INDEX. '^i 



- Dorcas, iv.' 1 20. n. 

 Dordrecht; a terrible inundation therein 14^6,!. 442. Thd 



city feparated fronn the main land by a fimilar inundation in 



1421, p. 493. 

 Dormoufe or deeper, iv. 334. Specimens of thefe animals not 



eafily procured, //;. Two fpecies of them found in Italy, 335^ 



Sleeps during the winter, iL 

 Douc, or Cochin-Ciiina monkey defcribed, vili. 168. 

 Drake's account of the Acridophagi, or locuft eaters of JEthio^ 



pia, iii. 135. 

 Dreams brought as a proof of the memory of brutes, iii. 256- 



Are produced independent of the mind, 257. In dreaming 



we have fenfations, but no ideas, 258. They never occur 



during profound fleep, 259. Difference between our dreams 



and thofeof brutes, 261. 

 Drill, viii 77. n. 

 Dromedary defcribed, vi. 1 1 8. Their great fwiftnefs, 1 29. n, 



130. n. Whence the bunches on the backs of thefe animals, 



and of the camel, proceed, 137. Dromedaries produced at 



Drefden, 149. 

 Dugon, or Indian Walrus, defcribed, vii. 70. Is diftinft frorn 



the fea-lion, 371. ; called by fome the lea-bear, or the fea- 



cow, 371. 372. 

 Dumb people have no abftraiS and general knowledge, iii. 36* 



Account of one who fuddenly began to fpeak, il/. Dumb 



perfons taught to fpeak by Pereire, 38. ; and by Mr Braid-> 



wood of Edinburgh, 39. n. 



Earth, fuppofed by Wliidon to have undergone various changes 

 from the tail of a comet, i. 2. Burnet's imaginations con- 

 cerning it, 3. Principal appearances of the globe explained 

 by Woodward from the action of an internal abyfs, ii. Ge- 

 neral defcription of the earth, 4, Shows itfelf to be only thd 

 ruins of a world. Our knowledge of it only fuperficial, 6. 

 Matter of which it is compofed four times heavier than that 

 of the fun, i/i. Its upper Rratum compofed of decayed ani- 

 mals and vegetables, 12. Its ftrata always parallel to each 

 X » other, 



