I N D E Xi 321 



laws with the land rivers, 361. Account of the moft remark- 

 able currents in the worlJ, 362. In mountainous places of 

 the fea, the currents are necelfarily violent, 364. Hencs 

 they are very rapid and dangerous in the Indian ocean. Hi. 

 Are produced by the coafts repelling the water of the fea to 

 different diftances, 365. The currents of the ocean have 

 fcooped out our valleys, and formed our mountains, ib. 



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iDalenpatiLis pretends to have difcovered feveral kinds of animals 

 in the femen, ii. 131. 



Dama, iv. 1 13. n. 



Dafypus, V. 366. n. 



Dead fea ; account of the water it receives by rivers, and of 

 what it lofes by evaporation, i. 271. 



Death ; its natural caufe common to animals and vegetables, ii. 

 478. Cannot be avoided, 479. We ought not to be afraid 

 of it, 487. Is not attended with much pain,//;. The terror 

 of death is greateft at a diftance, 488. Death maybe oc- 

 cafioned by continued pain, 491. Account of the death of 

 Charles XII ib. Miay ofthefem;tle fex die through the ter- 

 ror of death, 4^2. The author's doiflrine confirmed by the un- 

 certainty of the figns of death, 493. A certain condition of 

 life has a great refemblance to der.th, 494. We ought not, 

 therefore, to be hally in burying perfons fuppofcd to be 

 dead, ib. 



Deer ; thatfpecies of animals defcribed, iv. 74. n. 



Deluge could not have tranfported frorri the ocean all the flielli 

 which are found on dry land, i. 14 Nor couli it have dif- 

 iclved the fubftanceof the eanh, 15. Acogrdiug to Whifton, 

 the deluge happened on Wedueliiaj^ 28th November, 104. 

 Suppofedtobe occafioned by the tail of a comtt, *i. And 

 by the waters of the abyfs, iq5. How, on tnis fuppofitlon^ 

 the waters of the deluge were difpofed of, 106. Burnet's 

 hypothefis concerning it, 1 11. Woodward's hypothecs of 

 an univerfal dilfolution by the water, 1 1 3. The face of the 

 .earth before the deluge much the fame as now, i rfi. Wood- 

 wards hypothefu infufficieuc, 120, And liicswif? Whlfton'sj, 

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