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women longer in growing old lhan men, 205 ; in the polar regions 

 as <i". H-.ned as the men, 178; women of India described; marry 

 and consummate at eight, nine, or ten years old, and have children 

 at thai age ; cease bearing before the age of thirty ; those of savage 

 nations in a great measure exempt from painful labours, 181 ; after 

 a catalogue jf deformities, Linnfeus puts down the slender waists of 

 women in Europe, by strait lacing destroying their health, through 

 a mistaken notion of improving their beauty, 16 ; remarkable in- 

 stance of the power of imagination upon the fffitus, Io7. 



tt'oods, in Britain, cut down by the Romans, and for what rea- 

 son, ^4. 



Woodcock, or cock of the wood, of the grouse kind ; places 

 which this bird inhabits ; how distinguished from the other birds 

 of the poultry kind ; the delicacy of its flesh ; its food and habitation ; 

 amorous desires first felt in spring ; keeps to the place where he 

 first courts, and continues till the trees have their leaves, and the 

 forest is in bloom ; its cry, clapping of wings, and ridiculous pos- 

 tures in this season ; during which the females, attending his call, 

 are impregnated ; sportsmen use this time to fire at them, and take 

 many irhile thus tame, though at others it is most timorous and 

 watchful ; the female much less than her mate, and so unlike him in 

 plumage, she might be mistaken for another species; number and 

 size of the eggs ; she hatches them without the cock, and when 

 obliged to Ie;ive them in quest of food, so covers them with moss 

 or leaves, it is difficult to find them ; she is then extremely tame 

 and qniet ; keeps her nest, though attempted to be driven away ; 

 the young being hatched, they run with agility after the mother, 

 though scarcely disengaged from the shell ; their food ant's eggs, 

 and wild mountain berries ; older, they feed upon the tops of 

 hether, and cones of pine-trees ; are hardy; the clutching time 

 over, the young males forsake the mother, keep together til! 

 spring, when the first genial access sets them at variance for ever ; 

 fight each other like garne-cocks, and easily fall a prey to the 

 fowler, 505 to 507. 



Woo'lrock, bird of the crane kind ; its dimensions, food, 568. 



H'uttiUhut , a rapacious bird ; third kind of the butcher bird, 487. 



Wood/oust, its description ; has three varieties, 758. 



Woodpecker, of this bird are many kinds and varieties in each ; 

 general characteristics ; description of the green woodpecker, or 

 woodspite ; called the rain-fuivl in some parts; its food; its 

 tongue, the instrument for killing and procuring food ; want that 

 intestine which anatomists call the ccecum ; in what manner they 

 make nests, and how delicate in the choice ; number of eggs ; 

 nests in warmer regions of Guinea and Brasil ; little woodpecker, 

 called by the natives of Brasil /riiirntein<;ii, 519 to 521. 



Wuvdward, his essay towards a natural history ; detail of it, 8. 



Wool, the Spanish finer than ours ; but in weight not comparable 

 to that of Lincoln or Warwickshire ; some Spanish wool required 

 to work up with it, 243. 



Worms of different kinds infest each species of fish, 659 ; sea- 

 worms make the shells of fishes their food, 681 ; within the body 

 of the caterpillar, devour its entrails without destroying its life, 

 795. 



Worm (blind) of the serpent kind ; lies torpid all winter, 796. 



If or ii> ( froth) an insect in that sort of substance on the surface 

 of plants, 779. 



Worm kind, general description of the earth-worm, 829. 



Wrasse, the labrus, of the prickly-finned thoracic kind. 648. 



Wren and golden- crowned wren, slender-billed birds of the spar- 

 row kind, 537; willow wren, a wandering bird of the sparrow 

 kind, 53d. 



Wrinkles, whence those of the body and face proceed, 174. 

 Wryneck, or cuckoo's attendant, a little bird most active in the 

 chase of the young cuckoo, 524. 



Xiphias, or the sword-fish, of the prickly-finned apodal kind, 648. 



Y. 



Yellow-hammer, a small bird of the sparrow kind, 537, 538. 

 Young People sometimes cease growing at fourteen or fifteen, 

 140. 



Z. 



Zealand, inundations there, in which many villages were and 

 remain overflowed, 82. 



Zebra, the most beautiful, but wildest animal ; a native of the 

 southern parts of Africa ; nothing exceeds the delicate regularity 

 of its colour ; description ; watchful and swift ; its speed a pro- 

 verb among Spaniards and Portuguese ; stands better upon its 

 legs than a horse ; in what countries found ; the Portuguese pre- 

 tend to have tamed, and tsent four from Africa to Lisbon, to draw 

 the king's coach ; some sent to Brasil could not be tamed ; Me- 

 rolla asserts when tamed, they are still as estimable for swiftness 

 as beauty ; their noise resembles the confused barking of a mastiff 

 dog ; in two, the author saw, the skin below the jaw, upon the 

 neck, hung loose in a kind of dewlap ; they are easily fed ; ome in 

 England eat bread, meat, and tobacco ; the Emperor of Japan 

 made a present of sixty thousand crowns value, for one received 

 from the governor of Batavia ; the great Mogul gave two thoo- 

 sand ducats for another ; African Ambassadors to the court of Con- 

 stantinople, bring some with them, as presents for the Grand 

 Seignior ; zebra and wild ass of a very different species, 445, 446. 



Zebu, the barbary cow, and the grunting and Siberian cow, are 

 but different races of the bison, 240. 



Zeiran, name of the fourth variety of gazelles, by Mr. Bufton, 

 251. 



Zembla (Nova) north wind reigns there during winter, 101 ; a 

 description of its inhabitants, 178. 



Zens, or doree, of the prickly-finned thoracic kind ; its descrip- 

 tion, 649. 



Zibet, one of the two species of the civet, according to Mr. Buf~ 

 fon ; distinction between them, 340. 



Zone ( Temperate) properly speaking the theatre of natural his- 

 tory, 5. 



Zone (Torrid) in the centre the heat very tolerable, in other 

 places the cold painful ; temperature and advantages of perpetual 

 spring under it, 44 ; lightning there not fatal or dangerous, 111; 

 has the largest quadrupeds ; all fond of the water, 23! I. 



Zoophytes, name of vegetable nature endued with animal life, 

 828 ; first class of zoophytes, 829 ; all the tribe continue to live in 

 separate parts ; one animal by cuttings divided into distinct exist- 

 ences, sometimes into a thousand, 831 ; second class, 832. 



Zorilte, a stinkard of the weasel kind ; resembles the skink ; if 

 smaller, and more beautifully coloured, 338. 



