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stellen, even if one could place them. 7. ja . . . , though it be but a short 

 time after birth. 8. die . . . lassen, all of -which, we know, can be tamed to 

 a certain degree. 9. gross zu ziehen, to bring up. 10. musste . . . aus- 

 sterben, would have to die out at once. u. so . . ., although the phenomena 

 previously observed in them are so very remarkable. 12. so zwar, dass, so 

 much indeed, that. 13. aus, from. 14. als . . . , as if a development in such 

 a direction could not possibly be called an advance. 1 5. gesprochen werden 

 soil, one is to speak. 16. ware . . . schlechter, if it were only a very little 

 worse. 17. aus . . . h.ersLb,frotn a height. 18. fiigt . . . hinzu, new pos- 

 session is added to the old. 19. also . . . , only incompletely through 

 periods. 



