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description of this fish, 649 ; this fish appears in great quantities 

 every seven or eight years in the river Welland, near Spalding ; a 

 man employed by a farmer to take them, for manuring his grounds, 



got for a considerable time four shillings a-day, selling them at a 

 alfpenny a bushel, 656. 



SlMicon, his two daughters, buried with much finery, found 

 eleven hundred years after in good preservation, excepting the 

 pearls, 692. 



Stinkard, name given by our sailors to one or two animals of the 

 weasel kind, chiefly found in America, 288 ; and by the savages of 

 Canada to the musk-rat, 367. 



Stint, smaller and shorter billed water-bird of the crane kind, 568. 



fitoat, the ermine, its description, 330. 



Stomach, Nature has contracted the stomach of animals of the 

 forest, suitable to their precarious way of living, 153 ; proportioned 

 to the quality of the animal's food, or the ease of obtaining it ; those 

 who chew the cud have four stomachs ; yet several of those have 

 but two in Africa, 207; the camel has a fifth stomach, as a reservoir 

 of water for occasional use, 431 ; birds have properly but one 

 stomach, yet this is different in different kinds, 4. r >2. 



Stork, true difference between it and the crane ; are birds of 

 passage, returning into Europe in March ; the Dutch attentive to 

 the preservation of the stork in their republic, the bird protected 

 by laws and the prejudices of the people ; countries where found ; 

 ancient Egyptians' regard for this bird carried to adoration ; the 

 ancient ibis supposed the same which at present bears the same 

 name, 556, 557. 



Storms, foretold by the barometer ; above their region all is calm 

 and serene; rise to the tops of the highest mountains; confirmed by 

 those who have been on the Andes, and by the deep snows that 

 crown them; with powerful effects, do not show great speed, 

 103, 104; one most dreadful in Herefordshire, in 1697; description 

 of it, 110 ; do not terrify goats, 245. 



Stones, showers of stones raised by storms in one country, carried 

 to another, 114. 



Stone-chatter, slender-billed bird of the sparrow-kind, 537 ; 

 migrates, 538. 



Store, expeditious in bringing the animal in the egg to perfec- 

 tion, 126. 



Strabism, an inequality of sight, and particular cast of the eye ; 

 whence it proceeds, 162. 



Stream of rivers more rapid in proportion as its channel is 

 diminished, and why, 60. 



Strength, a just way of estimating human strength, by perse- 

 verance and agility of motions ; not hereditary ; prodigies of it ; 

 Maximin the emperor described ; instances of it in Milo, and also 

 in Athanatus ; estimation of strength in animals by the bulk of 

 their muscles very fallacious ; thin and raw-boned men being gene- 

 rally stronger and more powerful than those seemingly more mus- 

 cular ; women much inferior in strength to men ; of man less 

 valuable since the invention of gunpowder, of new machines, and 

 the application of the power of animals to the purposes of life ; the 

 comparative strength of a horse, measured, not by what he can 

 carry, but by what he can draw, 150 to 152 ; of the inhabitants 

 round the poles is amazing, 179. 



Stromateus, a soft-finned apodal fish, described, 640. 



Strut/iophaffi, nations so called from their fondness of the flesh 

 of the ostrich, 465. 



Stuffs, made of hair of animals about Angora, 247 ; half com- 

 posed of silk forbid to be worn at home, as a luxurious refine- 

 ment, 796. 



Stunts, name given to whales at the age of two years, 618. 



Sturgeon, a cartilaginous fish, of a considerable size, yet flies ter- 

 rified from the smallest fishes ; its description ; three kinds of it ; 

 the largest caught in Great Britain taken in the Eske, where fre- 

 quently found weighing four hundred and fifty pounds ; live in so- 

 ciety among themselves ; and Gesner has seen them shoal together 

 at the notes of a trumpet ; in the water it is one of the strongest 

 fishes, and often breaks the nets that enclose it ; but its head once 

 raised above water, its activity ceases ; two methods of preparing 

 it ; that from America not so good as from the north of Europe ; 

 caviar made with the roe of all kinds of sturgeon; manner of 

 making it, 640 to 642. 



Sucking-fish, the remora, sticks to the shark ; called the shark's 

 pilot, 631. 



Sucking-fish, the echineis, a soft-finned thoracic fish ; its de- 

 cription, 650. 



Suction, from whence that amazing power in the lamprey 

 irises, 638. 



Sugar, the white sort in the tropical climates sometimes full of 

 maggots, 92. 



NO. 79 & 80. 



Siit/>!iiir. with iron filings kneaded together into a paste, with wa- 

 ter, when heating, produce a flame, 23. 



Hun, mock suns and other meteors seen in the Alps, 42; in tho 

 polar regions, 110; reflected upon opposite! clouds, appear lika 

 three or lour real suns in the firmament ; real sun always readily 

 known by superior brightness ; the rainbow also different in thosa 

 countries, 112; not easy to conceive how it whitens wax and linen, 

 and darkens the human complexion. 184. 



*iiiii-j!stt, an anomalous cartilaginous fish, like a bulky head, 

 643. 



Surf of the am, name the mariners give waves, breaking against 

 the shore, 80. 



rat, the phalangcr, a small monkey, described, 415. 



Surinam tuail. iht: pip:il, a hideous toad ; its description, 707. 

 Surmal 

 creature, 



Surmalot. with Mr 



[)ip:il. a h 

 . Buft'ou, 



the great rat, a hateful rapacious 



Titittlrt. the mullus. a spinous fish ; its description, 648. 



Niralloifs. time of their migrations; departure of some, and re- 

 treat of others into old walls, from the inclemencies of winter, 

 wrap the migrations of birds in great obscurity, 458 ; experiment 

 of Mr. Buffon to this purpose, ib. ; with us birds of passage ; breed 

 in Upper Egypt and the land of Java, and never disappear, 538 ; 

 hiiuxi-fifalluu- ; characteristics of the swallow tribe ; at the end of 

 September they depart ; those migrating first seen in Africa, in 

 the beginning of October, having performed their journey in seven 

 days ; sometimes seen, interrupted by contrary winds, wavering in 

 their course at sea. and lighting upon the ships in their passage ; a 

 doubt whether all swallows thus migrate, or some others of thin 

 species externally alike, and internally different, be differently af- 

 fected by the approach of winter ; observations made to this pur- 

 pose by Reaumur, Frisch, and Klein ; Chinese pluck their nests 

 from rocks, and send great numbers into the East-Indies for sale ; 

 gluttons esteem them great delicacies, dissolved in chicken or mut- 

 ton broth ; the number of their eggs, 546 to 548. 



Swallow of Ternate, or God's bird, the bird of paradise, described, 

 523. 



Swammerdam lent attention to testaceous animals, almost ex- 

 ceeding credibility, 681. 



Su-an, a stately web-footed water-fowl ; doubt whether the tame 

 kind be in a state of nature ; none found in Europe ; the wild swan, 

 though strongly resembling it in colour and form, yet another bird ; 

 differences between wild and tame swans ; the tame most silent, 

 the wild has a loud and disagreeable note ; from thence called the 

 hooper ; accounts sufficient to suspend an opinion of its musical 

 abilities ; two months hatching, and a year growing to proper size ; 

 longest in the shell of any bird ; said to live three hundred years ; 

 by an act of Edward IV. the son of the king was allowed to keep a 

 swan, and no others, unless possessed of five marks a year ; pu- 

 nishment for taking their eggs, imprisonment for a year and a day, 

 and a fine at the king's will ; places which abound with them, 593 

 to 505. 



Swarms, (lee-kite) several swarms in the year, the first alwayi 

 the best, 806. 



Sweden, asses a sort of rarity in Sweden, 226. 



Sweetmeats, in tropical climates, exposed by day in the sun, to 

 prevent their putrefying by the night air, 92. 



Swift, a bird of the swallow lund ; peculiar position of the 

 toes, 546. 



Swiftness of sarages, many surprising stories about it, 150. 



Sword-fish, encounters the whale, 619 ; its description, 647, 648. 



Syagushes, carnivorous animals, like the jackal and wolf, hunt in 

 packs, 208. 



Symmetry and proportion of the human body. 140. 



Sympathetic affuction of yawning ; a ridiculous instance of it 

 practised upon professor M'Laurin, at Edinburgh, 144. 



Synuria, a lubricating liquor in the joints, so called by anato- 

 mists, 149. 



Syria, most of its cities destroyed in 1182 by an earthquake, 32. 



System, in what manner the harmony of our planetary system is 

 preserved, 2 ; very useful in natural history ; books containing 

 them, useful to be consulted, but unnecessary to be read ; that of 

 Linnaeus deserves the preference ; faults of systematic writers in 

 natural history, 199, 200 ; what has given birth to the variety of 

 systems in natural history, 202. See tjuuun, 047. 



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TMies, streaked cats, to which the civet's colour is com- 

 pared, 341. 



Tujucu. See Peccary, 282. 



