Russian glass, Muscovy glass, Isinglass, Vitrum ruthenicum, Vitrum Mariæ. Forster’s Introd. to Mineralogy, p. 18. [↑]
[13] Marmor rude, Linn. Syst. nat. 3. p. 41.
Calcareus particulis scintillantibus. Wall. Min. p. 39.
Calcareus scintillans, glittering limestone. Forster’s Introd. to Mineral. p. 9. [↑]
[14] This has been confirmed, since Cape Breton is in the hands of the English, and it is reported that the strata of coals run through the whole isle, and some basset out to day near the sea-shore, so that this isle will afford immense treasures of coals, when the government will find it convenient, to have them dug for the benefit of the Nation. F. [↑]
[15] The English reader, who is perhaps not so well acquainted with the weather of the Swedish autumn, may form an idea of it, by having recourse to the Calendarium Floræ, or the botanical and œconomical almanack of Sweden, in Dr. Linnæus’s Amœn. Academ. and in Mr. Stillingfleet’s Swedish tracts, translated from the Amœn. Acad. 2d. edition. F. [↑]
[16] Vide Hackluyt’s collect. voy. III. 246. [↑]
[17] Vide Medical, &c. cases and experiments, translated from the Swedish, London 1758. p. 282. P. [↑]
[18] This has all the appearance of a vulgar error: neither does the succeeding account of the American bears being carnivorous, agree with the observations of the most judicious travellers, who deny the fact. P.
But however it might be easible to reconcile both opinions. For Europe has two or three kinds of bears, one species of which is carnivorous, the other lives only on vegetables: the large brown species, with its small variety, are reputed to be carnivorous, the black species is merely phytivorous. In case therefore both species are found in North America, it would be very easy to account for their being both carnivorous and not. F. [↑]