INDEX. 3CJ 



Amadabad ; three hofpitals for animals in that city, vi!i. 151. 

 .Stran_c;e relation of the behaviour of the monkeys in that 

 neighbourhood, ib. 



Amazon river runs more than icoo leagues, i. 26S. Received 

 more than 60 confiderable rivers, 273. Its courfe defcribed) 

 5 '9. The Indians who dwell on its banks are fond of the 

 flefh of monkeys, viii. 1 79. 



Ambergris fuperfeded the ufe of civet, and has itfeif ceafed to 

 be admired as a perfume, v. 253. 



America much infei^ed with volcanoes, i. 416. Produces none 

 of the animals common in the warm parts of the Old Conti- 

 nent, vii. 77. Produced no horned cattle fimilar to thofe of 

 Europe, till they were imported, v. 96 ; nor iheep nor goats, 

 99. ; wild boars, nor domeftic hogs, 100; nor dogs nor cats, 

 103. 107. 



American favages deflitute of the principle of love, v 1 30. 1 3 1 .; 

 may be confidered as a new race of men, lii. 188. v. 139.; 

 make a kind of balls of feals ikin, which they ufe as rafts, vii. 



347- 



Andira guacu, vi 2 S3, n. 



Animalcules in femine mafcullno. See Generation. 



Animals ; analogies between them and vegetables, il. t. Di- 

 ftinguifhed from vegetables by fenfation, 6. Uncertain whe- 

 ther brutes have fenfation or not, 7. Kxcecd plants in the 

 number of fpecies,9. Differ more from each other than plants^- 

 ib. Diftinguifhable from each other by their manner of co* 

 pulation, 10. Of their reprodufllon. See Repm/'K^/oK. Their 

 nutrition. See Nutriti'yn. Their generation. See Generatioi:. 

 Account of the idea conveyed by the word animal, ii. 216. 

 Large animals Icfs prolific than fmall ones, 255. Thofe 

 which produce but one at a birth, acquire nearly their full 

 growth before they are capable of propagation, 257. Many 

 animals propagate rather by a kind of compreffion than co- 

 pulation, 2J9. Difference among them with regard to fexes, 

 260. Alterations which happen in the body, as preparatives 

 to generation, 261. See Organic matter. Diverfities with re- 

 gard to their teeth, 456. Animals furniflied With hands 

 feem to have the moft fagacity, ili. 46. 292. Such as have> 

 no hands, cannot have any idea of magnitud', and, therefore, 

 are often terrified, iii. 46. A dilfertation on their nature, 

 208. Animals have fome fenfcs of e.tquillte acutenefs ; but 

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