INDEX. 319 



Civet defcribed, v. 239. Twofpecies of the animal, 240. Has 

 nothing in common with the cat but agility of body, 243. 

 Defcription of the perfume called civet, ib. This muft not 

 be confounded with the mufk, ib. The two fpecies of civets 

 have never been properly diftinguifhed, 244. The ciVets, 

 though originally natives of Africa and Afia, can live in tem- 

 perate, and even cold countries, ^49. Great numbers of 

 civets kept in Holland, ih. Manner of colleaing the perfume, 

 2 JO. Exceeding ftrength of civet as a perfume, 251. Thefe 

 animals naturally favage, and even ferocious, 252. Civet 

 now little ufeJ, 253. Account of a civet kept at Fort Mine, 

 on the African coaft, ib. 

 Civette, V. 259. n. 



Clay p;rfe>5lly analogous with fand, i. 184. 

 Coaita, a fpecies of monkey defcribed, viii. 184. Cannot bear 



cold, 185. 

 Coal mines fometimes take fire, but never burn like volcanoes, 



i. 44r. 

 Coati, or Brafilian weafel, defcribed, v. 53. Two varieties of 

 the fpecies, ib. Difference between the Coati and the Ra- 

 coon, 54. This animal, by fome, confounded with the fow- 

 badger, ib. Miftake of Aldrovandus concerning it, ib. The 

 Coati has a cuftom of gnawing the extremity of his own tail, 

 55;. Inferences from this faiSt, ib. Is an animal of prey, 56. 

 Coati -mondi, a name given by fome authors to the coati, v. 

 53. Is a variety of the fame fpecies, ib. Account of one 

 kept by Linnaeus, 56. Has an unaccountable averfion to 

 hog's brlftles, ib. Is a very fleepy animal, 57. 

 Cochon d'eau, vii. 64. n. 

 Cockles ; vafl: numbers of petrified ones found in fome places, 



i. 221. 

 Comets mull fometimes fall into the fun, i. 66. Confequence 

 of their falling perpendicularly, and of falling obliquely, i. 67. 

 How they may detach a quantity of matter from the fun, ib. 

 Such an event might podibly produce other changes in the 

 folar fyftem, zi. n. A comet of no great fize might detach a 

 ■ 650th part of the fun's bulk, 68. A comet, fuppofed by 

 Whillon to be the caufe of the deluge, 99. 104. That the 

 earth was at firft an uninhabitable comet, 101. Its atmof- 

 phere was a chaos of heterogeneous materials, ib. Hence the 



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