Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C &C, Vol. 1 of 10 As the works of this Author will best Speak for themselves, we shall avoid 1111, necessary panegyric, hoping theyr will have received no material injurygin the: following translation we' shall therefore content ourselves with ob. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 10 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C.; From the French, With Notes by the Translator Of the Degeneration of Animals Nature and Pmperties of Minerals, Vegetables, 850. Light, Heat, and Fire Of Air, Water, and (flarth Experiments on the Progress of Heat in Mineral Substances A Table of the Relations 0 f difi'erent M ine ral Substances Observations on the Nature of Platina Experiments on Light, and on the Heat it can produce. Invention of Mirrors to burn at great dis tances 3 Observations and Experiments on Trees and other Vegetables On the Temperature of the Planets General Views of Nature. First View Second View. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 8 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C The Bison, 8m. 18 The Zebu d 58 The Mtg on and other Shee 59 T he Axis 7 5 The Tapir 83 The Zebra t 86 The Hippopotamus 94: The Elk and the Rein Deer 117 The Wild, Chamois, and other Goats 146 T he Saiga 17 2 The Gazelles or Antelopes 173 The Buhalus, and other Animals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 5 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C.; From the French, With Notes by the Translator Vve will begin by reducing Within its pro; per limits a subject which, at first view, appears to be immense The properties of matter which animals possess in common with inani mate beings come not within our present con sideration, and which we have already fully treated upon. For the same reason we shall reject such qualities as are found equally to belong to the vegetable and to the animal. AS in the class of animals we comprehend a num ber of animated beings, whose organization is highly different from that of man, as well as from more perfect animals, so we shall wave the consideration of them, and confine our selves to those animals which have evidently the greatest affinity to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 9 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C.; From the French; With Notes by the Translator Page The 'hlarihtni The Pinch The M z'co Account of some Ahignais not expressly treated o f in thhs Work The White Bear The Tartarian Can: The T olai The ze'm The Zemni The Pouch The Rerouasca The Souslik The Golden-coloured jioie The White water-rat The guinea-hog The pvz'ld Boar of Cape Verd The [mexican f'votf The Alco The T ayra, or Galerz' The Philander of Surinam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Buffon's Natural History, Vol. 7 of 10: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C The most general cause, as we intimated in the article of the lion, of these ambiguous terms in Natural History, arose from the necessity of giving names to the unknown productions of the New World, and thus the animals were called after such of the old continent to whom they had the smallest resemblance. From the general denomination of tiger to every animal whose skin was spotted, instead of one species of that name, we now have nine or ten, and consequently the history of these animals is exceedingly embarrassed, writers have applied to one species what ought to have been ascribed to another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.