CONTENTS. IX 



—The Herring — Description of the migratory Shoals — Import- 

 ance of the Herring Fishery— The Pilchard— Important Anec- 

 dote— The Golden Fish, 113 



CHAPTER V. 



Crustaceous Animals — The Lobster — Crab — Land Crab— Soldier 

 Crab— The Tortoise Kind— The Land Tortoise— Turtle and its 

 Varieties — Testaceous Fishes — The Oyster — Account of the 

 Pearl Fishery, 120 



PART III.— REPTILES. 



CHAPTER I. 



General Remarks — The Frog — Toad — Crocodile — Combats be- 

 tween the Crocodile and the Tiger — Mode of catching Crocodiles 

 among the Siamese — Of taming them — The Salamander — Cha- 

 meleon — Inguana, 127 



CHAPTER II. 



Serpents— Characteristics— General Remarks— The Liboya— Rat- 

 tlesnake— Common Snake — Viper — Glow-Worm — Reflections, 134 



PART IV.— INSECTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Characteristics— General Remarks— The Scorpion — Silk Worm 

 — Manner of keeping Silk Worms — Their Manner of Spinning 

 Silk — Commercial Importance of this Insect — The Bee — Float- 

 ing Bee Houses — The Locust — Destructive visits of this Insect 

 —Hydra, 139 



CHAPTER II. 



Concluding Reflections on the conformation of Animal Bodies — 

 Correspondence of the two sides, and the exact resemblance of 

 their component Parts — The Animal Body considered as a mass 

 — The covering of Animals adapted to their Mode of Living — 

 Structure of the Heart, the Complexity of its Mechanism, and 

 the Regularity of its Pulsations — Structure of the Eye, its Posi- 

 tion, and the Nature of Vision — Convincing Proofs of an all- 

 wise Design in the formation of the Universe, and, consequently, 

 of the Existence of a Supreme Intelligence, 148 



