INDEX. 341 



of a mule with a mare, 15. Proofs of the fecundity of com- 

 mon mules, 15 — 21. 



Mus, iv. 275. n. 285. n. 290.11. 293. n. 296. n. 30J. n. 334. n, 

 339. n. ; V. 58. n 261. n. 392. n. 406. n. 435. n. 438. b. ; 

 vii. 2©2. n. 316. n. ; vili. 229. n. 233. n. 235. n. 267.11. 



Mufaraneus, iv 305. n. 



MufFafcus, V. 260. n. 



Mufk defcribed, vii. 44. This animal firft taken notice of by 

 the Arabians, 45. Guiney mulk defcribed, vii. 27. 



Mu(k rats ot Canada and Mufcovy defcribed, v. 260. Thefe 

 animals ought not to be confounded with each other, or with 

 the mufk-rac of the Antilles, 261. M. Sarrafm's obfervations 

 on the Canadian mulk rat, 263. Differences between this 

 animal and the beaver, 267. Their odour, though agreeable 

 to the Europeans, is extremely difguftful to favages, 269, 

 Mulk rat of Mufcovy has never been examined alive, or dif- 

 fefled by any Naturalift, 270. 



Mufmon, vi. 205. n. 



Mufqualk, v. 260. n. 



Muftache monkey defcribed, viii. 163. Called JVhite-nofehj the 

 voyagers to Guiney, ib. Is the mod beautiful of all the mon- 

 keys, 164. 



Muftela, iv. 232. n. 239. n. 345. n. 248. n 252. n. 257. n. 

 262. n. ; V. 354. n. 328. n. ; vii. aio. a. 220. n. 274. n. 309, 

 n. 32i.n. ; viii. 267. n. 



Myrmecophaga, v. 333. 



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Nature : Firft view of it, vi. 249. ; may be confidered as an im- 

 menfe living- power, ib. ; wants only the power of creating 

 and annihilating to render her omnipotent, 250. View of 

 the ditferent bodies which conlliiute the fyftem of Nature, 

 252. Second view of Nature, vii. 89. Confideration of the 

 different fpecies of animals by which the earth is inhabited 

 ib. 



Negroes ; account of different nations of them, iii. 140. et fiq. 



Niagara ; Charlevoix's account of the famous catarail there, 

 i. 280. Is not lefsthan 140 or 150 feet high, 281. 



Nil-gaujt, vii. 42. a. 



y 3 North- 



