322 INDEX, 



121. Bourguet's theory, 123. Scheut/.er's opinion, I26, 

 The face of the earth could not be changed by the deluge, 

 129. Ought only to be confidered as a fupernatural mode of 

 puniifhing human wlckednefs, 130. Could not poffiblylse the 

 effeft of any phytical caufe, 132. The earth, or at leail fome 

 parts of it, mult have been in a different fituation before the 

 deluge, from what it is now, 193. Examples of different de- 



luges, 50 



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Delos arofe from the bottom of the fea, i. 442. Why called 

 Pelagia, 443. 



Des Cartes, the firfi; who explained natural appearances on the 

 principles of mechanifm, ii 47. How he attempted to ex- 

 plain the formation of the foetus on thefe principles, 81. 



Devil's hole ; a cavern in Derbyrtilre, defcribed, i. 451. 



Didelphis, V. 407. n. 



Dog defcribed, iv. 1. In a wild ilate is formidable to all ani- 

 mals, 2. Importance of this fpecies in the fyllem of nature, 

 4. Wild dogs differ from wolves only by the facility with 

 which they are tamed, 7. Vaft numbers of wild dogs in A 

 merica, 8. Great varieties among dogs, 9. Shepherd's dog 



> approaches nearer to the primitive race than any other, 16. 

 The largeil dogs found in thofe countries which produce the 

 moft beautiful of the human race, 18. Irilh giey-hound cal- 

 led by the ancients the dog of Epirus or Albania, ib. Pliny's 

 defcription ot a battle between one cf thefe dogs, firft with a 

 lion and then with an elephant, //;. Dogs degenerate in hot 

 climates, 23. Their ilelh preferred by the negroes to that ot 

 all other animals, ib. An unfuccefsful experiment made by 

 Buffon to make a dog copulate with a Ihe wolf, 24. An- 

 other unfuccefsful attempt to make a fox copulate with a. 

 bitch, 26. A fuccefsful experiment of making a wolf copu- 

 late with a bitch, 27. n. Another of the fame kind, viii. 7. 

 Thirty varieties of Jogs enumerated, iv. 30. Dogs not pev- 

 feaiy formed at birth, 33. Genealogical table of dogs ex- 

 plained, 37. Account of a bitch who fuckled puppies 

 and cat?, without having any connexion with a male, 42. 

 Siberian dogs of different kinds defcribed, 43. Mr Colinfon's 

 defcription of thofe which draw carriages in Siberia, 45. 01 

 the wild dogs, 47. The fox defcribed under the name ot 

 dog,2t4.n. 



Domertic animals. See ArAnuils. 



Dorcii!, 



