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their gambols upon those branches on which the snakes were re- 

 posing, and jumping over them without receiving any injury; they 

 provoke the snake us the sparrov. s twitter at a cat ; when attacked, 

 they show perfect skill in defending ami assisting each other, 40(i, 

 407 ; they regularly begin hostilities against those who enter their 

 woods ; one being wounded, the rest come round, put their fingers 

 into the wound, as desirous of sounding its depth ; the blood flow- 

 ing in any quantity, some stop it, while others get leaves, chew, 

 and thrust them into the opening ; are often killed in numbers be- 

 fore they make a retreat ; in this retreat the young are clinging to 

 the b.ick of the female, who jumps away, seemingly unembarrassed 

 bv thu burden ; usual way of taking them alive ; skinned and served 

 up at negro feasts, so like a child, an European is shocked at the 

 sight ; the negroes seeing Europeans buy young and tame monkeys, 

 with equal cure brought rats to the factors for sale, ami were greatly 

 disappointed at finding no purchaser; they carry oft' what they are 

 able, and destroy ten times more ; manner of their plundering ; are 

 under a kind of discipline, exercised among themselves ; accounts 

 to tins purpose by Margrave ; one species, by Mr. Button, called 

 the ouarine, remarkable for loudness and distinctness of voice; 

 use to which they convert it ; are generally together in companies, 

 march in exact order, and obey the voice of some chieftain, re- 

 markable for his size and gravity ; chief food of the tribe ; extra- 

 ordinary manner of managing an oyster ; manner of drawing crabs 

 from the water ; no snare, however nicely baited, takes a monkey 

 of the West Indian islands ; females bring forth one, and some- 

 times two at a tiiiie ; rarely breed when brought into Europe ; the 

 male and female never tire of fondling their young, and instructing 

 it with no little assiduity ; often severely correct it, if stubborn, or 

 disinclined to profit by their example, 408, 409 ; manner of carry- 

 ing their young in the woods ; dexterity in passing from one tree 

 to another, by forming a kind of chain, locking tail to tail, or 

 hand in hand ; one amused itself for hours imposing upon the gra- 

 vity of a cat, and playing its pranks among rabbits; faithful ser- 

 vices which Father Carli received from the monkeys in Angola, 

 where he went to convert the savage natives to Christianity ; 

 savages of Africa and America suppose monkeys to be men, idle, 

 slothful, rational beingjs, capable of speech and conversation, but 

 obstinately dumb, for tear of being compelled to labour ; monkeys 

 of Africa most expert and entertaining ; show a greater degree of 

 cunning and activity ; three marks by which monkeys of the new 

 continent are distinguished from those of the old ; Mr. Buffon 

 makes but nine species of monkeys belong to the ancient continent, 

 and eleven to the new; their names, with their descriptions; the 

 red Jifr'rcan, the jidtus, second sort of the ancient continent ; the 

 trlriti ntjse, or moustoc, of the ancient continent, most beautiful ; 

 its description ; the (rreen of St. Jago, also called caittitrif, is of 

 the ancient continent ; its description ; some of the kinds eat 

 their own tail, and seem to feel no pain ; the Bramins have hospi- 

 tals for those that happen to be sick or disabled ; those monkeys of 

 the new continent, with muscular holding tails, are called sapajous, 

 and those with feeble useless tails, are called sagoins; the fox-tail- 

 ed monkev ; tnakits, the lastof the kind; their description, 410 to 413. 



Munkey-bczoar, a factitious concrete, 252. Sec Brzoar. 



Atonot'ulits, the arborescent water-flea; its description; are of a 

 blood-red colour ; and sometimes in such multitudes on standing 

 waters, as to make them appear all over red, whence the water has 

 been thought turned into blood, 768. 



MenffO^HS, so called from a famous Pilot of that name, who first 

 used them in navigation with success ; in that part of the ocean 

 between Africa and India those of the east winds begin in 

 January, and end at the commencement of June ; in August, or 

 September, the contrary takes place ; and the west winds blow 

 for three or four months ; these winds are always subject to their 

 grpufiist variations as they approach the land, so that on one side 

 of the great peninsula of India the coasts are for near half the 

 year harassed by violent hurricanes, while on the opposite side 

 theso dreadful tempests are wholly unknown, 102; monsoons pre- 

 vail at different seasons throughout the Indies, ib. 



Mnx!*ri<. after a e-ii.'l,<;rue of them. Liana-Mis particularly adds 

 the lender wtists of the women of Europe. Hri. 



.to^/w.' romt jtrodtictidns. Father Mnlbrauche's ingenious theory 

 of; remarkable instance rei:<,teci b\ r him, Irt7. 



Mnusc-dtir, nii:, i in America for the elk. 270; its description, 

 271. 



Miirmijrus, description of this fish, <>.">!. 



.Wjro'T'o, the original horses there, much smaller than the Ara- 

 bian breed, 2l!!. 



M 'rvi. a kind of salamander, thought venomous. 717. 



.U- 3f. an animal of ;:ie seal-kind, mi^ht be n-nked among the 

 fishes, 216 ; generally frequents the same place where seals reside 



in; different fi-im 'ho rest in a very particular formation of the 

 teeth; rescmhlt ., ,* se;il. < \eej>t that it is much larger ; are rarely 

 found but in the frozen regie MIS near the pole ; the Greenlanders, 

 who formerly had great plenty, and who made them their principal 

 food, now find them very scarce, and are obliged to toil more 

 assiduously for a subsistence ; its teeth generally trom two to three 

 feet long ; the ivory more esteemed than that of the elephant ; the 

 fishers have formerly killed three or four hundred morses at once ; 

 their bones are still lying in prodigious quantities along those 

 shores they chiefly frequented, 395, H:M>. 



Moschelots, excessive torments caused by them, 43. 



Muss, the only support of the rein-deer in Lapland ; of two sorts, 



Mother-of-pearl, taken from the pearl oyster, G91. 

 Moths, difference from butterflies, 7!)3. 



Mutiuit keeps the water of the sea sweet, 73; destroys numbers 

 of viler creatures, ib.; constant motion of the waters of the sea 



worm kind move, tsKI. 



MouJ/lon, the, sheep in a savage state, a bold fleet creature, able 

 to escape from greater animals, or oppose the smaller ; its descrip- 

 tion, 242. 



Mountains, rising from places once level, 10 ; give direction to 

 the course of the air, 195 ; how formed and for what designed ; 

 upon our globe considered as angles of small lines in the circum- 

 ference of a circle, 40, 41; countries most mountainous, are most 

 barren and uninhabitable, 43 ; some valleys are fertilized by earth 

 washed down from great heights, 47; the more extensive the 

 mountain, the greater the river, 42; tops of the highest mountains 

 bare and pointed, and why. 45 ; tops of land-mountains appear 

 barren and rocky, of sea-mountains verdant and fruitful, 85 ; the 

 highest in Africa, those called of the moon, giving source to the 

 Niger and Nile in Africa ; the greatest and highest under the line ; 

 some rise three miles perpendicular above the bottom of the 

 ocean, 42, 43 ; highest in Asia ; Mount Caucasus makes near 

 approaches to the Andes in South America, 45 ; burning moun- 

 tains in Europe, 26 ; in Asia ; in the Molucca Islands ; in Africa ; 

 in America ; those of the Andes ; those of Arequipa, Carasso, 

 Malahallo, and Cotopaxi, 29 ; description of the latter by Ulloa, 

 and an eruption of it, ib. 



Mouse, the most feeble and most timid of all quadrupeds, except 

 the Guinea-pig ; never leaves its hole but to seek provision ; never 

 rendered quite familiar ; though fed in a cage retains its apprehen- 

 sions ; no animal has more enemies, and few so incapable of resist- 

 ance ; the owl, cat, snake, hawk, weasel, and rat, destroy them 

 by millions ; brings forth at all seasons ; and several times in the 

 year ; its usual number from six to ten ; these in a fortnight strong 

 enough to shift for themselves ; places where chiefly found ; Aris- 

 totle, having put a mouse with young into a vessel of corn, some 

 time after found a hundred and twenty sprung from that original ; 

 its life lasts two or three years ; the species found in all parts of 

 the ancient continent, and has been exported to the new ; although 

 enemies to man, are never found but near those places where he 

 has fixed his habitation ; Gesner minutely describes the variety 

 of mouse-traps ; long-tailed field-mouse ; short-tailed field-mouse ; 

 has a store against winter, a bushel at a time ; a description of the 

 shrew-mouse, 3b'5. 366. 



Moustoc, or White-nose, monkey of the ancient continent, de- 

 scription, 411. 



Mouth of hares lined with hair ; the only animals that have it on 

 the inside, 347 ; the snails of the trochus kind have none, 685. 



Mucous /ii/uiir. giving the joints an easy and ready play, 149. 



Mu^ii, the mullet, description of this fish, 649. 



Mule, reputed barren, though Aristotle says it is sometimes 

 prolific, 223 ; engendered between a horse and a she-uss, or a jack- 

 ass and a mare ; inhabitants of mountainous countries cannot do 

 without them ; how they go down the precipices of the Alps 

 and Andes ; a fine mule in Spain worth fifty or sixty guineas ; 

 common mule very healthy ; lives thirty years and more, 226; in 

 S.iutli America destroyed by a bat c;iiled vampyre, 3b6. 



JMuluf or sur mulct, a description of this fish, -421. 



.Wii/tictiive shells, third division of shells by Aristotle, fi79 ; two 

 principal kinds of multivuive sludl-fish, moving and stationary, 693. 



Mummy, formerly a considerable article in medicine; ParsRus 

 wrote a teatise on the ineflicacy of mummy in physic ; counter- 

 feited by the Jews, and how ; the method of seeking for mum- 

 mies ; found in the sands of Arabia, in Egypt, in wooden coffins, 

 or in cloths covered with bitumen, 196 ; remarkable munmiv dug 

 up at Auvergne, in France, 197; an injection of petreuleum in- 



