INDEX. 325 



gravities, 179. Probable conje(fture concerning the forma- 

 tion of the globe, i S 1 . Sand and clay, the i'coriae of burnt 

 matter, 187. Obfervatious of different authors on the various 

 changes which have taken place on the furface of the earth, 

 223. Of the inequalities on the earth's furface, 228. — 250. 

 Thefe inequalities necellary to life and vegetation, 228. 

 Phylical nectffity for irs irregularity, 229. Prools of the au- 

 thor's theory, 243. Of the materials of the earth, and how 

 they are arranged, 244. Surface of the eartli mod unequal 

 in countries thinly inhabited, 282. The author's theory firft 

 fuggefled, from obferving the correfpondence between the 

 angJes of oppofite mountains, 366. Summary of the doiflrine 

 concerning the earth, 512. 



Earthquakes ; diflertation upon them, i. 408. ; are produced by 

 volcanoes, 417. Accounts ot feveral terrible earthquakes, 

 418. Gentile's remarks on earthquakes, 427. Whether earth- 

 quakes are capable of raifing mountains, 427. See Mountain. 

 Earthquakes of two kinds dcfcribed, 432.; caufes of thofc 

 which extend their efFeifls over wide regions, 434. 



Echinus, iv. 300. n. 



Ecureuil d'Amerique, v. 326. u. 

 ■ ■ — Suiffe, V. 329. n. 



— -^ Volant, V. 307. n. 



Eggs ; Experiments upon them by Fabricius ab Aquapcndeutc, 

 ii. 86. ; how they are difpofcd within the body of a hen, ii>, 

 Harvey's fyftem of generation by means of eggs, ii. 89. Sec 

 Generation. Eggs conftitute the firll clafs of organic beings, 

 219.; are only inilruments for fupplying the place of uteri ia 

 thofe animals deprived of this organ, 242. The term Egg 

 applied by anatomifts to things of a very oppolite nature, 



Elephant, the moft refpeiftable animal in the world except man, 

 vi. I. ]s able to kill a lion with his tulks, 6. His immenfe 



fhrength, ib.; hath been exceedingly efteetiied in all ages, 7. 

 Account of the famous wiiite elephant in India, faid to be 

 300 years old, 8. n. Elephants in a wild ftate are not fan- 

 guinary, 10. The hunters dare only attack the fliaggling 

 ones, II. Thefe anin.als are extremely fufpicious, and Ijn- 

 fible of injuries, 1 2. Their fenfe of fmelling is exceedingly 

 acute, ib. They are e>:cellent fwimmers, 13. An enraged 

 elephant can be flopped only by fire, 14. n. Account of their 



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