12 



CIV 



INDEX. 



COC 



Charossi, the only sort of horses for hunting lions, 296. 



Charybdis, a gulf; Nichola Pesce jumped into it, continued for 

 three quarters of an hour below, and at last appeared holding a 

 golden cup in one hand, and making his way among the waves with 

 the other; description of this gulf, 8(3. "<7. 



Chase, men of every age and nation have made that of the stag a 

 favourite pursuit ; in our country it was ever esteemed a principal 

 diversion of the great, 2ti<); these sports reserved by Bovereipu tor 

 particular amusement, and when ; in the reigns of William Hnfiis 

 and Henry the First, it was less criminal to destroy a human being 

 than a beast of chase ; s::crrd edifice:) thrown down for room to 

 beasts of chase. 201 : chase of the stag, as performed in Kngland; 

 terms used by hunters in that chase, 202 ; the same in Sk-.ily ; and 

 in China, 10'J ; chase of the fox : cant terms used by the huntsmen 

 in it, 323; of all varieties, that of the ostrich the most laborii'iis, 

 is also the most entertaining ; description of it, -Iti.j. 



Chasms, amazing in the Alps, and still more in the And:/;;, 17 ; 

 'causes that produce chasms or fissures, 18. 



Chatterer, a bird, native of Germany ; its description, 517, 51.-. 



Cheese, the inhabitants of Canada use no other than the milk of 

 the hind, or the female of the stag, 265 ; those of Ijapland little and 

 well tasted; never breed mites, 206. 



Cheops, the oldest measure of the human figure in his monument, 

 in the first pyramid of Eirypt, 192. 



Cheseldcn. See Cataract, 101, 162. 



Clirrrotia, or little Guinea Deer. Die least of all cloven-footed 

 quadrupeds, and perhaps tin 1 !;ii; is most delicately shaped; 



its description ; ivitive f l:idi i. ( ruiivj,-:, and the warm climates be- 

 tween the tropics ; the nvile in Guinea has horns, but the female is 

 without any; they chiefly abound in Java and Ceylon, 253, 254. 



Chan 1 the quantity of water on the earth daily de- 



creasing, 53. 



Chicken, an amazing history of it in the egg, by Malpighi and 

 Haller, 126 ; in what manner six or seven thousand are produced 

 at a time, at Grand Cairo ; capons clutch a fresh brood of chickens 

 throughout the year, 490. 



ChM, history of the child in the womb, 120 to 131 ; children of 

 Xi'grocs able to walk at two months old, at least to move from one 

 place to another ; in our own country seldom able to walk under a 

 twelvemonth ; skin of children newly brought forth, is always red, 

 and why ; the size of a new-born infant about twenty inches, and 

 its weight twelve pounds. 134 ; when newly born, pass most of their 

 time in sleeping, and awake with crying ; in cold countries continue 

 to be suckled for four or five years together ; in Canada and Green- 

 land mothers are often se'en suckling two or three children of dif- 

 ferent ages at a time, 135 ; child's growth less every year till the 

 time of puberty, when it seems to start up of a sudden, ib. ; in some 

 countries speak sooner than in others, and why ; children of the 

 Italians speak sooner than those of the Germans ; various methods 

 pointed out to improve the intellects of children, 188, 181) ; inherit 

 the accidental deformities of their parents ; instances of it, 1-5 ; 

 white children frequently produced from black parents ; but never 

 Black children from two whites, 136 ; many instances of the child 

 in the womb being marked by the strong affections of the mother ; 

 how performed is not known ; hard to conceive that the child in the 

 womb should take the print of the father's features, 187, Is8. 



f.'liiinborazo, a remarkable mountain in South America, 44. 



Chinese, have neither flats nor sharps in their music, 161 ; their 

 uorses weak, little, ill-shaped, and cowardly, 220; description of 

 that people, ISO, 181. 



Ckorosan, in Persia, bodies previously embalmed, and burird in 

 the sands of that country, preserved from corruption a thousand 

 years. 



Cliou^li. description of the Cornish Chough, 514. 



Christmher (St.) See Fish, 020. 



Chrysalis, or the avrclia, 787. 



Ckryscs. an island sunk near Lemnos, 3!). 



Cicero, a long poem of his in praise of the halcyon, of which but 

 i wo lines remain, 602. 



Cii-i-insians, described, 183. 



Circe, an enchantress, armed her son with a spear headed with 

 i lie spine of the trygon, O'i5. 



Clrrnlatiun of the blood. See Hlootl,l7'3. 



L'ivet, tlie species distinguished into two kinds ; Mr. Buffon calls 

 one the civet, the other the zibet ; distinctions between the two 

 kinds ; the civet thirty inches long ; both civet and zibet considered 

 as varieties of the same animal, as former naturalists have done ; 

 the civet resembles the weasel kind, in what ; differs from them, in 

 what; the opening of the pouch or bag, the receptacle of the civet; 

 manner of taking the civet from the pouch ; although a native of 

 'the warmest climates, (his animal lives in temperate and even cold 



I 



countries , the quantity of perfume which a single animal affords, 

 generally depends upon its health and nourishment ; kinds of food it 

 likes best ; drinks rarely, yet it makes urine often ; and. upon such 

 occasions, the male is not distinguishable from the female ; numbers 

 of these animals bred in lli.lhmd, and the perfume of Amsterdam 

 reckoned the purest of any ; the quantity greater proportionably to 

 the quality and abundance of the food ; this perfume so strong that 

 it communicates to all parts of the animal's body, to its fur and skin : 

 a person shut up with one of them in a close room, cannot support, 

 the perfume ; manner of i:h<ic-';-.,r (],, perfume ; the places of con - 

 ble traffic in it : the animal irritated, its scent become* 

 greater ; and tormented, its sweat is Ptill stronger, and serves to 

 adulterate or increase what is otherwise obtained from it ; civet a 

 more grateful perfume- than musk : sold in Holland for fifty shillings 

 an ounce : its eyes shine in the night ; sees better in the dark than 

 by day; breeds very fast in climates where beat conduces lo propa- 

 ' at ion ; thought a wild fierce animal ; never thoroughly familiar: 

 .ives by prey ; birds, and nnimals it can overcome ; its teeth strong- 

 and cutting ; its claws feeble and inflexible ; this perfume quite dis- 

 continued in prescription ; persons of taste proscribe it from the 

 toilet, 340 to 342. 



Clarities, or collar-bones, what animals have them; Mr. Buff.m 

 says none but monkeys, but this is an oversight, 147. 



Claws of the lion give a false idea of its power ; we ascribe to its 

 force the effects of its arms, 149; the weasel kind neither draw in. 

 nor extend their claws, as cats do, 328 ; those of the civet feeble and 

 inflexible, 341. 



Climates, calamities in those where the air is condensed by cold, 

 95 ; cause obvious, and sufficient to produce blackness of Negroes, 

 184; complexions of different countries darken in proportion to the 

 heat of the region ; next to human influence, the climate has the 

 strongest effects upon the nature and form of quadrupeds, 408 ; 

 those excessively hot. unfavourable to horses, 220; in general, 

 water-fowls of no particular climate, 537. 



Clot/i. now made worse than some years past ; Flemings possessed 

 the art of cloth-working in a superior degree, 243. 



Clone-trees cut down by the Dutch at Ternate to raise the price 

 of tile spice ; soon had reason to repent of their avarice, 95. 



Cluuils, the forerunners of a terrible hurricane, called by the sai- 

 lors the bull's eye, 105 ; dashing against each other, produce electri- 

 cal fire ; water evaporates, and rising forms clouds; the theory upon 

 it ; that of Dr. Hamilton ; the author's theory of evaporation, 107, 

 108 ; at once pour down their contents, and produce a deluge ; re- 

 flecting back images of things on earth, like mirrors; during the 

 winter months, under the Line, usually about May, the whole hori- 

 zon seems wrapt in a muddy cloud, 110. 



Clupea, or herring, its description, 650. 



Coaili, a monkey of the new continent, described, 412. 



Coan, the name of a dwarf lately dead at Chelsea, 189. 



Coast of Italy is bordered with rocks of marble of different kinds ; 

 quarries of which may easily be distinguished at a distance from 

 sea ; those of France from Brest to Bourdeaux, and Spain, composed 

 of rocks, 79 ; of the sea, have peculiar winds. 102 ; deadly winds all 

 along those of the Persian Gulf, and those of India, 105. 



Coatimondi, extreme length of its snout; its description; very 

 subject to eat its own tail; its habits, 440. 



Cobitis, the loach, description of this fish, 050. 



Cobra di Capcllo, a kind of serpent, 732, 739. 



Cochineal, a description of this insect, as in our shops brought 

 from America ; difference between the domestic and the wild 

 cochineal ; precautions used by those who take cire of those insects ; 

 the propagator has a new harvest thrice a year ; various methods 

 of killing them ; produce different colours as brought to us ; our 

 cochineal is only the females, used both for dying and medicine, f-23. 



Cock, of all birds the cock the oldest companion of man, and first 

 reclaimed from the forest ; scarcely two in the whole species that 

 exactly resemble each other in plumage and form ; species of cock 

 from Japan, covered over with hair instead of feathers ; the western 

 world had the cock from Persia ; Aristophanes' cock the Persian 

 bird ; it was one of the forbidden foods among the ancient Britons ; 

 Persia, that first introduced it to us, no longer knows it in its natural 

 form: countries where it is wild ; peculiarities, in a wild condition; 

 another peculiarity in those of the Indian woods, their bones, when 

 boiled, are as black as ebony ; the Athenians had cock-matches ae 

 we ; no animal of greater courage, when opposed to one of its own 

 species; in China, India, the Philippine islands, and over the East, 

 cock-fighting the sport and amusement of kings and priuces; cocks 

 in China as bold, or bolder, than ours ; and of more strength with 

 less weight ; its great courage proceeds from being the most sala- 

 cious of all birds ; a single cock suffices for a dozen liens ; and is the 

 only animal whose spirits are not abated by indulgence ; soon grows 



