two of them viviparous. 6rt4. 



Buck, capable of propagating at the age of one year ; one buck 

 sufficient for a hundred and fifty goats ; is enervated in four years 

 at most ; becomes old before his seventh year, 246 ; hunting the 

 buck and the stag performed in the same manner in England, 262; 

 number of names invented by hunters for this animal ; does not 

 change his layer like the stag ; manner of hunting him is much 

 the same as that of stag hunting, 266. 



Buck-goat produces with the ewe an animal that, in two or three 

 generations, returns to the sheep, retaining no marks of his an- 

 cient progenitor, 241. 



Buffalo, of the varieties of the cow kind, but two are really 

 distinct, the cow and the buffalo ; they bear antipathy to each 

 other ; they do not breed among each other, and no animals aro 

 more distinct and like each other less ; are in abundance in Gui- 

 nea and Malabar ; it is a great swimmer ; description of it ; the 

 veal of the young is not better eating than the beef of the old ; 

 they are natives of the warmer climates ; yet are bred in several 

 parts of Europe, particularly in Italy ; the female produces one at 

 a time ; continues pregnant for twelve months ; is afraid of fire ; 

 leather made of its hide is well-known for thickness, softness, and 

 impenetrability ; guided by a ring thrust through the nose ; milk 

 of the female not so good as that of the cow ; two buffaloes yoked 

 draw more thnn four strong horses ; its flesh hard and blackish, 

 disagreeable to taste and smell ; this animal wild in many parts of 

 India, and dangerous ; manner of hunting them ; when tamed, 

 no animal more patient or humble ; inferior in size only to the 

 elephant, the rhinoceros, or hippopotamus; the camelopard, or 

 camel, if taller, neither so long, nor so corpulent ; is fond of the 

 water, and crosses the largest rivers without difficulty ; has an 

 aversion to red colours tlint resemble flame; in those countries 

 where they are in plenty no person dresses in scarlet ; they make 

 most use of their feet in combat, and rather tread their enemies to 

 death than gore them, 236 to 239. 



