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jackal taken for the fox ; skin of the black fox most esteemed, a 

 single skin selling for forty or fifty crowns, the hair so disposed; 

 impossible to tell which way the grain lies, 323, 324 ; in Green- 

 land do not change colour at all, 331 ; many animals in this coun- 

 try bred between a dog and a fox ; experiments prove neither the 

 wolf nor the fcx of the same nature with the dog ; each a species 

 perfectly distinct, 315 ; nothing eatable comes amiss to them, rats, 

 mice, serpents, toads, and lizards ; insects, crabs, shrimps, and 

 shell-fish ; carrots, wax, and honey ; even the hedgehog, 323 ; 

 chase of the fox ; their offensive smell often the cause of their 

 death ; way they find to subsist ; name given by huntsmen to a 

 tbx of the second year ; old fox the name for the third year, 322, 

 323 ; exactly resembles the wolf and the dog internally, 322 ; de- 

 scription ; eyes obliquely situated like the wolf, 213; often takes 

 possession of the hole quitted by the badger, or forces it from its 

 retreat by art, 438. 



Fox (crost) name of the isatis. when turning white, 327. 



Fus-tailed monkey, of the sagoin kind, 412. 



France, its kings of the first race had whiskers knotted and 

 buttoned with gold, 145; under Francis I. peacocks served up at 

 the tables of the great, not to be eaten, but seen, 407. 



Frederic, emperor of Germany, wrote a treatise upon hawking, 

 402. 



Friczland, great inundations happened in it, 82. 



Vrieschaff, a hike where the sturgeon is found in great numbers, 

 640. 



Frog, designedly introduced into Ireland before the Norway 

 rat, 363; the rat put a stop to their increase, and the frog is almost 

 extinct in that kingdom, 3(i4 ; differences between it and the toad, 

 in figure and conformaliori ; tbe frog the beet swimmer of all four- 

 footed animals ; its description ; male or female have no external 

 instruments of generation ; the anus serving for that purpose in 

 both ; coupling of the common brown frog ; experiments to dis- 

 cover how their impregnation is performed ; the female not im- 

 pregnated by the mouth, as conjectured, nor by the thumbs, as 

 imagined by Linnreus, but by inspersion of male seminal fluid 

 upon the eggs proceeding from the body ; how the female brings 

 forth eggs ; various changes in the eggs after impregnation by the 

 male; the animal in its perfect state, from feeding upon vegetables, 

 hrn. njes carnivorous ; lives upon worms and insects, and seeks for 

 food upon land ; myriads seen on such occasions, have been fan- 

 cied to be generated in the clouds, and showered down on earth ; 

 tiieir habitudes and food ; differences of sexes not perceivable, un- 

 til their fourth year ; do not begin to propagate till that period ; 

 live about twelve years; a German surgeon kept one eight years 

 in a glass covered with a net, fed it often, but sparingly ; instances 

 of tenaciousness of life ; the male only croaks ; from their croak- 

 ing in some countries distinguished by the ludicrous name of 

 Dutch Nightingales ; large water-frog's note as loud as the bellow- 

 ing of a bull, and heard at three miles distance ; times of their 

 croaking ; no weather-glass so true in foretelling changes ; adhere 

 to the backs of fishes ; story of Walton to this purpose ; dry wea- 

 ther hurtful to frogs, 6<7, 698. See Fishing-frog. 



Frost, dry, augments evaporation, 168. 



Frost-smoke, fogs near the pole from halos, or luminous circles, 113. 



Froth-worm, its description, 77!). 



Fumes of hot iron, copper, or other metal, blown into the place 

 where an animal is confined, instantly destroys it, 93. 



Fur, the colder the country, the larger and warmer the fur ; 

 instances of it, 210 ; of the white fox not esteemed, and why, 325 ; 

 the isatis of no value, unless killed in winter, 327 ; the ermine the 

 most valuable of any, 331 ; no easy matter to account for warmth 

 of furs of northern quadrupeds, or how they come to have such 

 abundant covering ; particulars on this subject, ib. ; white weasel, 

 found in Great Britain, of no value ; ermine in evorv country 

 o lunges by time, 332; of the pole cat in less estimation than some 

 of inferior kinds, from its offensive smell, which can never be re- 

 moved, 334 ; of the yellow-breasted martin more valuable and 

 beautiful than the white, 335 ; different colours of the sable, 330 ; 

 of the genet valuable. 340 ; of the civet impregnated with the per- 

 fiime, 341 ; of the glutton has the most beautiful lustre, and is pre- 

 ferred to all except the Siberian sable, 344 ; of the hare forms a 

 considerable article in the hat manufacture, 348 ; of the cricetus, or 

 German rat, very valuable, 308 ; inside down of the vulture's 

 wing makes a warm and comfortable kind of fur, 479. 



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Gad-fly, formidable in Lapland ; brings on an incurable disorder 

 upon the rein-deer ; precautions used against them, 274. 

 Gadus, the cod-fish, its description, 050. 



Gaganda, island of Ethiopia ; parrots found there by the Ro- 

 mans, 529. 



Galam, a place 900 miles up the Senegal, taken from the French, 

 C2. 



Galen asserts the eggs of hens and pheasants good to be eaten ; 

 those of geese and ostriches worst of all, 400. 



Galinassos, Spanish name of vultures in America, 481. 



Gall of the shammoy held useful to strengthen the sight, 250 ; 

 the deer kind have none, 257. 



Gall-nuts, description of the insect forming and residing in 

 them, and its transformations, 824. 



Galley-fish, its description ; its legs adhesive ; common in 

 America, perpetually floating ; no efforts made to hurt, can make 

 it sink ; never perceived to move on shore, so strongly adhering to 

 whatever substances applied ; the smallest quantity of slimy sub- 

 stance from its legs, burns the skin like hot oil ; extremely common 

 along all tlie coasts in the Gulf of Mexico ; the shore covered 

 with them, a forerunner of a storm, 645. 



Galley-irorm, its difference from the scolopendra, 762. 



Game, sanguinary laws to preserve it, 261. 



Gangm. a river visited annually by a hundred thousand pilgrims, 

 who pay their devotions to it as to God, C2 ; in its course receives 

 twenty rivers, 63, 



Guiniet, the soland goose, its description; subsists upon fish; 

 places abounding with them ; manner of preserving them and their 

 eggs, in the island of St. Kilda; the inhabitants of that island 

 principally subsist on them throughout the year ; twenty-three 

 thousand of this kind of young birds consumed annually there ; a 

 bird of passage ; its migrations ; never comes near the land ; 

 where seen, it announces the arrival of herrings; exceeds the cor- 

 morant in quickness of sight ; method of taking its prey ; manner 

 of taking them at sea ; number of their eggs ; their young counted 

 a great dainty, and sold very dear, 582. 583. 



Garter-fish, the lipidopus, its description, 650. 



Gasterostcus, or tlie stickleback, description of this fish, 649. 



Gazelles, neither goat nor deer; partake of both natures ; they 

 form a distinct kind ; their description ; of all anirnnls it has the 

 most beautiful eye ; Eastern poets compare the eyes of their 

 mistresses to those of the gazelle ; Buffon makes but twelve va- 

 rieties ; their names and description* ; comparing them together, 

 we find but slight distinctions; are inhabitants of the warmer cli- 

 mates ; no animals, but of the winged kind, can overtake them ; 

 are pursued by falcons, and this hunting is a principal amusement 

 among the great in the East ; also hunted with the ounce ; another 

 way of taking them ; kep in solitary and inaccessible places, 

 250 to 253 ; the bubalus. more properly one of Africa, 272 ; the 

 most usual prey for the lion, in deserts and forests. 9P5 ; the prey 

 of the panther, 304 ; pursued by the jackal, makes towards houses 

 and towns, 326. 



Gek/to, a kind of salamander, 717. 



Generation most complete where fewest animals are produced, 

 132 ; late discovery that male fishes have two organs of genera- 

 tion, 612; all animals of the snail kind are hermaphrodites, each 

 containing the instruments of generation double, 685 ; these organs 

 in the mussel, 688 ; tlie male or female frogs have no external in- 

 struments for that use. 698. 



Genet, its odour more faint than civet ; description of this animal ; 

 resembles the martin ; more easily tamed ; Bellonius has seen them 

 at Constantinople tame as cats ; glands open differently from 

 others of its kind ; called the cat of Constantinople ; never found 

 in mountains or dry places ; its fur valuable ; species not much 

 diffused ; countries where it is found ; the most beautiful, cleanly, 

 and industrious animal ; keeps a house free from mice and rats by 

 its smell, 340. 



Genette, of the province of Andalusia the best, 218. 



Georgians, their description, 1*3. 



Gerenda. a serpent, to which the natives of Calicut and those of 

 the Mozambique coast pay divine honours, 741. 



Germanij, the meanest peasant kills a cow for his table, salts and 

 hangs it up, and preserves it as a delicacy all the year round, 281. 

 Gesner, minutely describes a variety of mouse-traps, 365; 

 places bats among birds, 381. 



Giant, in England, as late as King James I. the court had one, 

 188. 



Giants, probability of the race affirmed, possibility of their ex 

 istence denied; Grew's opinion ; Ferdinand Magellan, a Portu- 

 guese, first discovered a race of such people, towards the extreme 

 coast of South America ; assent to the existence of this <_ r igantie 

 race of mankind ; travellers confirm it ; seen here, have the same 

 defects of understanding as dwarfs ; are heavy, phlegmatic, stupid* 

 and inclined to sadness, 190 to 192. 



