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Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &cBuffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

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Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c

Name: Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
Author: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Natural history

_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. VIII.

                                London:
                      PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
              AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

                                 1807.

                     Gillet, Printer, Wild-court.




                               CONTENTS
                                  OF
                          THE EIGHTH VOLUME.




                        Of Carnivorous Animals.


                                                                 _Page_

  _The Camel and the Dromedary_                                     1
  _The Buffalo, the Bonasus, the Aurochs, the Bison, &c._          18
  _The Zebu_                                                       58
  _The Muflon and other Sheep_                                     59
  _The Axis_                                                       75
  _The Tapir_                                                      83
  _The Zebra_                                                      86
  _The Hippopotamus_                                               94
  _The Elk and the Rein-Deer_                                     117
  _The Wild, Chamois, and other Goats_                            146
  _The Saiga_                                                     172
  _The Gazelles or Antelopes_                                     173
  _The Bubalus, and other Animals which have an affinity to the
    Gazelles and Goats_                                           204
  _The Condoma_                                                   207
  _The Guib_                                                      211
  _The Grim_                                                      212
  _The Chevrotains_                                               216
  _The Mazames_                                                   221
  _The Coudous_                                                   227
  _The Musk_                                                      231
  _The Babiroussa_                                                238
  _The Cabiai_                                                    242
  _The Porcupine_                                                 246
  _The Coendou_                                                   251
  _The Urson_                                                     256
  _The Tanred and the Tendrac_                                    259

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Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c

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