INDEX. 



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tare and habit?, ib. 537;' whetlier an 

 mifinislied quadruped, 537—541 ; a 

 minute account of its appearance 

 and liabits in the woods of South 

 America from Waterton, 537 — 511 

 I).; abstinence, 511; two additional 

 varieties from India, 541 n. 



Smelling, an inferior sense in man, i. 

 371 ; power of, possessed by some 

 nations, ib. ; uses of, ib. ; the taste of 

 different nations in respect to the ob- 

 jects of, 37:2 ; sense of, possessed by 

 birds, iii. 6. 



fmitlifield, an ancient horse-market, 

 description ot the trials of horses 

 there, i. 491 n. 



Smurslin, a favourite shell-fish with 

 the natives of Orkney, iv. 72 n. 



Snail, the garden, its process informing 

 its shell described, iv. 38-^0 ; organs 

 of the, 51, W ; horns and eyes on the 

 two uppermost, 52 ; organs of gener- 

 ation, ib. ; coupling, 53 ; eggs, ib. ; 

 gn.'wth of the shell, ib. 54 ; can mend 

 Its shell when broken, ib. ; not make 

 a new un.; ib. ; method of motion, 

 ib. ; slime, ib. ; appetite, 55 ; killed 

 by salt, &c. ib. ; torpidity, and man- 

 ner of burying itself, ib. ; awakening, 

 and voracity, i ; instance of its ten- 

 acity of life, 56 n. ; one species eaten 

 by the Romans, 5li n. ; how ki-pt, fed, 

 and fattened, ib. 57 n. ; eaten in 

 Switzerland, 57 n. ; in Vienna, ib.; in- 

 troduced into England, ib. ; Scotland, 

 ib. ; attempt of Drs Black and Hut- 

 ton to eat snails, described by Sir 

 Walter Scott, ib. ;:nd58 n ; varieties 

 of the snail, 56; the fresh-water, ib. ; 

 its peculiarities, 57; manner of rising 

 to the surface, 58 ; viviparous, ib. ; 

 brought forth with the stony cuat, 

 ib. 59; sea-snaib, 59; manner of im- 

 pregnation, ib. , want horns, 60; con- 

 volutions of the shell, ib. ; the tro- 

 chus kind, ib. , the nautilus, 62. 



Snail, the sea, whence the name, iii. 520; 

 the, described, ib. 



Snake, the black, the largest of English 

 serpents described, iv. 184 ; not vene- 

 nions, ib. and n. ; manner of attack, 

 and how repelled, ib. and 185 n. ; prey 

 of the, 185; oviparous, ib. ; torpid in 

 winter, ib. ; uses of the, in America, 

 185 n. 



Snake-root, Virginian, the best cure for 

 the bite of the rattle-snake, iv. 177. 



Snipe, habitudes of the, iii. 3K3 n. ; 

 adaptation of its tongue, ib. ; migra. 

 tioiis of the, ib. ; flesh, ib. ; the uou- 

 ble, 317 ; the little, ib. 



Snow-ball, a celebrated greyhound, ac- 

 count of, li. 200 n. 



Sobbing, whence it proceeds, i. 321. 



Soland goose, iii. 379. See Gauuet. 



Sole, the, what remarkable in the fish, 

 iii. 538 n. ; account of the, 539 n. 



Solfatara, valley of, exhibits the ettect* 

 of earthquakes, i. 91. 



Solon, his opinion of the beauty of the 

 pheasant, iii. 126. 



Sooboo, the dolphin of the Ganges, de- 

 scription of the, iii. 182, 183 n. 



Sound, transmitted by the atmosphere, 

 i. 224 n. ; according to what laws, ib-; 

 echoes of, 225 n. ; enlarged in build, 

 ings, ib. ; reflection of, 225, 226 n. ; 

 how produced, 358 ; how rendered a 

 tone, 359; reflected, 3C3. 



Spalax, the, or blind rat, described, ii 

 349 n. ; construction of tiie organs o 

 sight, ib. ; hearing, ib. ; the aspalas 

 of the Greeks, ib. ; lives gregariously 

 under ground, 350 n. 



Spaniards, their value for asses, i. 508. 



Spaniel, the large and small water, de. 

 scribed, ii. iO.") n. 218 ; the springing, 

 206 u. ; Alpine, 207 n. 



Sparrow kind, tiirds of the, their abode 

 near man, iii. 218, 219; why they 

 avoid forests, 219; attachment to 

 places, ib. ; accounts of their flights 

 and passages, 220 ; arts of the bird, 

 catcher to take them, ib. 221 ; con- 

 tentions of the, 222 ; singing, proper 

 to the male, ib. ; the female, nest, 

 and young, ib — 224 ; pairing of the, 



224 ; chastityi described by Addison, 



225 ; exceptions, ib. ; resemblances 

 among the, ib. 2^6 ; classification, 

 226; slender-billed, ib. ; their food, 

 ib. ; and song, 2i7 ; thick-billed, 228 ; 

 their food, 229; note, ib. ; those or 

 pas age, 2:i0 ; their seasons of mIgra. 

 ti.in, 231—234. 



Sparrow, the, its habitudes, described, 

 iii. 226—228 n. ; anecdote of the af- 

 fection of, for its ottspring, 228 u. ; 

 song, of America, its note, 250 n. 



Sparus, a prickly-finned fish, iii. 533. 



Spawn of fishes, account of ihe, iii. 45-4, 

 455; estimate of its immense amount, 

 558, 559. 



Speech, acquisition of, by infants, i. 

 306. 



Spermaceti, found in the head of the 

 cachalot, iii. 480; how distributed 

 there, 481 ; uses of, ib. ; how the 

 whole oil of the fish convertible into, 

 ih. ; where the whales that yield 

 it, abound, ib. n. 



.Spider, the, described, iv. 203, 204 and 

 u. ; remarkable nest of one, 203 n. ; 

 habits of the venatores at Rome, 20-1 

 n. ; discipline, ib. ; nest of the laby. 

 rinthic, iOS n. ; of the house-spider, 

 ib. ; of the geometric or net- working, 

 ill. 206 u. ; of the mason.spider, 20(i 

 n. ; the Martinico, 207 ; of one that 

 carries air to breathe under water, ib. 

 n.-, the body of the spider described, 

 207, 208 ; its web described, 209, 210 ; 

 its power of renewing the web, 210 

 211; contests of tlie, 211 and n.; eal» 



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