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' horns.' M. de Buffon fuppofes, that M. Adan- 

 fon means to defcrlbe the babh-oufl"a; and, were 

 it not for his authority, I fhould have been led 

 to believe, that M. Adanfon intended to point 

 out our African boar ; for, if he had the babi- 

 roulfa under his infpedion, I cannot compre- 

 hend how he fhould remark, that it had never 

 been mentioned by any Naturalilt. He is too 

 much converfant in Natural Hiftory, not to know 

 that the babirouffa has been often defcribed, and 

 that its head is found in almotl every Mufaeuin. 

 in Europe. 



But in Africa there is, perhaps, another fpe- 

 cies of wild boar, with which we are ftil! unac- 

 quainted, and was the aninr-al feen by M. Adan- 

 fon. This conjecture is fupported by the de- 

 fcription which M. Daubenton has giv^n of a 

 part of the jaws of a Cape Verd wild boar. His 

 remarks clearly prove, that it differs from cur 

 boars, and would apply direftly to the one un- 

 der confideration, if there had not been cutting 

 teeth in each of thefe jaws. 



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I willingly afleut to moft of M. Allamand's 

 refledions. But I perfift in believing, as he 

 hlmfelf at firft believed, that the Cape Verd boar 

 which I mentioned, and the jaws delcribed by 

 M. Daubenton, belong to the fame fpecies, tho' 



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