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ing all opposition and resistance ; can overturn a fanoe with a sin- 

 gle blow of its tail ; terrible even upon land ; its depredations ; 

 combats between the crocodile and the tiger ; in what manner it 

 seizes its prey ; there is no animal but man alone that can combat 

 it with success ; hnw a negro ventures to attack this animal in its 

 own element ; manner of taking it at Siuiu ; often managed like a 

 horse ; a curb put into its mouth, and the rider directs it as lie likes ; 

 makes an object of savage pomp near the palacos of their monarchs ; 

 manner of taking it uong the rivers of Africa; pools of water 

 where bred, as we breed carp in our ponds ; in Egypt, and other 

 long-peopled countries, this animal solitary and fearful ; in the river 

 San Domingo, they are most inoffensive, children play with them, 

 and ride about on their backs ; beat them without receiving the 

 smallest injury ; probable opinion, its musky substance amassed in 

 glands under the legs and arms ; its flesh ; the eggs to the savages 

 most delicate morsels ; all breed near fresli waters ; precautions in 

 laying their eggs; the female having introduced her young to 

 their natural element, she and the male become their most formida- 

 ble enemies ; their eggs eagerly sought after by every bird and 

 be;ist of prey ; the Gallinazo (a species of the vulture) their greatest 

 rnemv ; th<; open-bellied crocodile, thought viviparous ; his a false 

 belly like the oppossum, for the young to creep out and in, as dan- 

 ger or necessity requires ; their age ; produced to fight at the am- 

 phitheatre at Koine, 711 to 71(1. 



Croppers, a kind of pigeons, 530. 



Crossbill, a bird of the sparrow kind, 537. 



Cross-fax, animal between the dog and fox, 320. 



Crown, in the head of a stag, 3t!2. 



Crotcs fetch and carry with the docility of a spaniel, 512; the 

 rarrinii-crow resembles the raven in appetites, laying, and manner 

 of bringing up its young; the Roystcn-crow, 514. 



Cruelty, teaching the arts of cruelty, equivalent to committing 

 them, 495. 



Crustaceans, animals of the lobster kind, 6G3. 



Cu/i, the fox is so called during the first year, 323 ; born blind, 

 like those of the dog, 324. 



Cuckoo, fables invented of this bird now sufficiently refuted ; where it 

 resides in winter, or how provides for its supply during that season, 

 still undiscovered ; this bird somc<vliat less tfian a pigeon, shaped 

 like a magpie, and of a grayish colour; is distinguished from all 

 other by its round prominent nostrils ; discovers itself in our couu- 

 1 ry early in the spring, bv its well known call; its note heard ear- 

 lier or later as the season is more or less forward, and the weather 

 inviting ; from the cheerful voice of this bird Ihe farmer instructed 

 in the real advancement of the year ; from this bird's note, the hus- 

 bandman mav be taught when to sow his most useful seeds ; history 

 and nature of this bird still in great obscurity ; its call an invitation 

 t.o courtship, used only by the male, generally perched upon a dead 

 tiee, or bare bough, repeating his song, which he loses when the 

 genial season is over ; his note pleasant though uniform ; the female 

 makes no nest ; repairs to the nest of some other bird, generally the 

 water-wagtnil or hedge-sparrow, and, after devouring the eggs of 

 the owner, lays her's in their place ; usually lays but one, and this 

 the little foolish bird hatches with great assiduity, and when ex- 

 rjuded fondly thinks the ill-looking changeling her own ; to supply 

 Ibis voracious creature, the credulous nurse toils with unwearied 

 labour, not sensible she is feeding up an enemy to her race ; the 

 stomach of this bird is enormous, and reaches from (he breast-bone 

 to the vent ; its food ; naturally weak and fearful ; the smaller birds 

 misiJer the young cuckoo as an enemy ; revenge the cause of their 

 kind by repeated insults, and form a train of pursuers ; the wry- 

 neck in particular, the most active in the ehace ; supposed, in win- 

 ter, to lie hid in hollow trees, or to pass into warmer climates; story 

 of a cuckoo found in a willow log, in winter ; probable opinion con- 

 cerning its residence in winter ; Brisson makes not less th:m twenty- 

 eight sorts of this bird ; and tiilks of one of Brazil, as making a hor- 

 rible noise in the forests, 523, 524 ; follows a very different trade 

 from what its nurse endeavoured to teach it; and, according to 

 Pliny, in time destroys its instructer, 5 ( J7. 



Cuckoo-spit, or froth-worm, its description, 779. 



Cud, the hare, the rabbit, and the squirrel, placed by Pyerius 

 among those that chew the cud ; how far true is not determined, 345. 



t'n^nnt'.i fijxini. name in Brazil for the roe-buck, 2*i9. 



Cummin-seed, formerly used in dressing a hare in true Roman 

 taste, 349. 



Cur, the cur-fox, 325. 



Curlew, a small bird of the crane kind ; its dimensions ; places 

 where found ; manner of procuring its food ; its habits ; its nest, 

 and number of eggs ; a bird of passage ; our country, during the 

 summer season, becomes uninhabitable to them ; season of court- 

 rtiip, 568 to 570, 



Currents of rivers well explained by the Italians, 5f>; side, current ; 

 back current, CO ; sometimes the current at bottom swifter than al. 

 top, and when ; double current, ib. ; found to run in all directions ; 

 manner in which mariners judge of the setting and rapidity of the 

 current ; currents are generally found most violent under the equa- 

 tor ; along the coasts of Guinea, if a ship happens to overshoot the 

 mouth of any river it is bound to, the current prevents its return ; 

 a passage, with the current, gone in two days, with difficulty per- 

 formed in six weeks against it ; currents do not extend itbove twenty 

 leagues from the coast ; the currents at Sumatra extremely rapid, 

 run from south to north; also strong currents between Mndngasrar 

 and the Cape of Good Hope ; on the western coasts of America, this 

 current always runs from the south to the north ; but the most re- 

 markable are those continually flowing into the, Mediterranean s -.1 . 

 between the North and the South Foreland, the current runs one 

 way at top, and the ebb another way at bottom, 7(i to 7*. 



Current of air, driven through a contracted space, grows more 

 violent, 104. 



CILSCO, Garcilasso do la Vcgo asserts the air is so dry and so cold 

 there, that flesh dries like wood without corrupting, 195. 



Ciiftom, the form of the face seems rather the result of cus- 

 tom, i 



l.uttlr-fish, its description ; contrivance with which it is furnished 

 by nature, when under a difficulty of escaping, 833. 



Cybotus, a lofty mountain swallowed by an earthquake, 47. 



Cijnocephalus, the Magot of Buffon, the last of the ape kind ; its 

 description ; is a native of Africa and the East, 404. 



Cyprinus, or the carp. See Carp, 650. 



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Dam, in the rapacious kinds, leads her young forth for months 

 together ; it is not so with those of the hare kind, 34<i. 



Dam/tier, has added more to natural history than half the philo- 

 sophers before him, (374. 



Damps, of various natures in mines ; the fulminating sort, 23, 24. 



Dance, hares taught to dance to music, 347. 



Dane, the tallest dog bred in Kngland, 312, 313. 



Danube, has seven openings into (he t'uxiiit! Sea, 39 ; proceeds 

 from the Alps, 42 ; its course ; the Turks and Christians have fleets 

 of men of war upon it, 61 ; it receives thirty lesser rivers. (14 ; the 

 huso, or isinglass-tish, caught in great quantities in tiie river, 042. 



Dam, its inhabitants use ostriches as horses. 4C5. 



Darkness, surprising how far the eye accommodates itself to it, 

 1b'3; remarkable instance of it in a gentleman, a major under 

 Charles the First, 103. 



Dmilmton gives a complete history of a dwnrf. 1^9. 



Deaf men often found to see the force of those reasonings wiiich 

 they could not hear, understanding every word as it was spoken, 

 108 ; one born deaf, must necessarily be dumb ; inst-tncesof two young 

 men, who, born deaf, were restored to hearing, 1(J7 ; a person born 

 deaf, by time and pains taught to write, read, speak, and by the mo- 

 tion of the lips to understand what is said; instances of it, UH. 



Deafness one of the most common disorders in old age ; way t<j 

 know this defect cither internal or external. Hi7. 



Death, a young man born deaf and dumb, knew nothing of death, 

 and never thought of it till the age of twenty-four, when he began 

 to speak of a sudden, 107; a spectre, which frights us nt a distance, 

 but disappears when we come to approach it, 170; uncertainty of 

 the signs of death, 177. 



Deer, annually shedding horns, and their permanence in the sheep, 

 draws a distinct line between their kinds, 241; the little Guinea- 

 deer, the least of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and most beautiful; 

 its description, 253; the male in Gniiu-;i has horns, but the fcmalq 

 is without ; they abound in Java and Ceylon, ib. ; all of the deer- 

 kind want the gall-bladder, 2~>7 ; a downy substance, like velvet, 

 upon the skin, covering the skull of a deer, when, the old horn is 

 fallen off; their horns grow differently from those of sheep or cows j 

 they are furrowed along the sides, and why, 257 ; the bran-deer, or 

 the brown-deer, called by the ancients fragelaphus, found in the 

 forests of Germany ; the new continent of America produces ani- 

 mals of the deer-kind in sufficient plenty, 205. 



Deer (Fallow,} no animals more nearly allied than the stag and 

 fallow-deer, yet they never herd nor engender together, nor form, 

 a mixed breed ; each form distinct families, and retain an unalter- 

 able aversion ; the fallow-deer, rarely wild in the forests ; are in gene- 

 ral bred in parks, and their flesh is preferred to that of any other ani- 

 mal ; a herd of them divides into two parties, and engages each other 

 with great ardour and obstinacy ; bothdesirMis.of y; lining a favourite 

 spot of the park for pasture, and of driving the vanquished into tka 



