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Beaver defcrib'd. 271. A counter Poifon, (Caftoreum) produced by it, 272. Ufes of its Down, Skin, Tools, &c. ibid. An Architect from its Nativity,273 Their curious Manfions, Bagnio, Caufey or Dyke, Stories, ibid. &c. They cut Poles or Stakes, and Clay, 273. Cells, 273. Build Houfes on dry Land. 275 Demenfions of them, Affocate to the Number of ten or twelve: ib. Four hundred of them have lodged together, ibid. Beavers called Terriers, ibid. 276. Provifions 277. Storehoufes, ibid. They hew, and pile up Wood very dextroully. ib. How taken by the Hunters, 278. Bee, its Sting feen in a Microscope, Bees, Page 106. Three forts of Bees the Plebeians, the Drones, and the Monarch or Queen, 108. Her State when he goes her Progrefs, 1 10. A general Joy thro all her Dominions at that Seafon, ibid. Her prodigious Fecundity, 111. Their Form, Jaws, Trunk, 114. Defcription of this latter and Ufefulness, ibid. Farther Description of it, 115. The Breaît, 116. Belly confifts of four Parts, viz. the Inteftines, Bag of Honey, Bag of Poifon, Sting: Each of thefe defcribed, 116, 117. How affembled in one Hive, 117, 118, &c. The young Bees go in queft of a new Habitation,

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Live much longer than Wafps, ibid. A wife precaution taken by them with Refpect to the Ledge, at the Entrance into their Lodges, 122, 123. Their Habitations become ftronger by Time, and for what Reafon, 123, 124. Two forts of Wax made by them, and a Defcription of each," 127. How employed by them, 128. The Difpofition of the Cells, 129 In what manner they collect and employ their Wax, 130, 131. &c.Inftances of their Oeconomy, 132. Their Social Spirit and other good Qualities, 134, 135. -Go fometimes four or fix Miles to fuck the Flowers, Bills of Birds, a great Disparity in their Sizes, Bees (wild)a particular Account of them. 136, 137, &c. Bird, its Flight very afstonishing, 198. All fly in a different manner, ibid. entertaining Account of the different Materials and Structures of their Neft, 200, 201. &c. Particularly the Swallow's Neft, 204. The furprising Change of their natural Difpofitions during their Incubation, 205. The Affiduity of the

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their rearing their Young..
209,210,211,c. The Form
of a Bird, 215 The Crop,
Gizzard, and Structure of
the Bones,and their excellent
Accommodation to the Ani-
mal's Flight, ibid. The fine
Difpofition of the Plumage,

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Amel, its valuable Qualities,
Page 265.

Cat,
Caterpillars,

with which the Bird anoints
and dreffes its Feathers,217,
Great Wisdom in the Play
of the Wings and Tail,218.
The Tail ferves as a Rudder,
ibid.
Birds of Prey, how trained up,
237, &c.
-Their Journies cross Seas
very extraordinary, 238.
Birds of the Night fond of -
Gloom. 249 Their Noife
7 doleful, Form hideous, and
Cruelty very great, ibid,
Haunts. Parallel between
them and malignant Dæ--
mons, ib. Attacked by the
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250.
Boats built with the Bones of

Whales, 250, Ufed by the
Greenlanders,
ibid. 301.
Botany, a very agreeable Study,

372.
Butterflies, a beautiful Deferip-
tion of their Production from
Caterpillars,

43, 44.
All Kinds of Butterflies
painted in a Box, 45:
-(Owl) Butterflies that
appear only in the Night,ib.
Butterflies that appear
in the Day,
47.

ibid.

29.

-The Species ofthem that
are already known amount
to above three hundred,
ibid,
What the feveral Species
have in common, vizi
Rings, Feet and Thread,
30.
Precipitate themselves
from Trees by a gummy
Thread, when in Danger.
The furprifing Texture of
this Thread,
ibid.
-Their Hair. The great

Üfe of it,

30.

Colours preferve them

from Birds,

31.

Their Policy in feizing Infects,

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Others affume the Form of
a little Mummy, 38, 39.
Spin themselves a warm
Robe for the Winter, 39,
40. Weave themfelves Beds,
and fpacious Habitations,
whofe Structure is de-
fcribed, 40. Sometimes
produce Swarms of little
Flies, and from what Cause,
41, 42. An Inftance of a
Caterpillar's producing a
large Fly, that gives Battle
to the Garden Spider, 42. A
fine Defcription of the Com-
bat.
ibid.

Cattle, their great Benefit to
Man 262. Care of their
Young, 263 Fondness of
the Young for their Dams
ibid.

90, 91.

Cells of Wafps, Exceeding
regular,
Charity, a Motive to the Exer-
cife of it, from the Genero.
fity of the Bees, 125.
Chocolate, 366. Of what
made,
367.
Chryfalis of Infects, what, 23.
Cinnamon, the Bark of a Tree
found only in Ceylon, 368.
City, built under Ground in a
grand Manner, by Wafps.
Description of it, 89, &,
Civet-cat, is a Beaver in Minia-
278.
Clove, grows on a Tree of the
fame Name,
368.
Cocoa-tree, Plantations of thefe
of great Value, 366.
Cochineal, an Infect. How ma-

ture,

naged. Brood, 154, 135.
Cod-fifb, their great Rendez-
Vous before Newfound-
land. Prodigioufly nume-
rous there. Vaftly fond of

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-Ravage they make in
the Countries adjacent to
their Nefts,
240.
Three or four of their
'Nefts fufficient to furnish a
fplendid Table perpetually,
241.
16, &c.

Eggs of Infects,

None abandon'd by the
18.
-Why laid by different
Animalcula in various forts

Parent to Chance,

234.
312.

Fern, its Seed.
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one another, 288. Great Fe.
eundity,289. End or Inten-
tion in it, 290. Form-or
Figure,Tail, 290,291. Fins,
great Advantages of these to
Fish, ibid. Bladder, or Bag
of Air, 292. Suftains it in
the Water, 293. Contracted
or dilated at pleasure: 294.
Gills, a kind of Lungs,
ibid. Lobfters, Oysters, &c.
have no Occafion for thefe
Bags, 297. Fins used as
Needles,
Fibery (Pearl) Coafts where
'tis carried on, unhealthy.,
193.

it.

301.

Fibery, (Whale) Defcription of
303.
Fly, its Head covered with a
Profufion of Gold and Pearls,
10.

Fly. (common one) its Eye,
of a furprizing_Structure,
146. Wings, Packet of
Sponges, great Cleanlinefs
of the Fly, 147, &'c. I runk,
a Piercer, 148. Its Ufes. ib.
Flax, much of the fame Nature
with Hemp,355. How
gathered,
ibid.
Flowers, 345 Their Leaves.

a kind of Palifade to them,
347. Seed, Bud. 347, 348.
Flying, Men will hardly ever
be able to attain that Art.
218. Advantages that would
accrue from it to Men,
219. The many greater
Difadvantages, ibid. An ab
folute Impoffibility, 220.

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Gardens,Pleasure of eultivating
them,
372, 373
Gentian, its Root good for Fe-
366.
Glew of Fish, its great Uses,
302.
Gnats, fome lay their Eggs in
the Water, 156. Their
extraordinary Transformati-
ons in their three States,
157, 158. Their Trunk,
one of the greatest Won-
ders in Nature, Anatomy
of it, 158. How they wound,
ibid Ceafe to eat in the Win-
ter Season,
159.
Grillotalpa, or Mole Cricket.
Defcription of it, 159
160 Its Neft of Eggs, 160,
161. A black Animal,ą mor-
tal Enemy to the Grillotalpa,
161. Its Precaution in dig-
ging its Neft,
161, 162.
Gums, kill Plants by stopping
up all the Air Vessels, 344.
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Formiculeo, the most terrible TTAwk, How taught to fly

166.

Enemy to the. Ant.
Defcription of it, ibid. In',
ftruments, 167. In walks
backward, ibid. Its Man-

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Hawking, Defcription of that
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246, 247.

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