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few dogs dare to encounter the otter ; some purposely trained for 

 discovering the retreat of the otter, 388. 



Dog-butchers all over China, and shambles for selling their 

 flesh ; wherever a dog-butcher appears, all the dogs in the place 

 are in full cry after him ; along the coast of Guinea their flesh is 

 esteemed a delicacy by the Negroes ; they give a cow for a dog, 

 315. 



Dolphin caught in the Red Sea, known by a ring to be the 

 name taken before in the Mediterranean, 77 ; allured by music, 165 ; 

 not easy to assign a cause why the undents have invented so 

 many fables on the subject; their boundings in the water, have 

 taught mariners to prepare for a storm ; old painters nnd sculptors 

 have drawn them wrong ; the poets have adopted the error ; 

 Pliny has asserted, they instantly die when taken out of the water; 

 Rondelet assures us, he has seen a dolphin carried alive from 

 Montpelier to Lyons ; found in such vast numbers in all parts of 

 the sea that surrounds this kingdom, as to be noxious to the fisher- 

 men ; their motions the gambols of pleasure, or the agitations of 

 terror, not well known ; in fair weather they herd together, and 

 pursue shoals of various fish with impetuosity ; method of killing 

 them, b'24. 68o. 



Dolphin is also the name of the ophidium, or the gilt-head, 648. 



Don, or Tanais, a river, its course, til ; the sturgeon is caught 

 in great quantities at the mouth of that river, 640. 



Dorado, supposed a ruminating fish, 232 ; a fish of the spinous 

 kind, the most voracious; the most active and most beautiful of 

 ; he finny region ; its description ; the flying fish is chiefly sought 

 by it ; warfare carried on between them, t'>5ti. 



Doree, description of this fish, 649. 



Dormouse, the mercury of the thermometer plunged into the 

 body of a living dormouse never rose beyond its pitch m air, and 

 sometimes sunk above a degree, 357 ; the greater sort Mr. Buffon 

 calls the loir, the middle size he calls the terot, and the less he 

 denominates the muscardin ; their descriptions ; agree in being 

 stupitied like the marmout during winter; their nest and provi- 

 sions ; they bring forth three or four young at a time, but once a 

 'ear, in spring, 30(i. 



Dorr-beetle, or May-bug, 819. See Beetle. 



Dottrel, small bird of the crane kind, 568. 



Doves, the stock-dore, 529 ; the turtle-dove, 531 ; the ring-dore, 

 532. See Pigeon. 



Dour, a monkey of the ancient continent, so called in Cochin- 

 China, where it is a native ; its description ; forms part of the 

 chain by which the monkeys of one continent are linked with those 

 of the other, 411. 



I)ri;eo rolans. a flying ball of fire, 111. 



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



Dragons, the whole race dwindled down to the flying lizard, 721. 



Dragon-fly, or the fibeltn, described, 7tlti. 



Dragunet, description of this fish, 648. 



Dress, the first impression generally made, arises from dress, 146. 



Drill, of Purchas, an ape of the kind of the ouran-outang, 399. 



Dromedary, a sort of camel, 430. 



Drone, a ruminating insect, or seemingly so, 232. 



Drones, the second sort of bees, supposed to be the males, 

 798 ; their cells, 803 ; the workimr-bees kill the drones in the 

 worm-state in the cell, and eject them from the hive among the 

 general carnage, 806. 



Drugs, in the tropical climates lose their virtue, and become ver- 

 jninous, 92. 



Drum, among the Swedish Laplanders every family has one for 

 consulting the devil, 178 ; hares taug-ht to beat the drum, 347. 



Dryness, a great degree of it produced by heat, preserves from 

 corruption, 195. 



Duck, when ducks are caught, the men keep a piece of turf burn- 

 ing near their mouths, and breathe upon it, lest the fowl smelling 

 them should escape, 451 ; of the numerous tribes of the duck kind, 

 no more than five breed here, 457; Plutarch assures us Cato kept 

 his family in health, feeding them with duck whenever they 

 threatened to be out of order, 5!)3 ; its eggs often laid under a 

 hen ; seems a heedless inattentive mother ; of the tame duck, ten 

 different sorts ; and of the wild, Brisson reckons above twenty ; 

 the most obvious distinction between the wild and tame ducks ; 

 difference between wild ducks among each other ; sea and pond 

 ducks ; names of the most common birds of the duck kind, among 

 ourselves, and of the most noted of the foreign tribe ; the Ameri- 

 can wood-duck ; their habits, nests, and number of eggs ; are, in 

 general, birds of passage ; their flesh ; the ducks flying in the air, 

 often lured down from their heights by the loud voice of the mal- 

 lard from below ; what part of the lake they generally choose ; 

 what can employ them all day, not easy to guess ; manner of 



NO. 77 &, 78. 



making and managing a decoy to tulm C, < -i sensors for 



catching them in decoys, from the end "- 

 taking them earlier prohibited by an act of C 

 imposing a penally of five shillings for every bird rentroyert ,. .i'iy 

 other season; ama'/ing quantity of durk* *eni t j :n:p]J> I'.IG mar- 

 kets of London: manner of taking them frequently practised in 

 China, 597 to t;n|. 



Dung, some animals void it when pursued ; this arises rather 

 from fear than a desire of defence, 23i). 



Dunlin, a small bird of the crane kind, 5GS. 



Dutch, solicitous nbout the preservation of the stork, in every 

 part of their republic, ;V>(>. 



Dwarf, in England, as late as the times of King James the 

 First, the court was furnished with one ; and he was called Little 

 Jeffrey ; Peter of Russia celebrated a marriage of dwarfs, 188, 189; 

 they seem to have faculties resembling those of children ; history 

 of a dwarf accurately related by Mr. Daubenton, ib. 



Dwinn, a river ; its course and source, 61. 



Eagle-kind, the flap of an eagle's wing known to lay a man 

 dead in an instant, 450 ; it flies at the bustard or the pheasant, 471 ; 

 distinctive marks from the other kinds of carnivorous birds ; the 

 golden eagle is the largest and noblest of all those birds designated 

 by the name of eagle ; its description ; its sight and sense of 

 smelling very acute ; breed among the loftiest cliffs, and choose 

 those places most remote from man ; considered among birds as 

 the lion among quadrupeds ; strong similitude to each other ; 

 great patience, and much art. required to tame an eagle; though 

 taken young, and brought under by long assiduity, yet it is a dan- 

 gerous domestic, and often turns its force against its master ; 

 sometimes has an attachment for its feeder ; it is then serviceable, 

 and will provide for his pleasure and support ; flies the highest of 

 all birds, and from thence has by the ancients been called the bird 

 of heaven ; it has also the quickest eye ; but its sense of smelling 

 is far inferior to that of the vulture ; it never pursues, but in 

 sight ; finds difficulty in rising when down ; carries away geese, 

 cranes, hares, lambs, and kids, and often destroys fawns and calves', 

 to drink their blood, and carries a part of their flesh to its retreats ; 

 infants when left unattended, have been destroyed by these rapa- 

 cious creatures ; the eagle is peculiarly formidable when bringing 

 up its young ; a poor man got a comfortable subsistence for his 

 family, during a summer of famine, out of an eagle's nest, by rob- 

 bing the eaglets of food ; eagles killed a peasant who had robbed 

 their nests ; there is a law in the Orkney islands, which entitles 

 any person that kills an eagle to a hen out of every house in the 

 parish in which the plunderer is killed ; the nest of the eagle is 

 usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock ; description 

 of one found in the Peak of Derbyshire ; it hatches its eggs for 

 thirty days ; very rare to find three eaglets in the same nest ; and 

 it is asserted, that the mother kills the most feeble, or the most vo- 

 racious ; it is believed they live about an hundred years, and that 

 they die, not of old age, but from the beaks turning inward upon 

 the under jaw, and preventing their taking any food ; an eagle en- 

 dured hunger for twenty-one days, without any sustenance what- 

 ever ; they are first white, then inclining to yellow, and at last 

 light brown; age, hunger, captivity, and diseases, make them 

 whiter ; those kept tame are fed with every kind of flesh, fresh 

 or corrupting ; and upon a deficiency of that, bread, or any other 

 provision, will suffice ; it is dangerous approaching them, if not 

 quite tame, and they sometimes send forth a loud piercing lamenta- 

 ble cry, which renders them still more formidable ; they drink but 

 seldom, and perhaps, when at liberty, not at all ; the bald eagle an 

 inhabitant of North Carolina ; breeds in that country all the year 

 round : manner in which the eggs are hatched ; characteristics and 

 habitudes of this animal ; its nest is large enough to fill the body of 

 a cart, and commonly full of bones, half eaten, and putrid neshj 

 the stench of which is intolerable, 473 to 476. 



Eagle, the sea-eagle called aquila poimbina by the Italians ; 

 they often lay three or four eggs, of a less size than those of a 

 hen, of a white elliptical form ; distinctive marks of the goldm- 

 eagle, of the common eagle, of the bald eagle, of the white eagle, 

 475, 476; of the rough-footed, eagle, of the white-tailed eagle, of 

 the erne, of the Mock eafle, of the sea eagle, of the osprey, of tho 

 jean le blanc, of the Brazil eagle, of the Oroonoko eagle, of the 

 crot.-iicd African eagle, of the f agle of Pondicherry, 476. 



Ears, distinguishing features in quadrupeds ; serve in them as 

 principal marks of the passions ; smallest ears in men said to be 

 most beautiful ; the largest the best for hearing ; some savage na 

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