Useful Knowledge: Volume 3. Animals: Or, a familiar account of the various productions of natureBingley, William
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Useful Knowledge: Volume 3. Animals: Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature
Bingley, William
Commercial products; Natural history; Zoology -- Popular works
G.
Gallina, description and use of, and particulars respecting, 154
Galloways, 103
Gannet, 178
Gar-fish, or gore-fish, description and uses of, 215
Garum, pickle so called, of what made, 205
Genet, description and uses of, 42
Ghee, what it is, and how made, 100
Gilse, description and uses of, 209
Glama, description and uses of, 69
Glue, of what and how made, 59
Glutton, description of, and uses of skin and flesh, 53
Gluts, 186
Goat, common, uses of milk, flesh, skin, hair, horns, and fat, 83
----, Angora, description and uses of, 86
Goldfinch, 137
Gold-beater's skin, what it is, and use of, 96
Goose, wild, description and use of, 172
----, tame, use of quills, feathers, &c., 172
Grayling, description of, how caught and use of, 213
Greyhound, uses of, 30
Grigs, 186
Grous, red, particulars respecting, 155
----, black, how caught and uses of, 155
----, wood, description and uses of, 157
Grugru, description and use of, 230
Guana, description of, how caught, and uses of flesh and eggs, 184
Gudgeon, 223
Guinea-fowls, description, &c. of, 154
Gurnards, 208
H.
Haddock, description of, how caught, and use of, 191
Hair, human, uses of, and how prepared, 11
Hams, how cured, 110
Hare, common description and uses of, 61
----, Alpine, 63
Hartshorn, from what prepared, and uses of, 78
----, shavings and jelly, 78
Hedge-hog, description and habits of, 56
----, flesh and skin, uses of, 57
Heron, common, description and use of, 163
Herring, description of, and account of fishery, 216
----, how cured, and uses of, 218
Hippopotamus, description of, and uses of tusks, hide, flesh, feet, and
tongue, 108
Hog, uses of flesh, fat, blood, feet, tongue, skin, bristles, &c., 109
Holibut, description of, and uses of flesh, skin, liver, &c., 198
Honey, description and uses of, 238
Hooper, description of, and uses of flesh, eggs, skin, &c., 171
Horn, how prepared, and uses of, 95
Horses, uses of, 101
----, race, hunter, hackney, 102
----, dray, draught, Scots, Irish, French, Dutch, Flemish, German,
Hungarian, 103
----, Danish, Spanish, Italian, 104
----, uses of flesh, milk, and skin, 104, 105
Horse-hair, uses of, 105
Hound, description and uses of, 38
House-lamb, 89
I.
Ichneumon, description and use of, 39
Indian ink, of what made, 244
Isinglass, of what and how made, 225
Ivory, what it is, importation, value, and uses of, 20
K.
Kid skins, uses of, 84
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