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toral fins ? And, in dcfcribing the new animal upon th« fame 

 principles, fliall we call its bind feet digitated abdominal fins? 

 On the other fide, fhall we rank animals, whofe gills are exr 

 ^dly fimilar to thofe of fi(h, with lizards ? No. I think 

 thai both thefe opinions would be equally improper; and it 

 appears to mc more natural to believe that thefc animals thus 

 organifed, appertaining in a certain degree to each, fhould 

 form an intermediate and well-marked clafs between lizards 

 and fifh. And until more obfervations be made, and other 

 difcoveries of new individuals fliall enable us to form this 

 cJafs, T think it would be befl: to revive the order of meantea 

 ellablifhed by Linnaeus, and improperly fuppreffed by other 

 natural ifts. 



It remains to confider whether thefe animals are of the 

 fame, or whether they form between themfelves a diftin6l 

 genus. It is certain that in comparing them fenfible differ- 

 ences may be oljferved ; but thefe differences appear only fpe^ 

 cific, and fliould yield to the common character of having 

 three exterior fringed lobes attached to three ferrated interior 

 rays, and feet. I will call the firft, then, with Linnaeus^ 

 Siren lacertijia, and the other Siren operculata. 



XIV. A Treatije on the Cultivation of the Vine, and th^ 

 Method of making Wines, By C. Chaptal. 



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Exposure. — ^The fame climate, the fame cultivation^ 

 and the fame foil, often furnifh wines of very different quali- 

 ties. We may daily fee fome mountain, the fimunit of which 

 is entirely covered with vines, prefent in its different afpecSls 

 aftoni filing varieties in the wines they produce. Were we ta 

 judge of places by comparing the nature of their productions^ 

 we fhould be often induced to believe that every climate and 

 every kind of foil has concurred to furnifli produftior^s which, 

 in facl, are only the natural fruit of the fame lands differ- 

 ently expofed. 



This difference in the produ6ls, arifing from expofure 

 ^Icne, may be obfcrved in all the effe6ls that depend on ve- 



getatiori, 



