INDEX. 315 



than a gnlf of the ocean, 38. Is the only fea that freezes 

 totally ; and why, 47. Its diredion fimilar to that of rivers, 

 253. According to Diodorus Siculus, it was originally a 

 great lake or river, 323. A notion of M. Tournelort's coa-» 

 cerning it refuted, ib. Receives more rivers than the Medi- 

 terranean, 325. Is Icfs clear and Iklt than the ocean, 327. 

 Its tcinpefta more violent and dangerous, ib. 



Black cattle fond of licking thenilelves, by which means baits 

 of hair are formed in their llomachs, iii. 455. 



Blind moufe. See IVater Jlyrenv. 



Boar. See li'ild Boar, and Ethiofic and Caj>e Verd hoar. 



Bobak defcribcd, vii. 198. 



Bonafus, vii. 150. The fame with the bifon of the Latins, 168. 



Bon. .ila : An incredible number of goats on that ifland, iii. 



493- 



Bones ; the manner in which they grow, ii. 473. Anology be- 

 tween their growth and that of wood, 474. Become more 

 folid as vi^e advance in years, 477. Are fofter in women thaa 

 in men, ib. 



Bos, iii. 423.n. vi. 151 n. 



Bofner, an Ealt Indian Ifland, where much bezoar is found, vi. 

 437- n. 



Bofphorus will, in time, probably, be filled up, i. 323. 



Bouc eltain, vi. 363, n. Bouc favage, ;i. 



Bourguet gives a fpecimen of a theory of the earth, but would 

 probably not have fucceeded had he gone on wicn it, i. 122. 

 Firil remarked the regularity of the angles of mountains, 240. 

 See Mountain. 



Brain cannot be the fountain of fenfation. iv. 173. Is only a 

 fpecies of mucilage, and hardly organized, 174. Is an organ 

 of fecretion and nutrition, 175. Knot proportionally larger 

 in man than other animals, 176. Ought not to be regarded 

 as an organic part of the nervous fyltem, 177. Why the 

 coniprellion of it deltroys fenlatiou, ib. Fafts which (hew 

 that the brain is not the organ of fenfation, ib. 



Brafilian cat. See Jaguar. 



Brafilian weafel See Coati mondi. 



Britain formerly a part of the Continent, i. 489. 491. 



Brittany, a province in it overwhelmed with fand, 508. 



Brocks, 



