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old, and in three or four years becomes unfit for the purposes of im- 

 pregnation ; how long cocks live, left to themselves, not well ascer- 

 tained ; Aldrovandus makes their age to be ten years ; arc injured, 

 as Linnxus asserts, by elder hurries, 494 to '1'Jti ; the black chiefly 

 found in heathy mountains, and piny forests, 50S ; cock of the wood. 

 See tt'ouilcock. 



Cackle, a bivalved shcll-iis'.- 



Coeua, the elephant > nts to the roots, 3(>li. 



Cut!, from the banks :'nHainl, pursues the whitin?- 



which flies before it to the southern shores of Spain, <10!> ; spawn 

 in one season, as Lewenlieecl. ve nine millions of eggs 



or peas, contained in a Mingle roe, (il'J ; its description, t!-i:>; fishery 

 in Nowiiiinidiand ; wh: such large quantities, that they 



supply all Europe with a emisidcrahln share of provision ; when 

 their provision is exhausted, they go to the polar seas, where they 

 deposit their roes in i'uil srenrily. ' 



Cniil promotes oviiporation, although diminisliing the force of 

 other menstruums, I 1 '-; extremity of it not less productive of tawny 

 complexions than that of heat, JS4; excessive, preserves bodies 

 from corruption, I'.'"*: s^me fishes rendered so torpid by cold in 

 the northern rivers, as to bo frozen up in the masses of ice, where 

 they continue, for months together, without life or sensation, pri- 

 soners of congelation, waiting a warmer sun to restore them to 

 life and liberty, U.".:i, 



Collar-bouts, what animals have them, 347 



Colliers, eight dropped down dead by the vapour of the mines 

 in Scotland, as if shot, ^1. 



Ctiluur, none refreshes the sight so well as green, 5 ; of the sea, 

 not from any thing floating in it, hut from different reflections of 

 rays of light ; the proof, 85; different colours of the eye, 141; 

 whence proceeds the tawny of the North American Indians. l'*4. 

 \f~j-, different of the waters of the same sea, 80; hair takes its 

 colour from juices flowing through it, 143 ; that of the object con- 

 tributes to form an idea of the distance at which it appears, 1(>2 ; 

 of all those by which mankind is diversified, ours most beautiful to 

 the eye. and most advantageous, 183 ; those changes the African, 

 the Asiatic, or the American, undergo in their colour, are but 

 :':'.! defrrmitks. \\iiicii might probably be removed, I^G ; 

 nothing exceeds the delicate regularity of those of tlie y.cbra, '^Jl ; 

 Change of colour in tile hair obtains, in some degree, in all quad- 

 rupeds, 331 ; different in several parts of the fur of the sable, 33G. 



Comets, their appearance formerly terrible to mankind ; their 

 number much greater than that of (lie planets ; they roll in orbits; 

 f.xperiencc has not sufficiently confirmed the truth of the investi- 

 gation about their returning periods, y. 



Cnnijinj i<m, extremity of cold not less productive of a tawny than 

 that of heat ; not easy to conceive how the sun whitens wax and 

 linen, and darkens the human complexion ; the sun not the only 

 cause of darkening it ; tiie sun tinges the complexion in propor- 

 tion to its vicinity, 184, 1-5. 



Cumptc's (Lc) account of an ape he saw in the straits of Molucca, 

 401. 



Cunrt ir.,tif, scarce an animal, or a part of their bodies, in 

 which concretions are not formed ; experience has found but few 

 cures by the efficacy cf these concretions ; often prove fatal to the 

 animal that bears them, 'i'i'1. 



Conduiiiine (Iji) knows a fish possessed of the powers of the 

 torpedo, and every way resembling a lamprey, 1)37. 



Ciindoina, anomalous animal of the goat kind; its description, 

 253. 



Condor, poeses^es, in a !ii,/hf?r degree than the eagle, all the 

 qualities that render it f immlatdc In the leathered kind, to beasts, 

 a:..- : ' man hiin.self; is eighteen feut across this wings extended, 

 according lo Acosta, Gareilasso, and Desinarchais ; the beak so 

 strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; two of them able to devour 

 it; they do not abstain from man himself; fortunately there are 

 few of the species; the. Indians believe that they will carry off a 

 deer, or a young calf in their talons, as eagles would a hare 

 ar a rabbit ; and that their sight is piercing and their air 

 terrible ; that they seldom fiv'.uent the forests, as they require a 

 large space for the display of their wings ; they come down to the 

 -iM-shore at certain seasons; when their prey fails upon land, they 

 !hen feed upon dead fish, and such nutritious substances as are 

 thrown upon the shore ; their countenances not so terrible as old 

 writers have represented ; those who have seen this animal, say 

 the body isaslargc as that of a sheep ; many instances of its car- 

 rying away children ; circumstantial account of this bird by P. 

 I'euilee, the only traveller who has accurately described it ; it is 

 supposed that the great Bird called the Rock, described by Arabian 

 writers, and so much exaggerated by fable, is but a species of the 

 condor ; countries where it is found ; in the deserts of Pachoinac, 



men seldom venture to travel ; its flesh as disagreeable as carrion, 

 477, -; . 



"ilt, an animal resembling the skink in all things except 

 size, 3:;-i. 



/ of America, resembles the tiger in natural ferocily, 

 though far inferior in its dimensions. 4311. 



I'uni'i .utntn. See Hlttixl. 357. 



Cuiiao, the land and sea-brco/e- th> re. 101?; the inhabit 

 ;mtry desire ardently to pH> ; ;itnV their v. ives ,'uiil 

 strangers for trifling advantages, !')!>. 



l>lc, its cats ; name given to tiie genets, and why, 



Continent of America; that part under the line is cool ami 

 pleasant ; cither shaded by mountains, or refreshed by breezes 

 from the sea, li-l. 



Cunt, description of that bird, 572; residence and nest ; rears 

 two or three broods in a season; sometimes swims down 'i 

 rent, till it reaches the sea; dangers encountered in this voy- 



''. manner of making that vcsvo!, 41V 



('{i[niiiitiutt. natural instinct for the proper times ; instances of it. 

 Ul'i ; nats produce young without copulation, J-Jii. 



Cii'<nnUin the Bazilian squirrel, so called by BufFon, 3.V.?. 

 Ciiml, the common red never met witii in the fossil world, 13. 



('f'l'ni-tf : , , ilieti. 7o f *. 



Corul-pluntf, their various appearances ; opinion of count Mar- 

 sigli upon corals ; Mr. Ellis proves it the work of reptiles of the 

 polypus kind ; principal experiment to this purpose, 837, 838. 



Cura/ints called JWI1 until /-< 



Curi t. a sea snail, performs tin; office of male and female, 685. 



( 'o/cr used in dressing a burn iu the true Roman taste, 340. 



Cm-ill, name of the third variety of gazelles, by Mr. Buffon, 

 251. 



Cormorant, its description and food : remarkably voracious, with 

 a sudden digestion; has a rank and dis.iinveab'i' sine',! ; and is more 

 fciitid than even carrion ; its form disagreeable ; its voice hoarse and 

 croaking ; all its qualities obscene ; no wonder Mi'lou makes S;>t,' > 

 personate this bird ; objection :ijr, r iinst this passage of Milton 

 dise Lost vindicated; fisho:< in fresh water, and in the il pliis o. 

 the ocean ; builds in cliffs of reeks, and in trees : preyfl in : 

 time, and by night ; once used in F.ngland for ii . i what 



manner ; how educated in Chinn. for the purposes * : 

 best fisher of all birds ; a most .-11111181111: spectacle, stv 

 cliff on the shore to see it dive aitcr its prey ; son;&limvs h,i . e;T>r>h:. 

 thn nVh by the tail ; the fins prevent its bi-inn- s"-a'Vwi.d in tlia'. 

 position, how it manages the fish in this i -i ; remarked 



for the quickness of its sight . 



Corn, the flying squirrel is apt to do a great deal of damage iu 

 the corn-fields, 355. 



Cornaro, lived a hundred years with a constitution naturally 

 feeble, 174. 



Cornwall, pilchards make that coast a place of resort ; their 

 arrival proclaimed by the birds, and the larger fishes. ' 



Cftrtniuintlff, dreadful tempests wholly unknown along its 

 coasts, 1(I'<J ; amazing size of oysters along that coast. (Ml. 



C'orrira, or the Runner, a bird of the crane kind ; its descrip- 

 tion, 507. 



Corruption, excessive cold preserves bodies from it ; and a great 

 degree of dryness produced by heat ; eart.li. if drying and astrin- 

 gent, produces the same effect ; bodies never corrupt at Spitsber- 

 gen, though buried for thirty years ; men and animals buried in the 

 sands of Arabia, preserve. 1 from corruption fiir B i'-tually 



embalmed ; corruption of dead bodies entirely caused by the fer- 

 mentation of the humours: bodies buried in flu: monastery of the 

 Cordeliers at Tboulouse, preserved from corruption ' bodies pre- 

 viously embalmed buried in the sonds of Chorosaii. in Persia, pre- 

 served from corruption for a thousand years; an ;r, - ..ng preser- 

 vation from it, in a mummy lately ducr op in France, 1H5 to I 1 .)?'. 



Conjphftnti. the razor fi-.li. its oe-eription, 400. 



Cotojiaxi, volcano in South Ainencu, described by Utloa, 29; 

 more than three geographical miles above the surface of the sea, 44. 



Cotton-tree, the seed intoxicates parrots, as wine does man, 

 538. 



Coitus, the bull-head ; description of this fi--h, 04!). 



Ctniniido, much less than the porcupine, its description, 377. 



Cougar, the red tiger, by Mr. Buffon. 3011 ; extremelv common 

 in South America ; make frequent incursions by night into the 

 midst of the streets, carrying off dogs and other domcitic crea- 

 tures ; in what manner the Indians encounter it "01. 



Coulterneb, remarkable bird of the Penguin kind. Se Puffin, 

 590. 



