Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology / By Charles Waterton, with a continuation of the autobiography of the author.

  • Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology / By Charles Waterton, with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    INDEX Abb£ Raynal on Atlantis, 146 Abylae, 146 Accident on Mount Cenis, 42 out shooting, 44 Waterton’s fatal, 13 X Acorns food for birds, 172, 317 Acosta, 191 Acquaintance of Waterton with Swain- son, 518 Ackroyd, Nanny, 378 Act of throwing, 153 Actseon, 443 Action’s hounds, 217 Acts against Roman Catholics, 7 Adaption of structure to habits, 173 Adder, 427 Advantages of fox-hunting over horse- racing, 222 Adventure at Antigua, 42 ... at Cadiz, 23 ... at St Peter’s, 44 ... at the Castle of St Angelo, 44 first, on water, 15 fox-hunting, 21 ... in Orinoque, 34 in railway carriage, 576 ... on way to Rome, 80 ... sleep-walking, 17 ... with alligator, 55 with Dutch officers, 138 ... with snake, 442 “Adventures in West Africa,” 5S2 Advice of Sir Joseph Banks, 31 ASson, story of, 289 Age of the raven, 288 Agincourt, a Waterton at, 4 Ague, 32 Aix-la-Chapelle, 77 Aix-la-Chapelle, Chaffinches at, 338 Owls at, 284 Alameda at Angustura, 426 ... at Malaga, 27 Alexander, Captain, 44 Algebrista, 113 Algesiras, 24 Alhaurin, 248 Alicante, 36 Alligator, capture of, 53 and vultures, 259 Alva’s, Duchess of, gifts, 29 Amiens, peace of, 22 Ancestors, Waterton’s, 4 Andalusia, birds of, 23, 248 Anecdote of a fox-hunt, 219 of hares, 242 ... showing the necessity of cau tion as to hearsay evi dence, 148 “Angel Inn,” 547 Angustura, 35 Cayman at, 246 ... Vultures at, 425 Ant-bear, 173 Ape, 139 Ape’s hill in Barbary, 145 Apes at Gibraltar, 24 ... on the Gambia, 160 Ardsley, collier of, 210 Aristocracy, the English, 563 Armstrong, Mr, 100 Arms, Waterton’s, 3 Arsenical soap, evil of, 595 Arthur, King, 288 Ash, 507 ... Owl’s nest in, 280 “ Ass, the dead,” 611 Aztecs, paper on the, 603