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most serviceable to man, are the most 

 prolific : while the strong and rapacious 

 kinds are marked with sterility. 



Birds are in all countries, longer lived 

 than the brute creation ; the Linnet will 

 often live fourteen or fifteen years ; the 

 Bullfinch tw.enty ; the Goose fourscore ; 

 while Swans, Eagles, and some others, 

 have been known to live two, or even three 

 hundred years. 



The number of species of Birds, which 

 mankind has rendered domestic, are but 

 few, as the Peacock, Turkey, common 

 Hen, Guinea-Hen, Pigeon, Swan, Goose, 

 Duck, and Guinea-Duck, being only nine, 

 while the number of all the species known 

 exceed fifteen hundred. 



III. Amphibious animals are all those 

 who are capable of living either on land 

 or in the water. They are furnished with 

 lungs and air bladders, adequate to this 

 purpose. Such are the Frog, Castor^ 

 Otter, Tortoise, Sea-Galf, Alligator, &c* 



Numbers of insects, particularly of the 

 Fly kind, appear to be amphibious ; Gnats 

 always drop their eggs in water, where 

 the young are hatched, and live after the 

 manner of fishes ; till at length they un~ 



