Transcriber Note Text emphasis is displayed as _Italic Text._ _Barr's Buffon._ ======== 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. IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. V. ============== London: PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. ------ 1807. T. Gillet, Printer, Wild-Court. CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME History of the Brute Creation. _Page_ Chap. I. _Of the Nature of Animals._ 1 Chap. II. _Of Domestic Animals._ 88 _The Horse_ 93 _The Ass_ 179 _The Ox_ 206 _The Sheep_ 243 _The Goat_ 264 _The Swine, the Hog of Siam, and the Wild Boar_ 278 _The Dog_ 302 _Directions for placing the Plates._ Page 93, Fig. 18, 19. 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. 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41. 323, Fig. 42, 43. 333, Fig. 44, 45. 334, Fig. 46, 47. 335, Fig. 48, 49. BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. _HISTORY OF THE BRUTE CREATION._ CHAPTER I. Of THE NATURE OF ANIMALS.