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INDEX. 



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Grave, the greatest care recommended not to commit those 

 dearest to us to the grave, before real signs of certain death be 

 ascertained, 177. 



Greta/i, river in Yorkshire running under ground, and rising 

 again, 66. 



Grebe, description of this bird ; residence and habits ; perpetual- 

 ly diving, and very difficult to be shot ; never seen on land ; chief- 

 ly sought for the skin of its breast, and why ; in breeding-time 

 their breasts are bare, 573. 



Gree7ijinch, bird of the sparrow kind, 537. 



Greenland, Cntntz's account of the formation of ice-monntains 

 in that country, 72, 73 ; aurora bortalis, its appearance almost con- 

 stant in winter ; the inhabitants not entirely forsaken in the midst 

 of their tedious night, this aurora- affording them light for the pur- 

 poses of existence, 1 13 ; they live mostly upon seals ; their number 

 daily diminishing, and why, 306. 



(ir?ri<lunde,rs, described, 178; customary among them to turn 

 I'uropciiiis into ridicule ; a quiet, or a modest stranger, they deem 

 almost as well bred as a Greenlander, 179. 



Gifir, his opinion concerning dwarfs and giants, 190. 



Greyhound kind, 312 ; greyhound fox, 325. 



Grii, the petit gris, Mr. Burton's name for the gray Virginian 

 squirrel. 3-Y.'. 



Grusslteak, bird of the sparrow kind, 538. 



Grotto of .iiuijniros, in the Archipelago, the most remarkable 

 subterraneous cavern now known ; description, 28. 



Grotto del Cane, near Naples, situation and description ; noxious 

 effects, 25. 



Groits, chiefly found in heathy mountains and pinv forests, 505. 



Growth of the child less every year, till the time of puberty, 

 when it starts up of a sudden ; growth of the mind in children cor- 

 responds with that of the body, and why, 135, 136 ; of some young 

 people ceases at fourteen or fifteen ; of others continues till two 

 or three and twenty, 140 ; of fishes irregular and tardy, (J57. 



Guadulquii'er, river in Spain buried iu sand, 60. 



Guanarues, a kind of camel in America, 434. 



Guam-lies, ancient inhabitants of the island of TenerifF; art of 

 embalming still preserved among them, when the Spaniards con- 

 quered the island, 194. 



Giuiribu, Brasilian guariba, or warine, the largest of the monkey- 

 kind in America, described, 412. 



Guayaquil, river in South America, 43. 



Gat/aeon, fresh-water sort, as well as the anchovy, has no bladder, 

 61 1 ; description of this fish, 648. 



Guiba. animal resembling the gazelle ; its description, 253. 



Guilltmut, bird of the smaller tribe of the penguin kind, 500. 



Guinea, the natives kill numbers of hares at a time, and in what 

 manner, 348. 



Guinea-ass, larger a.nd more beautiful than the horse, 226. 



Guinea-lit n. described, 503. 



Guinea-horse., remarkable exercise and sports with it among the 

 grandees of that country, 220. 



Guinea-pig, by Brisson placed among the rabbit kind ; native of 

 the warmer climates ; rendered domestic, and now become common 

 every where ; its description ; in some places a principal favourite ; 

 often displacing the lap-dog ; manner of living among us ; most 

 helpless and inoffensive, scarce possusse j of any courage ; their ani- 

 mosity exerted against each other ; often right obstinately, and the 

 stronger destroys the weaker ; no natural instinct, the female sees 

 her young destroyed without attempting to protect them ; suffer 

 themselves to be devoured by cats ; fed upon recent vegetables, 

 they seldom drink; sometimes gnaw clothes, paper, or other things 

 of the kind , drink by lapping ; confined in a room, seldom cross 

 the floor, but keep along the wall ; never move abreast together ; 

 chiefly seek the most intricate retreats, and venture out only when 

 all interruption is removed, like the rabbits ; in cold weather more 

 active ; a very clennly animal ; their place must be regularly 

 cleaned, and a new bed of hay provided for them once a week ; the 

 young falling into the dirt, or other ways discomposed, the female 

 takes an aversion to them, and never permits them to visit her 

 more ; her employment and that of the male, consists in smoothing 

 their skins, disposing their hair, and improving its gloss, and take 

 this office by turns ; do the same to their young, and bite them 

 when refractory ; reared without any artificial heat ; no keeping 

 them from tire in winter if once permitted to approach it ; manner 

 of sleeping ; the male and female watch one another by turns ; 

 never seen both asleep at the same time ; generally capable of 

 coupling at six weeks old; time of their gestation; the female 

 brings forth from three to five at a time ; not without pain ; the fe- 

 male admits the male the very day she ban brought forth, and again 



NO. 77 & 7*. 



becomes pregnant ; suckles her young about twelve or fifteen days, 

 and suffers the young of others, though older, to drain her, to tkn 

 disadvantage of her own ; produced with eyes open, and in twelve 

 hours equal to the dam in agility ; capable of feeding upon vegeta- 

 bles from the beginning ; their disputes for the warmest place, or 

 most agreeable lood ; manner of fighting ; moat timorous creature 

 upon earth, a lalling leaf disturbs them, and every animal overcomes 

 them ; flesh indifferent food ; difficultly tamed ; suffer no approaches 

 but of the person who breeds them ; manner of eating; drink sel- 

 dom, and ui..k writer often; grunt like a young pig; appear to 

 chew the cud, 3GI) to :;i;-j 



Guineji-flir.rp, have a kind of dewlap under the chin ; breed with 

 other sheep, therefore not animals of another kind, 244. 



Qv&ratemg&i name given by the natives of Brasil to the little 

 taovd-pr.c.kr.r, 521. 



Gulls, places where found in plenty; their food, 584; various 

 ways of imposing upon each oilier ; contests in breeding ; resi- 

 dence, with their nests und eggs ; their flesh : method of taking 

 them in the P'eroe islands; anciently n law in Norway concerning 

 those who died in taking them, riSV 



Gulf, the Persian ; deadly wind along its coasl.--. I'l.'i: chief pearl 

 fishery carried on there, tiH2. 



Gun, wind-gun, instrument determining the elasticity of the air ; 

 a ball from it pierces a thick board, 90 ; great guns, in climates 

 near the equator, with every precaution, after some years become 

 useless, and why. !>'->. 



Gunpowder, readily fires with a spark, not with the flame, 24; 

 will not go off in an exhausted receiver ; a train of gunpowder laid, 

 one part in open air, the other part in vacuo, the latter will remain 

 untouched, 97. 



Gunmrd, description of this fish, 649. 



Gustavus Jidoljtl.us, attempted in vain to form a regiment of 

 Laplanders, as they can live but in their own country, and in their 

 own manner, 178. 



Guts, most birds have two blind guts, which in quadrupeds are 

 found single, 452. 



Gymiwtus, the Curapo, description of this fish, 640. 



Gyr-faleou, exceeds all others in largeness of size ; its descrip- 

 tion, 483. 



Gyrle, name given by hunters to the roebuck, the second 

 year, 268. 



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Ifnl>it, contracted during life, to make out pleasures and pains ip 

 extremes, though either can hardly be suffered or enjoyed to the 

 utmost, 177. 



Haddock, a periodical shoal appeared on the Yorkshire coasts, on 

 December 10, 171)6, and exactly on the same day in the following 

 year, 653. 



Hteniorrhois, a kind of serpent, 730. 



Hail, Cartesians say, is a frozen cloud half-melted and frozen 

 again in its descent ; the most injurious meteor in our climate ; 

 hail-stones fourteen inches round ; struck out an eye of a young 

 man, and killed him on the spot ; a dreadful shower recorded by 

 Mezeray, fell in 15)0; the hail-stones were of a blueish colour, and 

 some weighed a hundred pounds ; the fishes were general sufferers 

 in that great calamity, 109, 110. 



Hair of the Roman ladies praised for the redness of its shade, 

 140; the hair under the temples and at the back of the head seldom 

 known to fail ; found most different in different climates ; marks the 

 country and the disposition of tlje man ; by the ancients held a sort 

 of excrement, produced like the nails ; according to moderns, every 

 hair lives, receives nutriment, fills and distends, like other parts of 

 the body ; takes colour from the juices flowing through it ; each, 

 viewed with a microscope, consists of five or six lesser, wrapped up 

 in one common covering, and sends forth branches at the joints ; 

 suitable to the size or shape of the pore through which it issues ; 

 bulbous at the root, and its ends resemble a brush; length and 

 strength of hair a mark of a. good constitution ; Americans and the 

 Asiatics have it thick, black, straight, and shining ; inhabitants of 

 the torrid climates of Africa have it black, short, and woolly ; the 

 people of Scandinavia have it red, long, and curled ; opinion that 

 every man has dispositions resembling tho.-e of the inhabitants of 

 countries he resembles in the colour and nature of his hair ; curled 

 hair among us a beauty ; the Greeks have taken one of their na 

 tional distinctions from the length and straightness of the hair, 

 142, 143 ; Americans take the greatest pains in cutting their hair ; 

 the Tartars waved a long and bloody war with the Persians be- 

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