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INDEX. 



n. ; season of spawning, 541 n. ; re- 

 sorts of the, ib. ; ill winter and sum- 

 mer, ib. ; varietiee, ib. 



Trunk of the elephant, account of tlie, 

 ii. 462 and 463 n. 



rumble-dung, a kind of beetle, de- 

 scribed, iv. 3il ; its sense of smelling, 

 ib. ; kings of the class, 382. 



Tumbler, a kind of dog, described, ii. 



213 n. 218. 



Turbinated ahell.fish, iv. 44, 51. 



Turbot, tlie, desciibed, iii. 538 n. ; 

 where found, ib. ; how fished uli 

 Yorkshire, ib. 



Turk, White.name of a celebrated horse, 

 i. 495 n. 



Turkey, its original country, iii. 118; the 

 American wild, 119; habits in the 

 ■wild state, ib. ; lio.v hunted, ib. ; 

 habits, animosities, and antipathies of 

 the tame, 12U ; cowardice, ib. ; tera;il>' 

 and yonn?, 121 ; screnins aiid agita- 

 tion of the female when the yoimg 

 attacked, 122 ; the wild turkey de- 

 scribed, 120 n. ; then- flocks, ib. ; 

 rearing of young, 121 n. 



Turkey mouth, why .September so 

 called by the natives of North Amer- 

 ica, iii. 121 o. 



Turnspit, a kind of dog, described, ii. 



214 n. 



Turnstone, the bird,de3cribed, iii. 352 ii. 



Turtle, the, whence its dift'erence from 

 the tortoise arises, iv. 19; the, de- 

 scribed, 28, 29 ; the great Mediter- 

 ranean, or coriaceous, its great .size 

 and uselessness, -^9 ; poisonous, ib. ; 

 account of one of this species, ib. ; of 

 one c;iught near Scarborough, 30 ; 

 those of the Indian ocean, the trunk, 

 ib. ; the loggerhead described, ib. 

 and n. ; where found, ib. n ; bold- 

 ness and strength of it, ib ; food, 

 ib. ; hawksbill or imbricated, 31 ; 

 the green, its estimation, 31 and 

 II. ; wholesomeness, ib. u. ; case in 

 wliich pernicious, ib ; keptin Jamaica 

 in parks, for the Lundoii market, 32 

 n. ; qualities of the. as food, 32; why 

 ealied the green turtle, ib. ; its size, 

 33 ; where most numerous, ib.; corae-, 

 from the sea to fre^h WHter, and to 

 deposit its eggs, ib. ; breeding, 34 ; 

 eggs, ib. ; hatched by the sun, 33 ; 

 how taken, ib. 30 ; harpooned, 36 ; 

 how taken by divers, ib. 



Turtle-dove, its fidelity, iii. 209; four 

 notes in the woods described, 210 n. ; 

 the bird described, 213 ; a bird of pas- 

 sage, 214 ; nests and food, 215. 



Turtle eaters, a people of Ethiopia, 

 described by Diodorus S.culus, iv. 33. 



Tusks of the hog kind, their connection 

 with their veuery, ii. 129 ; ol the ele- 

 phant, 4(54,405 ; weight, 4S5 n. ; trade 

 in the, 483—483 n. 486. 



Typhons or water-spouts, seen at land, 



i. 269; description of one at Hat- 

 field, 1687, ib. ; conjectures concern- 

 ing, 270. 



U 



Unan, a kind of sloth, ii. 535. 



Unicorn, whence the origin of the 

 stories concerning it, iii. 479; the sea, 

 or narwhal, described, 476. 



Univalve, or turbinated shell-fish, :v.44. 



Uranoscopus, the fish, described, iii. 532. 



Urchin, Sea, the proper class of the, 

 IV. 81 n. ; the, described, 81 ; its horns 

 and spines, ib. ; its swiftness notwith. 

 standing its many spines, 82; what 

 sort of Viiod it is, ib. 



Urson, distinguished from the porcu- 

 pine, and described, ii. 339. 



Urns, white, a breed of the wild ox, i. 

 523 n. , <lescribed, il). ; those at Bur- 

 ton Constiible, 524 n. ; habits, ib. ; 

 scarceness of tlie, 525 n. ; the, or wild 

 bull, where found, 529 ; described, 

 in. ; name tninsferred to the bison, 

 533 n. 



Vampyre, the American, described, ii. 

 373 ; blood-sucker, ib. ; UUoa's re- 

 port on this subject confirmed, 374 ; 

 by the coastiuctiou of the tongue, 

 374 n. 



Vausire, a kind of ferret from Madagas- 

 car, described, ii. 269. 



Vapours, noxious in mines, i. 57, &c. 

 (see Gas) ; inflammable, iu Persia, 

 66. 



Vari, n kind of monkey, ii. 444. 



Vegetables, their analogies to animals, 

 i. ^75; most, useful, 279 ; few noxious, 

 280 



Venom of the serpent, the bag of, de- 

 scribed, iv. 160 ; appearance of, 

 through a microscope, 167 ; taste of, 

 1(>8; has been drunk without pro- 

 ducing a bad efl'ect, ib. ; Lucan's 

 observation of this, ib. ; how fatal 

 introduced into the circulation, ib. 

 169 ; experiment showing the potency 

 of, 169; doubts, ib. 



Venomous serpents, their anatomical 

 characters, iv. 164 n. ; seat of the 

 venom, in the animals, 164 ; veno. 

 nious apparatus, 165 n. ; fangs, 164; 

 character and position of the, in dif 

 ferent serpents, 165 n. ; teeth, 166; 

 venomous bag, ib. ; the fangs and the 

 operation of wounding, ih. 167 ; ap- 

 pearances and effects caused by the 

 wound, 167; the veno o, ib. 168; 

 habitudes, 169, 170; food, 170; man- 

 ner of the attack, ib. 



Vesuvius, volcano of Moimt, i. 70 ; 

 eruption of, in 1707, 70, 71 ; one in 

 1717, described by Berkley, 71—74. 



