Buffons Natural History, CONTAINING A THEORY OF THE EARTH, A GENERAL HISTORY OF MAN, OF THE BRUTE CREATION, AND OF FROM THE FRENCH. WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR. IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. V. London: PRINTED FOR H. D. SYMONDS, AND SOLD BY SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES PATERNOSTER ROW. 1811. 218, Fig. 20, 21. 243, Fig. 22, 23. 263, Fig. 24, 25. 272, Fig. 26, 27. 290, Fig. 28, 29. 320, Fig. 30, 31. 321, Fig. 32, 33, 34, 35. 322, Fig. 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41. S23, Fig. 42, 43. 353, Fig. 44, 45. i - 334, Fig. 46, 47. 335, Fig. 48, 49. BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. HISTORY OF THE BRUTE CREATION. CHAPTER I. OF THE NATURE OF ANIMALS.` As we can judge only in proportion as we compare, and as all our knowledge turns upon the relations by which one object differs from another, if there existed no brute animals, the nature of the human beings would be still more incomprehensible. Having considered man in himself, ought we not to derive every assistance, by comparing him with the other parts of the animal creation? We will proceed .then VOL. V. B |