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Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &cBuffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

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Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c

Name: Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c
Author: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Natural history

_Barr's Buffon._

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                       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._

                           FROM THE FRENCH.

                     WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.

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                            IN TEN VOLUMES.

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                               VOL. II.

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                                London:

                      PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

              SOLD AND BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

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                                 1797.

                               CONTENTS

                                  OF

                          THE SECOND VOLUME.

                   Proof of the Theory of the Earth.

                                                            _Page_

  Article XI.    _Of Seas and Lakes_                            1

  Article XII.   _Of the Flux and Reflux_                      58

  Article XIII.  _Of the Inequalities at the Bottom of the
                   Sea, and of Currents_                       71

  Article XIV.   _Of regular Winds_                            86

  Article XV.    _Of irregular Winds, Hurricanes, and
                   other Phenomena, caused by the Agitation
                   of the Sea and Air_                        108

  Article XVI.   _Of Volcanos and Earthquakes_                133

  Article XVII.  _Of New Islands, Caverns, Perpendicular
                   Clefts, &c._                               171

  Article XVIII. _Of the Effects of Rain--of Marshes,
                   Subterraneous Wood and Water_              205

  Article XIX.   _Of the Changes of Land into Sea and Sea
                   into Land_                                 247

  _Conclusion of the Theory of the Earth_                     251

                          History of Animals.

  Chapter I.   _A comparison between Animals, Vegetables
                   and other Productions of Nature_           255

  Chapter II.  _Of Reproduction in general_                   272

  Chapter III. _Of Nutrition and Growth_                      298

  Chapter IV.  _Of the Generation of Animals_                 311

  Chapter V.   _Exposition of the Systems in Generation_      329

                               BUFFON's

                           NATURAL HISTORY.

                  _PROOF OF THE THEORY OF THE EARTH._

ARTICLE XI.

OF SEAS AND LAKES.

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