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Rein-deer. See T)rrr, 272. 



Rcmora, the .iicking-Jisli, it sticks to the shark, and drains 

 away its ino'iMiiri 1 . li.>l. 



Reproduction. Si v r TVerafrfcy, 831. 



r;> [it- i * ^:'ow to a prodigious size in the internal parts of South 

 America and Africa, and why ; infinite numbers of them not seen 

 in this part of the world, and why, 120, 121. 



Kitieinhiiinne to the common parent of all; the olive-coloured 



Astatic, and the jet black Negro, claim tho honour of hereditary 



iv.-v.nbl.nire to him; argument sufficient to prove the contrary, 



ld."> ; uiilieult to give a reason why the child should resemble the 



or the muthcr, 187. 



R< spirillum itt Jisin'x, general method of explaining it, 609. 



Rliinr, a great river proceeds from the Alps, 42 ; part of it lost 

 in the sands, not far from Leyden ; the greatest part arrives at the 

 ocean, ijii. 



Kh'noce.ros, a ruminating animal, 232 ; not afraid singly to oppose 

 the lion, 2fi5 ; next to the elephant the most powerful of animals ; 

 general outline of it ; the elepiunt defeated by it; its horn some- 

 times found from three feet to throe feet and a half long ; this 

 horn composed of the most solid substance, and pointed so as to 

 inflict the most fatal wounds ; a rhinoceros sent from Bengal to 

 London, not above two years old, cost near 1000 for his convey- 

 ance and tbod ; in some parts of Asia, those animals are tamed, 

 and led into the field to strike terror into the enemy, but are as 

 dangerous to their employers ; method of taking them ; some found 

 in Africa with a double horn, one above the other ; many medicinal 

 virtues ascribed to this horn, when taken in powder, without any 

 foundation, 42;~>, 426. 



/.';>< r.s, all our greatest find their source among mountains, 42; 

 their production according to De la Hire, 57 ; other hypotheses 

 upon the same subject, 58 ; make their own beds, and level the 

 bottom of their channels ; their sinuosities and turnings more 

 numerous as they proceed ; a certain sign with the savages of 

 Nortli America, they are near the sea, when they find the rivers 

 winding and often changing their direction ; a little river received 

 into a large, without augmenting either width or depth, and why ; 

 instance of it ; a river tending to enter another either perpendicu- 

 larly or in an opposite direction, will be diverted by degrees from 

 that direction, and obliged to make itself a more favaurable en- 

 trance with the stream of the former ; whatever direction the 

 ridge of the mountain has, the river takes the opposite course, 59, 

 60 ; every great river, whose source lies within the tropics, lias its 

 stated inundations, 64 ; those of countries least inhabited are very 

 rocky and broken into cataracts, and why, 65 ; at the poles neces- 

 sarily small, and why ; the rivers of Kurope more navigable and 

 more manageable than those of Africa and of the torrid zone ; all 

 rivers in the world tlowing into the sea with a continuance of their 

 resent stores, would take up, at a rude computation, 800 years to 

 ill it to its present height, 67. 



Halt in Rtd-brcast, a blender-billed bird of the sparrow kind, 

 living upon insects, 5157. 



Ruck, great bird described by Arabian writers, and exaggerated 

 by fable, but a species of the Condor, 478. 



KuetfS. See St. Kiltln. .V<4. 



Rurbuck. See Drr.r, 267. 



R.iii-rr tlf Kf.legme, the fivst who attempted to mend our breed 

 of horses, 222. 



ii"ijtr of Sicily. See Silk Mtiniifttctitrcs, 796. 



Roller, a beautiful bird of the pie kind ; its description, 517. 



H<n:stin* cat down all the woods and forests in Britain, and why, 

 84 ; the vanity of their boasts best shown by the parrot kind ; in 

 a hundred species now known, not one of those birds naturally 

 breeds in any of the countries that acknowledged the Roman 

 po'.ver. 5:3: > ; a Roman emperor had fifteen hundred flamingos' 

 tniiTues served up in a single dish at a feast, 566 ; a Roman sena- 

 tor irj'.-d to throw into his ponds such of his slaves as orferided him, 

 to feed tile lampreys, 639. 



liiii:ilin<il. a holy temperate man, said to hnve lived 120 years, 155. 



/i'./rv>. of the pie kind ; not carnivorous : their plan of policy ; 

 tUiir chiiii' food. 514, 515. 



I\otf:'ftlc, the sjreat bat of Madagascar. See Bat, 3c5. 



I-tuuxiuii-ffHio, a bird of passage, described, 514, 



y.Vv//i. the lurid loud. See fond, 706. 



/,' if. Kiiall bird of the crane kind ; manner of taking it, 57). 



K'nnitatttt quadrupeds, birds, fishes, insects ; men known to 

 ruminate ; instance in a young man at Bristol ; those of the cow 

 kind hold the first rank, 2:12 ; all of this class internally much 

 alike ; have not the upper ioreteeth, 2415 ; the stag performs this 

 with more difficulty than the cow or sheep, 200. See diurnal, 

 231, 232. 



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Runner, the corrira, bird of the crane kind, ita description, 567. 



Hunts, a variety of tame pigeons produced by cross coupling, 

 532. 



Hu.ii. copper and iron quickly covered with it ; gold contracts no 

 rust, 92. 



Rut, time when the stag feels the desire of copulating, 259. 



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Sal/Ie, its description from Mr. Jonelin, the first accurate obser- 

 ver of this animal ; sables leap with case from tree to tree, and ara 

 afraid of the sun ; different colours of their fur ; hunting the sable 

 chiefly the lot of soldiers and condemned criminals; how directed 

 to shoot them, 336. 



Sabre, the trachepterus, description of this spinous fish, 649. 



Sucre, bird of the generous breed of hawks, 4-H. 



Stigo tree, ate by the elephant to the stump, 418. 



Sui, the bowailcr. a monkey of the new continent, 412. 



So/7, a stag hard hunted, taking to the water, is said to go sail, 262. 



Snini's, name of the nets used in the pilchard fishery, on the 

 coast of Cornwall, 655. 



Sujuu, third soil of the sapajou, a monkey of the new continent, 

 412. 



Sold, the cagui, the largest monkey of the sagoin kind ; its de- 

 scription, 413. 



Sal jimmoiiiac made of the urine of camels, 432. 



Salamander, there is no such animal existing as that described 

 by the ancients ; the modern salamander a lizard ; there are many 

 kinds ; its conformation and habits ; reports concerning their 

 venom ; idle notion of its being inconsumable in fire, 717, 718. 



Salira, in the lama, or American camel, supplied by nature in 

 such abundance, that it spits on all occasions, and seems the only 

 offensive weapon of this harmless creature, 434. 



Salmon, a ruminating fish, 232 ; a soft finned abdominal fish, G50. 



Salt-water. See Sea and Sea-water. 



Salt, Bay salt, brought from the Bay of Biscay, a strong kind 

 made by evaporation in the sun, 71 ; volatile caustic salt obtained 

 in great quantities from the cantharides fly, 822. 



Samari, the aurora, the smallest and most beautiful monkey of 

 the sapajou kind, 412. 



Saw/aid Tartars, description of that people, 177. 



Sanctorian statical experiments upon a weak foundation, 149. 



Sand, rolling in waves like a troubled sea, and overwhelming 

 all with inevitable destruction, 4 ; tract of a country, lying along 

 the sea-side in Lower Brittany, inhabited before the year 1666, 

 now lies desert, being covered with sand to the height of twenty 

 feet, 100. 



Sanderling, small bird of the crane kind, 568. 



Sandpiper, small bird of the crane kind, 568. 



Santurin, an earthquake there in 1707; a volcano near it, 37. 



Sa/iajiiH, name given to the monkies of the new continent, 411. 



Savages more difficult in point of dress than the most fashion- 

 able or tawdry European ; instance of it, 145 ; perform a journey 

 of twelve hundred leagues in less than six weeks, 150 ; oblige 

 their women to a life of continual labour ; is surprised tin European 

 walks forward for his amusement and returns back again, 152. 



Saucr., made with the blood and marrow of the rein-deer by the 

 Laplanders, 277. 



Scallop, in its shell moves forward upon land, and swims upon 

 the surface of the water, by contrivance in a singular manner, 690. 



Scar, a child distinctly marked similar to one the father received 

 in battle, 1H5. 



Scarus, if we believe Ovid, is, like the salmon, a ruminating 

 238. 



Samp durlt, a variety of the duck-kind, 598. 



Sn nt, tin! iNugroes of Guinea have an insupportable scent, 183. 



ScliaUt.H!! assures us, he saw an instance of fishes being allured 

 by music, 166. 



Sciiena. a spinous fish ; description of this fish, 648. 



Sru/upeudru, the centipedes, a hideous angry worm, described, 

 762. 



SfinnJitr, the mackarel, a prickly-finned thoracic fish; its do" 

 scription, 648. 



i Scnrpiena, or father-lasher, of the prickly-finned thoracic kind. 

 648. 



Scorpion, four principal parts distinguishable in this animal ; the 

 reservoir where its poison is kept ; effect of its sting upon a dog, 

 in an experiment made by M Maupertius ; experiments made 

 upon other dogs ; instances of its irascible nature and malignity; 

 when driven to extremity, destroys itself; instance of it ; captivity 



