3U INDEX. 



a tame baaver, 26. 41. Beavers are enemies to the otter, 42. 

 The perieclly black and peifecily white furs moll eftc^med, 

 43. This animal furnlfhes the caftoreum, ib. See Ca/ioreuui. 

 Beavers can be fo effei5lually tamed, that they will filh for 

 their maftsrs, 45. Having received from Kalare a gift almoft. 

 equal to that of fpeech, vi. 4. 



Bedas, a race of Ceylonefe favages defcribed, iii. 100. Are a 

 peculiar race of men, ib. 1 80. 



Bees ; an eulogium on them, iii. 283. Our admiration of them 

 ill founded, 284. The genius of folitary bees interior to that 

 of the gregarious fpecies, 2S5. Bees, taken feparately, have 

 Icfs genius than many other animals, ib. ; why they avfl in 

 concert with one another, 286. The hexagonal cells of the 

 bee furnifli an argument of its (lupidity, 290. Bees are not 

 more ingenious than wafps, hornets, 5:c. 292. The provi- 

 fions of the bee and other induftrious animals, are only ule- 

 lefs and difproportioned malies, 297. 



Behemoth, the Hebrew name of the hippopotamus, vi. 277. n. 



Beori, vi. 244. n. 



Bergen j vail numbers of rav.' hides exported from thence, vi. 

 499. 



Bezoar, faid to be the produflion of one fpecies of animals only, 

 vi. 424.; but without fufficient reafon, 426. 431. A kind of 

 bezoar from apes, 429. ; different Ironi the true bezoar, 430. 

 The true kind dekribed, ib. It is found in a great number 

 of diifereut animals, 432. Mod quadrupeds, and even croco- 

 diles and large ferpents, produce a kind ot bezoars, 440. 



Birds i their fagacjty and forefight arife merely from inftinci, 

 iii. 297. Inftead of knowing the future, they are ignorant 

 even of the paft, 298. Why domeftic poultry make nells 

 ■\Vorfe than wild fowls, ib. 



Bifon Jubatus, vi. 151. The bifon is not properly a dilUnct 

 fpecies of animal, 154. 157. 172- '88. Origin of the word 

 I'ijo", 157- 'lie bifon of the Latins the fame with the bona- 

 fus of Arirtotle. 168. Bifon of America might proceed ori- 

 ginally from the European bifon, 170- Bifons vary greatly 

 in fize, &c. 185. They have degenerated in America, 187. 



piack fea receives more water from the rivers which run into it 

 than is fufficient for its fupport, i- 36. Might have lormerly 

 been only a large lake joined by a narrow communication to 

 tl^c Cafpian, ib. Ought iliU to be co;ilidercd rather as a lake 



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