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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



to be found in the various tribes which abound in 

 every country in the world, and differ from each 

 other more in their habits and dispositions than in 

 their exterior form and appearance, which in all of 

 them seem to be equally deformed and disgusting. 

 But we should not from hence conclude that imper- 

 fection and deformity are always in uniform analogy 

 with the notions we have pre-conceived of what is 

 fair and beautiful. Amidst the infinite productions 

 of Creative Power, variety of form, difference of 

 faculties, and degrees of utility, are eminently ob- 

 servable: composing one general plan, in which 

 wisdom, order, and fitness, are displayed through 

 all its parts. 



