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U'DEX. 



DOG 



more disagreeable pnrts ; mann.-r of . ars easily 



' uind ; :iiid browse rW;r tlwn the si '' k tin) female at 



their second year ; their strength, eunidng, and courage inferior to 

 those of tlic stag ; a more dolicale unim.il than ih have 



in En.rt'iud Uvo varieties oi'tlip fallow-deer, ono brought from Ben- 

 pal, the other from Norway ; flesh of this French fallow-dyer, lias 

 ' f.itnes-i or the flavour ef tht fed up. .11 English pasture ; 

 Spanish arid Virginia fallow-deer larger and stronger than ours; 

 d.'er without horns, their description, 21 15, 2'o<'>. 



Dcir (Jicin.) the most extraordinary and nio-st useful; native of 

 t';e icy regions of the North ; it answers the purposes of a horse -, 

 attempts made to accustom it to a morn southern climate, in a lew 

 months it declines and dii s ; answers the purpose of a cow in giving 

 nilk, and of the sheep in furnisljing warm clothing to the people of 

 Lapland and Greenland ; description of the rein-deer ; its rutl ing- 

 lime, and that of shedding its horns ; difference between this deer 

 and the stag ; it is not known to the natives of Siberia ; Americans 

 call it caribou ; herdsmen of Lapland known to possess a thousand 

 rein-deer in a single herd ; it subsists upon moss; and makes tile 

 riches of the people of Lapland ; gnats and gadflies very formidable 

 to this deer in Lapland ; female brings forth in May ; its milk thin- 

 ner than that of the cow; sweeter and more nourishing ; is of two 

 kinds in Lapland; it draws sledges; can go about thirty miles 

 without halting, and without dangerous effort ; generally castrated 

 by the Laplanders ; one male left for six females ; begin to bleed 

 when two years old ; go with young eight months, and bring two 

 at a time : fondness of the dam remarkable ; live but fifteen or six- 

 teen years ; manner in which the Laplanders kill them ; scarce any 

 part of this animal not converted to peculiar uses ; tiie Laplanders 

 tind their necessities supplied from the rein-deer alone ; in what 

 manner ; diseases of this animal ; the blood of the rein-deer pre- 

 served in small casks, for sauce v.'ith the marrow in spring ; the 

 horns converted into glue ; the sinews make the strongest sewing- 

 thread ; the tongues a great delicacy ; the intestines, washed like 

 our tripe, in high esteem among the Laplanders; bears make de- 

 predations upon the rein-deer ; glutton its most dangerous and suc- 

 cessful persecutor ; only method of escape from this creature, 272 

 to 276 ; in what manner the rein-deer is killed by it. :!!:! ; the wolf 

 never attacks a rein-deer that is haltered in Lapland, and why. 321. 



Drfurmity, children often inherit even the accidental delor- 

 inlties of their parents ; instances oi' it ; accidental deformities be- 

 come natural ; by assiduity continued and increased, through suc- 

 cessive generations, ]r-'5 ; all those changes the African, the Asiatic, 

 or the American, undergo in their colour, are accidental deformi- 

 ties probably to be removed, 18t>. 



Demoiselle, name given by the French to the Numidian bird, 558. 



Itiitvitti. a large serpent, native of .Mexico. 742. 



Derlirnt, pastures in these plains excellent for rearing horses, 21!). 



Derbyshire, description ol' the nest oi'au eagle found in the peak 

 of Derbyshire, -175. 



Derhtini, by a microscope, discovered in the eye of a mole, the 

 parts known in other animals. '.i7!. 



Desman, one of the three distinctions of the musk-rat ; a native 

 of Lapland, 307. 



Deri^, the Swedish Laplanders consult him, 178. 



l>i rll (Sea.) or fishing-frog described, (>43. 



Due compensates tin: want of showers in Egypt, 105. 



Diitblt.ret, a mountain of France suddenly fallen down ; its ruins 

 covered an extent of a large square, 4lJ. 



iHt'liuiiur^ts ol Arts und Sciences, a fault that has infected most 

 of them, 204. 



fa thin sparisg kind remarkable among quadrupeds, as 

 human species, to produce hair, 331. 



!)t<, r <*t?r, an instrument; moat and bones put into it, dissolved 

 into a jelly in six or eight minutes. '.Hi. 



Digcstum, these organ, in birds are in a manner reversed. 4.72 ; is 

 not perfect in all birds that live upon mice, lizards, or such like food, 

 48!) ; performed by some unknown principle in the stomach, acting 

 in a manner different from all kinds of artificial masceration ; this 

 luiimal power lodged in the maw of fishes, 60!). 



/.':.. 'i ties of the rein-deer; the manner in which the Laplanders 

 cure them, 277. 



Disorders, infectious, propagated by the effluvia from diseased 

 bodies, 95; most of these incidents to mankind, says Bacon, arise 

 from the changes of the atmosphere, Gil; fishes have their dis- 

 orders, 659. 



Diver (the great northern.) a bird of the smaller tribe of the pen- 

 guin kind ; the gray-speckled diver ; the scarlet-throated diver, 590. 



Divers known to descend from twenty to thirty fathom, 85 ; of 

 all those who have brought information from the bottom of the 

 tteep, Nicola Peace the most celebrated ; account of hie perform- 



ances by Kireher. 8fi ; some known to continue three quarters of 

 an hour under water, without breathing ; they usually die con- 

 sumptive ; manner of fishing for pearls. (\:>3. 



Dutlo, its description, 40!' ; among birds, as the sloth among 

 quadrupeds, an unresisting animal, equally incapable of flight or 

 defence ; native of the Isle of France ; the Dutch first discovered 

 it, a.nd called it the nauseous bird ; travellers deem its flesh good 

 and wholesome ; it, is easily taken ; three or foul' dodos enough to 

 dine a hundred men ; whether the dodo be the same bird with that 

 described under the name of the bird of Nazareth, remains uncer- 

 tain, 470. 



J)nc, the female of the deer kind, 266. 



Dogs, always running with their noses to the ground, supposed 

 of old the first that felt infection, 93 ; no other animal of the carni- 

 vorous kind will make a voluntary attack, but with the odds on 

 their side, '207; the Arabian horses outrun them, 9; in the dog 

 kind the chief power lies in the under jaw, 2S8 : in Syria, remark- 

 able for the fine glossy length and softness of their hair, 2,*2 ; in 

 tropical climates. lose the delicacy of their scent, and whv : the 

 lion, tiger, panther, and ounce, all natural enemies to the do:}. 305 : 

 dog kind not so solitary as those of the cat ; their proper prey are 

 animals unfitted for climbing ; they can live for some time upon 

 fruits and vegetables, 306 ; description of the dog ; knows n beggar 

 by his clothes, by his voice, or his gestures, and forbids his approach, 

 ib. ; the dor most susceptible o'" cliaiiire in its form. 310; all dogs 

 are of one kind ; which the original of all the rest, which the savage 

 dog, whence such a variety of descendants, is no easy matter to de- 

 termine; the shepherd's the primitive animal of his kind; those 

 wild in America and Congo, as those of Siberia, Lapland. Iceland, 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, of Madagascar. Madura, Calicut, and 

 Malabar, resemble the shepherd's dog ; those in Guinea, at llv 

 second or third generation, forget to bark ; dogs of Albany, of 

 Greece, of Denmark, and of Ireland, larger and stronger than any 

 other; shepherd's dog, transported into temperate climates, ami 

 among people entirely civilized, from influence of climate and Ibn.i 

 alone, becomes a matin, a mastiff, or a hound ; Turkish ilog ; /rrrtit 

 Danish itnir IT r cat wolf iloif. or Irish inilf ilo<r ; the liltie Daiiix/i. 

 dug ; their variety now in England much greater than in the reign 

 of queen Elizabeth; Dr. Cains divides t!:c whole race into three 

 kinds ; the generous, the farm-kind, the mongrel, 309 to 312 : 

 three shepherd's dogs reckoned a. match for a bear, and four for a 

 lion ; three of them overcame a lion in the time of king James thu 

 First; the famous poet Lord Surry, the first who taught dogs to 

 set ; the pnp flog ; the English buil flo;f ; the lion dog, originallv 

 from Malta ; its description ; the Molossian dogs of the ancients, 

 according to Mr. BufFon ; l';>irotic il^ifx. mentioned by Pliny ; /- 

 tlian (In:.'.--, mentioned by .l^ian ; his description of a combat be- 

 tween a dog and a lion : the bravest of the kind ; the nobler kinds 

 of dogs, of which such brauiii'ul ancient descriptions, now utlerl\ 

 unknown, 313, 314; puppies' eyes not open till ten or twelve 

 days old ; dog's teeth am.'iiiit to forty-two ; this animal capable of 

 reproducing at the age ot' twelve months ; goes nine weeks with 

 youue; ; and lives abeut twelve vears : other particulars concerning 

 dogs ; many kinds of birds the doirs will not touch ; dogs and vul- 

 tures living wild about Grand Cairo in Egypt, continue together 

 in an amicable manner, and are known to hrinn- up their youn-j in 

 the same nest ; dogs bear hunger tin- a long time ; a bitch f,-. 

 ten in a country house, lived forty days without any otlr-r 

 nance than the wool of a quilt she had torn in pieces, 31(i. 317; 

 the wild hunt in packs; unknown, such as he was before the pro- 

 tection of man; some from n don- . have turned savage, 

 and partaken of the disposition of the wolf, and attack tlie most 

 formidable animals of the forest ; are easily tamed, and quickly be- 

 come familiar and submissive, 309 ; experiments to prove the volt" 

 and the, fox not of the same nature with the dog, but' of a nature 

 perfectly distinct ; animals in this country bred between a dij 

 a fox ; a d >L; set at. liberty in his s:ivag:; fury Hew upon every ani- 

 mal, fowls, dogs, and men. 310; the clog and the wolf so much alike 

 internallv. lint anatomists can scarce perceive the difference 317; 

 a younj 1 dog shudders at the sight of a wolf: dogs and wolves so dif- 

 ferent in their d'> ii it no animals have a more perfect an- 

 tipathy, 313 ; by instinct, without education, dogs take care of flocks 

 and herds, ib. ; show no appetite to enjoy their victory when the 

 wolf is killed, but leaves him wiiere he falls, 321; Calosby asserts 

 the wolf was the only dog used by the Americans, before the Eu- 

 ropeans came among them, and they have since procreated together ; 

 thus proving the dog and the wolf of the same species ; unsur- 

 mountable antipathy between the dog and the jackal) ; they never 

 pa.rt without an engagement. 32G ; famished dogs more hairy than 

 those whose food has been more plentiful, 331 ; all kinds pursue 

 the hare by instinct and follow it more eagerly than other animals : 



