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country, and afterwards retired, 81 ; inundation of the Thames at I 

 Dagenham in Essex, 83; instantly produced by land spouts, 115. 



ln-i r/s, in the internal parts of South America and Africa, they ! 

 grow to a prodigious size, and why; those of the minute kind in j 

 the northern climates not half so large as in the temperate znr ; 

 the ocean has its insects ; their feet are placed upon their !>: 

 and almost all without eyes, 120; in some countries almost darken 

 the air, and a candle cannot be lighted without their instantly fly- 

 ing upon it, and putting out the flame, 122 ; and 827 ; many may 

 be multiplied by being cut in pieces, 125 ; many of the tribes 

 brought forth from the e^g, 126 ; have no eye-lids whatsoever, 

 142; the Indians are fearful of killing the meanest, 181 ; quickly 

 brought to change and adapt themselves to the clim-ite, 205 : have 

 their stomachs composed of muscular fibres ; of a ruminating 

 kind, 232 ; afford so gre.it a variety as to elude the search of the 

 most inquisitive pursuer, 448 ; those \vith the greatest number of , 

 legs move the slowest. 633 ; the general definition of insects. 744 : 

 the different classes, 7-15 : general characteristics of insects without 

 wings, 746 ; of those that have wings. 7b'6 ; some continue under 

 the form of an aurelht not ten days ; some twenty ; some several 

 months, and even for a year, 789 ; general rule, that the female is 

 larger than the male, 794 ; every insect that lives a year after its 

 full growth, is obliged to pass four or five months without nourish- 

 ment, and will seem to be dead all that time, 817 ; description of 

 that which forms and resides in the gall-nut, 824. 



Instinct of all animals in choosing the proper times of copula- 

 tion, 212; the Guinea-pig lias not that natural instinct so common 

 to almost every other creature, 380. 



Intestines, in all animals the size of the intestines proportioned ; 

 to the nature of the food. 207; intestines of ruminating animals 

 enlarged by nature, to take in a greater supply ; those of the car- ! 

 nivorous kind are short, 231 ; also thin and lean ; but of the mini- ; 

 nating are strong, fleshy, and covered witli fat, 232; of sheep 

 found to be above thirty times the length of the body ; those of the 

 wild cat not above three times the length of its body, 291 ; this j 

 shortness still unaccounted for, 292 ; of the rein-deer washed like 

 our tripe, in high esteem among the Laplanders, 277 ; of the bat, I 

 in some measure resemble those of man, 1123 ; those of the manati 

 longer, in proportion, than those of any other creature, the horse 

 exempted, 3!'r ; the tribe of woodpeckers want that intestine called 

 the csecum, 513; the lamprey seems to have but one, Ii3!> ; those j 

 of the crab have many convolutions, 666. 



Jnlmdorif, Quin noted for a sauce to this fish, 013. 



JrHii'!*, hair in its crrowth sends forth branches at the joints, 143. j 



Junelin has obliged the curious with the first accurate descrip- 

 tion of the form and mture of the sable. 331!. 



Ire.lnnd not infested with wolves, 391 ; frogs designedly intro- j 

 duccd into that kingdom some years before the Norway rat, 363; I 

 that rat put a stop to their increase, and the frog is once more 

 almost extinct in that kingdom, 364 ; the mole utterly a stranger ' 

 there, 371. 



Iron extracted from all the substances upon earth, 221. 



hutia, an animal very common in all the northern countries bor- 

 derino 1 upon the icy sea, and seldom found in warm climates ; de- 

 scription ; burrows like the fox, and when with young, the female 

 retires to her kennel, in the same manner as the fox ; its kennel 

 vi:ry narrow, and extremely deep, has many outlets; manner of 

 coupling, time of gestation, and number of young, all similar to j 

 what is found in the fox ; brings forth at the end of May, or the 

 beginning of June ; considered as between the dog and the fox ; 

 changes its colour, and is at one time brown, at another white ; 

 some naturally blue, which never change colour; its fur is two 

 inches long; of no value except the animal is killed in winter; 

 time in which it is called the rra.tt-fox, 326, 327. 



isinglass, serviceable in medicine, and many arts ; very great 

 sums yearly expended upon this article of commerce ; manner of 

 making it ; principally furnished from Russia, where great quanti- 

 ties are prepared surprisingly cheap; Mr. Jackson found out a me- 

 thod of making a glue that answered the purposes of isinglass, 642. 



Islands, new, formed in two ways ; either suddenly by the action 

 of subterraneous fires, or more slowly by the deposition of mud, 

 carried down by rivers, and stopped by some accident ; thirteen 

 islands in the Mediterranean appearing at once emerging from the 

 water; one new formed in the year 1720 near that ot Tercera ; 

 formed at the mouths of many rivers, and how ; a beautiful and 

 large one formed at the mouth of the river Nanquin, in China, not 

 Jess than sixtv miles long, and about twenty broad, 36, 37; appear, 

 at first, infinitely greater than they naturally are ; seem to travel 

 to the shore, and represent a wood ; the scene then shifted, repre- 

 sents curious fiofures, ships with sails, streamers, and flags, antique 

 elevated castles, and at length vanish into nothing, 113. 



Ismarl (Shrqne in his time the Arabians first began the ma- 

 nagement of horses, 216. 



l.-'l/n/iaii, the prince's messengers go on foot 36 leagues in four- 

 teen hours, 150. 



Italy, the horses there have a particular aptitude to prance, 218. 



.'iKntan, a peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, formerly a part of 

 the sea, 81. 



Jit<la-goat common in Guinea, Angola, and all alunjr the coasts 

 of Africa, not much larger than a hare, 247. 



Jugular fish, name given to that fish which has the ventral fins 

 placed more forward than the pectoral, 047. 



Julian's Buy, (St.) an American harbour, forty-nine degrees 

 south of the line ; Ferdinand Magellan happened to winter in it, 



Jiniij/cr, its shade was fatal, if we credit the ancients, 96; the 

 Laplanders drink water in which these berries have been infused, 

 1 7' 1 . 



Irory, the tusks of the babyrouessa are a very fine ivory, 

 smoother and whiter than that of the elephant, hut not so hard and 

 serviceable. 286 ; that of the morse more esteemed than that of the 

 elephant, being whiter and harder, 390 ; almost all our ivory comes 

 from Africa, where the greatest part is found in the forests ; the 

 tusks of the Mammoth converted to purposes of ivory ; fossil 

 bones found in Peru and the Brazils, which when cut and polished, 

 appear in every respect similar to ivory, 425 ; teeth of the nar- 

 whale far surpass ivory in all its qualities, 622. 



Justinian, the emperor, till his time the sea was open to all na- 

 tions. 68. 



Irij-ln'rrief, showers of them raised by tempests in one country, 

 and falling in another, 114. 



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Kabassoii, or cataphractus, one of the largest kinds of the arma- 

 dillo, 382. 



Kamtschatka, description of its natives, 178. 



Kangaroo, an animal first discovered and described by Mr 

 Banks, 445. 



Ktrataphit.es, among the coraline fungi, 838. 



krriiu's, an insect of great use in medicine and dying ; its de- 

 scription ; the difference of the male from the female; the harvest 

 of the kcrmes greater or less in proportion to the severity ot tha 

 winter ; women gather them before siln-risino-, tearim' them off 

 with their nails, 822. >-.':!. 



Kcstr'd, a bird of the generous breed of hawks, 4S3. 



Kcvel, name of a second variety of gazelles, made by Mr. Buf- 

 fon,251 



Kilda, (St.) a rocky island ; its shores to the West six hundred 

 fathom perpendicular above the surface of the sea, 80 ; the inhabi- 

 tants consume annually near twenty-three thousand young gan- 

 nets, and a great quantity of their eggs, 582 ; its rocks more than 

 three quarters of a mile high. 584. 



Killer, a cetaceous animal of surprising strength, which attacks 

 the whale, 619. 



Kinds of animals not actually distinguished by horns, colour, 

 position of the ears, or fineness of hair, 247 ; difficult to fix precise 

 boundaries between the goat kind and the deer ; the gazelles form 

 a distinct kind, 250 ; all of the deer-kind have no gall-bladder, 

 257. 



Kinr., in Iceland, are without horns, 236. 



King, a question in schools, which man most happy, the beggar 

 by night, and king by day ; or the beagar by day, and kino- by 

 night? 157. 



King-fishrr, a remarkable bird ; its description ; one of the most 

 rapacious little animals that skims the dt-ep ; places it frequents, 

 and how it takes its prey ; the plumage a beautiful variety of bril- 

 liant colours ; instances of credulity with respect to this bird ; its 

 nest, or rather hole, very different from that described by the an- 

 cients ; instances of the credulity of mankind with respect to 

 this bird ; feeds upon fish in that hole ; foitid from the remains of 

 fi.sh ; the king-fisher is found with from five to nine eggs, which 

 the female continues to hatch ; though disturbed and robbed, she 

 returns and lays again ; Reaumur's account of this ; season for 

 excludino- the brood ; the male faithful beyond the turtle, brings 

 the female large provisions of fish, and keeps her plump and fat ; 

 he used to twitter before, now enters the nest quietly and private- 

 ly ; the young hatched in twenty days ; differ in their size and 

 beauty, 602, 603. 



King-fisher, the Halcyon. Cicero has written a long poem in 

 praise of this bird, of which but two lines remain ; the emperor 



