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Tails of sheep a foot broad, and weighing from twenty to thirty 

 pounds, sometimes supported by a board upon wheels, 244. 



Talapoin, eighth division of monkeys of the ancient continent, 

 411. 



Talons, in what manner produced in animals, 147. 



Tamain, a monkey of the second sort of the sagoin kind ; descrip- 

 tion, 412. 



Tamandua, an ant-bear, larger and smaller, lives upon ants, 441. 



Tamis-bird, one of the names of the Guinea-hen, described, 503. 



Tanais, a principal river in Europe, parting it from Asia, 61. 



Tanrec, of the hedge-hog kind, different enough to constitute 

 another species ; covered with prickles, though mixed with hair ; 

 only found in the East Indies ; Indians consider its flesh a deli- 

 cacy, 375. 



Tapeti, the Brasilia!! rabbit. See Rabbit, 349. 



'In/iir, the largest animal of America, not comparable to the ele- 

 phant of Africa in size, 211 , considered as the hippopotamus of the 

 new continent ; its description, 439. 



Tar used by the Laplanders for all disorders of the rein-deer, 

 277. 



Tarantula, the bite of this animal, and its cure by music, all a 

 deception ; instance of it, 16b' ; native of Apulia in Italy ; descrip- 

 tion, 751. 



Tarcel, name falconers give the male bird of prey; and why, 

 472. 



Tariguag-ua, ruggedness of road from it up to the Andes, 43. 



Tarnassar, great bird in the East Indies, no other than the con- 

 dor, 478. 



Tarsier, a monkey, last of the class of the oppossum kinds, 415. 



Tartars, their religion consists in part by managing their whis- 

 kers ; they waged a bloody war with the Persians as intidels, for 

 not giving the whiskers the orthodox cut, 145, 146; Samoeid, first 

 distinct race of men round the pole, described, 178; the Ostiac, a 

 face travelled down from the north, and originally sprung from mi- 

 nute savages, 1 79. 



Tartary comprehends great part of Asia ; natives and manners, 

 179, 180. 



Taste, in all substances, on mountain tops, and valley bottoms. 

 98 ; to determine somewhat upon the nature of tastes, bodies to be 

 tasted must be moistened, or dissolved by saliva, to produce a sen- 

 sation ; the tongue and body to be tasted, being dry, no taste en- 

 sues ; relish of tastes stronger in children than in persons advanced 

 in life, 170. 



Tatou, or armadillo, a quadruped ; covered with shells, 380. 



Tatu-apara, first of the kinds of the armadillo ; the second, the 

 tatou of Ray, or the encoubert of Buffon ; the third, the tatuette ; 

 their diversities described, 382. 



Teal, smallest bird of the duck-kind distinguished, 598. 



Teats, great variety of them in animals; their form, and how 

 placed, 147. 



Teeth- in cows, eight cutting teeth in their lower jaw, 234. 



Teeth, coloured, the passion for them in China and Japan ; in 

 some parts of India black teeth desired with ardour, 140 ; teeth of 

 animals various ; how formed in man, 147 ; of the elephant, shed 

 like horns of deer, or obtained, after death, not yet known ; natives 

 of Africa find them in their forests ; of the narwhale surpass ivory ; 

 ascribed to a different animal ; curiosity, and the desire of scarce 

 things, made them very valuable a century ago, 622 ; the white 

 uliark is said to have one hundred and forty-four teeth, 629. 



Tegg, what the hunters call the doe the second year, 266. 



TejafuaKU, tockey, and cordyle, all of the lizard kind, gradually 

 less, fill up the chasm between the crocodile and the African iguana, 

 720. 



Tempests, loudest formed by united contributions of minerals, 

 vegetables, and animals, increasing the streams of air fleeting round 

 the globe, 99 ; frequent under the tropics, and a space beyond them, 

 104; in Arabia and Africa described, 106. 



Tencriffe (the peak of) a mile and a half perpendicular from the 

 sea, 45. 



Ttndrac, an animal less than a mole, different from the hedge- 

 hog, and a different species ; description ; grunt like hogs, and love 

 lo be near water. 374. 



Ternate, a Molucca island, its swallow taken for the bird of para- 

 dise, 523. 



Terrier, first division of dogs of the generous kind, used for 

 hunting, 312. 



Testaceous substances on the tops of mountains, and in the heart 

 f marble, 6. 



Thales. the philosopher, held all things made of water, 49. 



Thames water, and that of the Indus, most light and wholesome, 50. 



Thtoritt of the earth, those of the must celebrated authors, 7. 



Theory of evaporation, for the formation of clouds, 107, 108; 

 other theories upon that subject; theory of sympathy, of Father 

 Malbranche, beautiful upon monstrous productions, 187. 



Tkerasia, an island, appeared unexpectedly to mariners, 37. 



Thermomeier measures heat and cold by a fixed standard; de- 

 scription, 52. 



Theutys, a prickly-finned abdominal fish, description of it, 649. 



Thibet, the musk from thence reckoned the best ; sells at 14s. the 

 ounce, 266 ; the peacock there the most beautiful of the feathered 

 creation, 498. 



Thoracic fsh, that which has the ventral fins directly under the 

 pectoral fins, 647. 



Throat of the great Greenland whale is so narrow, that any ani- 

 mal larger than a herring could not enter, 618 ; but that of the 

 cachalot can with great ease swallow an ox, 623 ; that of the shark 

 most amazing, 629 



Thrush, & slender-billed bird of the sparrow kind, 537 ; its distinc- 

 tion from all of the kind ; its song very fine ; the largest of the 

 kind with a musical voice ; its food, 539. 



Thumb-footed shell-fish, testaceous, described, 694. 



Thunder, (j'lloa heard it rolling beneath him, when upon the 

 Andes, 44 ; its cloud always moves against the wind, 103 ; a sound 

 produced by the opposition of two clouds, and continued by rever- 

 berated echo ; thunder clears the air and kills insects noxious te 

 vegetation. 109. 



Thyroid cartilage forms a lump upon the wind-pipe in men, not 

 seen in women. 147. 



Ttdes, with Pliny, were influenced partly by the sun, and in a 

 greater degree by the moon ; Kepler first conjectured attraction the 

 principal cause of them ; the precise manner discovered by Newton ; 

 high tides happen at the same time, on opposite sides of the globe, 

 where waters are fa.rthest from the moon ; solar and lunar tides ; 

 greatest in siziges, least in quadratures; flows strongest in narrow- 

 est places ; Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Sea, no sensible 

 tides, the gulf of Venice excepted. and why ; higher in the torrid 

 zone, than in the rest of the ocean ; greatest in the river Indus, 

 rising thirty feet ; remarkably high on the coasts of Malay, in the 

 straits of Sunda, the Red Sea, the gulf of St. Lawrence, along the 

 coast of China and Japan, at Panama, and in the gulf of Bengal ; 

 those at Tonquin most remarkable in the world ; one tide and one 

 ebb, in twenty-four hours ; twice in each month no tide at all ; in 

 the straits of Magellan it rises twenty feet, flows six hours, and the 

 ebb lasts but two hours, 73 to 76. 



Tiger leaps twenty feet at a spring, 208 ; defeated by a stag, 260; 

 taught to defend herds, 288 ; attacks the lion, 295 ; often bigger 

 than the lion ; nothing tames it ; perfectly resembles the cat ; three 

 sorts in Sunda Rajah's dominions ; the royal tiger carries a buffalo 

 over its shoulder to its den ; said to follow the rhinoceros for its 

 excrements ; other tales about it ; under Augustus, a tiger an ex- 

 traordinary sight: the species scarce ; opinion of Varro, that it was 

 never taken alive ; the ancients commended it for beauty among 

 quadrupeds, equal to that of the peacock among birds ; supposed to 

 bring forth four or five young at a time ; expresses his resentment 

 at the lion ; the skin esteemed in the east, particularly in China ; 

 battle of one tiger and three elephants at Siam described ; another 

 between a crocodile ; the red tiger, Mr. Buffon's cougar ; common 

 in Guinea, Brasil, Paraguay, and other parts of South America ; 

 the flesh superior to mutton, 297 to 302 ; and esteemed by the ne- 

 groes as a dainty, 315. 



Tiger-cat, or cat-a-mountain, a beautiful animal of its kind, 304. 



Tigris, a great river in Asia, lost under mount Taurus, 66. 



Tingitanians, and Egyptians, famous for fine horses, 218. 



Tf.pula (water} of the second order of insects ; description of it, 779. 



Tipu'.a, long-legged gnat, description of this insect, 825. 



Titmouse, a slender-billed bird of the sparrow kind, 537. 



Toad, some bigger than ducks, 120 ; their flesh is a delicacy oft 

 the coast of Guinea, 315 ; differences between the frog and it, as to 

 figure and conformation, 6!)7 ; their nature, appetites, and food ; 

 coupling ; difficulty in bringing forth; curious particulars relating 

 to this animal ; one swallowing a bee alive, the stomach stung, and 

 the insect vomited up again ; toads not venomous ; accounts of 

 toads taken inwardly ; difficult to be killed ; lives for centuries in a 

 rock, or within an oak, without access, nourishment, or air, and 

 yet found alive and perfect ; accounts of this ; toads suck cancer- 

 ous breasts, and perform a cure ; progress of this operation ; the ru- 

 beth, the land toad, alone has the property of sucking ; doubtful 

 whether they die by internal or external application of the can- 

 cerous matter ; description of the Surinam toad, called pipal, 702 

 to 707. 



Toeuco, sort of cry, given as a name in Canada to the flamingo, 

 566. 



