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INDEX. 



MAN 



unequal magnitude, anil why : at certain seasons they never meet 

 without an engagement; wonders this extraordinary creature 

 offers to the imagination ; are endowed with a vital principle that 

 furnishes out such limbs as have been cut away ; varieties of this 

 animal with diii'erences in the claws, little in the habits or con- 

 formation ; the shell black when taken, but turns red by boiling ; 

 common way of taking the lobster, 663 to b'6(i. 



Locust, the great brown locust seen in several parts of England 

 in 1748 ; in some southern kingdoms they are still formidable ; 

 description of this insect; in what manner they take the field; 

 their devastations ; are still more noxious when dead ; instance of 

 it ; account of their devastations in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and 

 Barbery ; transformations ; eaten by the natives in many kingdoms 

 of the East, and caught in small nets for that purpose ; their taste : 

 are considered as a great delicacy in Tonquin, by the rich and the 

 poor; must have been a common food with the Jews ; description 

 of the great West Indian Locust, the most formidable, 773 to 

 776. 



Loir, the great dormouse, so called hy Mr. Buffon. 3t>6. 



Longevity, persons remarkable for it, 2!)5. 



Lori, the longest of all animals in proportion to its size ; descrip- 

 tion ; a native of the island of Ceylon, 413. 



Loricaria, description of this fish, 650. 



Lories, a kind of parrot, 526. 



Louse, its description ; whether distinguished by the parts of 

 generation into males and females, not yet discovered ; the lousy 

 disease frequent among the ancients, many of whom died of this 

 disorder, 753, 754. 



Louse (wood,) the description ; of great use in medicine, 758. 



Lowenhoeck, his opinion about the rudiments of animals, 123. 



Luminous appearance of the waves in the night, the cause, 73. 



Lump-fish, its description ; flung into a pail of water, will stick 

 so close to the bottom, that on taking the fish by the tail, the 

 pail and several gallons of water may be lifted ; their flesh, 043, 

 644. 



Lungs, animals before birth make no use of their lungs, 393 ; no 

 anatomist has described the lungs of the lamprey, 63ci ; caterpil- 

 lars have eighteen lungs, and live several days in the exhausted 

 receiver of the air-pump, 786. 



Lybia, its inhabitants use ostriches as horses ; also at Joar ; in- 

 stance of it at the factory of Podore, 465. 



l.ijlinijii. of Surinam, a kind of serpent, thirty-six feet long, 727. 



Lynx, distinguished from the ounce, and described ; first striking 

 distinction between it and those of the panther-kind is the tail ; 

 each hair of this animal is of three different colours ; it is not 

 above the size of the ounce ; chiefly met with in the cold coun- 

 tries bordering on the pole, in the north of Germany, Lithuania, 

 Muscovy, Siberia, and North America ; those of the New Con- 

 tinent are smaller than in Europe ; this animal has been called the 

 lupus cervarius ; but for what reason hard to guess ; in its nature 

 it cx-ictly resembles the cat, is bigger, and near two feet long, is 

 also bolder and fiercer ; more delicate than the cat ; resembles the 

 wolf in nothing except its cry ; several reports of the lynx, pro- 

 pagated by ignorance or imposture, 304 to 306. 



Lyster, strangeness of his theory to explain the invariable mo- 

 tion of winds, 100. 



Lytlwphytes and coraline substances, 837. 



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Macaguo, a kind of monkey described by Mr. Buffon, 411. 



Mftccair, the large kind of parrot, the size of a raven, 526. 



Maiichhiel-tree, in America, its shade fatal, 95 ; no plant will 

 grow under it, 128. 



Machines, the invention of many has rendered human strength 

 less valuable, 152. 



Mnrkarel produces five hundred thousand eggs in one season, 

 (i!2 ; described, 648 ; its growth, 657. 



Madagascar, its natives desire nothing so ardently as to prosti- 

 tute their wives or daughters to strangers, and for the most trifling 

 advantages, 139 ; the great bat of that island described, 385. 



Madder. See Biiioa, 173. 



. Madness, produced by want of sleep, 156 ; cured by music, 

 and also caused by it. See Henry IV. 166. 



Maelstroom, Dutch name for a whirlpool; one upon the coast of 

 Norway, considered as most dreadful and destructive ; the body 

 of water forming this whirlpool, extended in a circle of above 

 thirteen miles, 7^. 



Ma/gtHaa (Ferdinand,) a Portuguese of noble extraction, first 

 discovered the gigantic race of mankind, towards the extremity 



of South America ; account of this discovery ; he waa slain upon 

 one of the Molucca islands, 191. 



Magni. an llalian traveller, discovered the remarkable grotto of 

 Antiparos, in the Archipelago, 20. 



Ma-got of Buffon, the Cynocephalus, the last of the ape kind, 

 described, 404. 



Magpie, thievish; rings found in the nest of a tame magpie, 

 512 ; habits and food ; when satisfied for the present it lays up 

 the remainder for another time ; places where it builds, and nest 

 described ; number of eggs in its domestic state ; preserves its 

 natural character strictly ; foolish custom of cutting its tongue to 

 teach it to speak ; puts the animal to pain, and balks the inten- 

 tion, 516, .">! 7. 



Mahumi/un.t, considering the hare as an unclean animal, reli- 

 giously abstain from its flesh, 348. 



Mni.mnn, the last of the baboons, Edwards calls it the pigtail ; 

 its description ; native of Sumatra ; does not well endure the 

 rigours of our climate, 406. 



Ma ire (James Le,) a traveller who confirms the existence of 

 giants in America, 191. 



Maki., the last of the monkey kind, 398 ; their description ; many 

 diU'i-rrnt kinds of these animals, 411, 412. 



Malabar, land and sea breezes upon those coasts, 103. 



Malacopterigii, the barbarous Greek name given to the soft- 

 finned fish ; the prickly-finned sort termed .4cantlwptcrigii, 647. 



Malnhnllo, a very considerable volcano in South America, 29. 



Malbianclic, grounds his beautiful theory of monstrous produc- 

 tions upon a famous instance related by him, and some theory 

 from which he deduces the effects of imagination upon the foetus, 

 187. 



Mulbrouk, a monkey of the ancient continent ; its description ; 

 the Bramins have hospitals for such as are sick or disabled, 638. 



Ma-tu.it ia Islands have land in them at one time covered with 

 water, and at another free, 82. 



Milliard, a kind of duck, 598 ; with very particular faculties for 

 calling, 600. 



Malpighi, his famous experiment upon the stigmata of cater- 

 pillars, 786. 



Mammoth, its tusks, which are used as ivory, and supposed to 

 belong to the elephant, often weigh four hundred pounds, 425. 



Man endures a greater variety of climates than the lower orders 

 are able to do, and why. 93 ; on comparing the minute differences 

 of mankind, it will be found that there is scarce one nation upon 

 earth that entirely resembles another ; differences in his species less 

 than in animals, and rather taken from the tincture of the skin than 

 variety of figure ;. there are not in the world above six distinct 

 varieties in the race of men ; first race in the polar regions, deep 

 brown, short, oddly shaped, savage ; second, the Tartar race, 

 olive-coloured, middle-sized, ugly, robust ; third, the southern 

 Asiatics, dark olive, slender shaped, straight black hair, feeble ; 

 fourth, the Negroes of Africa, black, smooth skin, woolly hair, 

 well shaped ; fifth, the Americans, copper colour, straight black 

 hair, small eyes, slight lii.ibed, not strong ; sixth, the Europeans 

 and bordering nations, white and of different tints, fine hair, large 

 limbed, vigorous, 177 to 183 ; may be called the animal of every 

 climate, 121; intended naturally to be white, 184; white men 

 resemble our common parent more than the rest of his children ; 

 a native of the tropical climates, and only a sojourner more to the 

 north, according to Linnaeus; argument sufficient to prove the 

 contrary, 185 ; marriageable in the warm countries of India at 

 twelve and thirteen years of age, 189; just come into the world 

 gives a picture of complete imbecility, 133; a vain man ventures 

 to excite an auditor's attention at the risk of incurring his dislike, 

 146 ; as man has a superiority of powers over other animals, so is 

 he proportionably inferior to them in his necessities ;' nature has 

 made him subject to more wants and infirmities than other crea- 

 tures, but all these wants seem given to multiply the number of 

 his enjoyments ; and in what manner, 153 ; first sensations of a 

 man newly brought into existence, and the steps by which he 

 arrives at reality, pointed out by Mr. Buffon, 171 ; the only 

 animal that supports himself perfectly erect ; the buttock in man 

 different from all other animals ; man's feet also different from 

 those of other animals, the apes not excepted ; the nails less 

 in man than in any animal, 148 ; said to be tall when from five 

 feet eight inches to six feet high, 149 ; probability that men have 

 been, in all ages, much of the same size they are at present, J92 ; 

 proportionably stronger for his size than any other animal ; to 

 compare the strength of the lion with that of man, it must be 

 considered the claws of the animal give a false idea of its power, 

 and ascribe to its force the effects of its arms ; another manner of 

 comparing the strength of man with that of animals, is by the 



