INDEX. ^ 533 



Butterflies. Defcrlptlon of them, 101. Gave rife to the notion 

 of fhowers of blood, 307. Void drops of blood, 308. 



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Cabins. See beaver j. 



Camel and dromedary, bedde four ftomachs, have a refer- 

 voir for holding water, 73. Their manners and difpoh- 

 tions, 74. 



Camel-cricket. Regarded as a facred animal, 100. 



Carnivorous aninials. See animals. Their ftruclure adapt- 

 ed to their difpofitions, 66. Are not Co apj: to devour wo- 

 men as men, 2 1 4. Man the mofl rapacious of all animals, 

 380. Of carnivorous quadrupeds, 382. Of carnivorous 

 birds, 386. Of carnivorous infcxHis, 387. Advantages 

 derived from animals preying upon one another, 394. 

 Carnivorous animals are the barriers againfl: noxious inun- 

 dations of other kinds, 397. 



Caterpillars. See infedls. Their mode of refpiring, 132. 

 Are of no fex, 248. When they arrive at the age of pu- 

 berty, 270. Of their transformations, 295. Caft their 

 lliins, 295, 303. Their different modes of retiring pre- 

 vious to their transformation. A defcriptlon of them, 294. 

 The circulation of their blood changes its direftlon, 298, 

 Their different modes of behaving when about to trans- 

 form, 303. Spinning of the iilk-worm, defcribed, 303. 

 The flies exift in the bodies of the caterpillars, 305. Some 

 of them devour their own fpccies, 386. Have number- 

 lefs enemies, 388. Without a profufion of them fmall 

 birds could not be fupported, 399. Common kind affo- 

 ciate, 429. Some of them are republicans, 432. 



Caufe. We muft at laft have recourfe to a final caufe, 339. 



Cells. See bees, and wafps. Air-cells in birds defcribed, 12 L 



Chain. Of the progreflive chain of beings, 521, 



Changes of form. See transformations. 



Characters of animals, 467. How they may be modified, ibid. 

 Individual charadfers often ftrongly marked, 468. 



Chermes. The female of this infedt depoiits her eggs in the 

 leaves of trees, and produce thofe protuberances called 

 galls, 101. 



Children. See Infants. The gradual progvefs of their In^ 

 flings, 439. 



Chryfalids. A defcriptlon of them, 297. 

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