278 THE TAPETI, &c. 



The preceding notices, though compofed of 

 twenty- one articles, contain not above nine or 

 ten diftinft fpecies ; for all the others are only- 

 varieties. The white bear is only a variety of 

 the common kind ; the Tartarian cow, of the 

 bifon ; the Giiiney and Cape- Verd hogs, of the 

 common hog, &c. Hence, by adding thefe 

 ten fpecies to about one hundred and eighty, 

 whofe hillory we have given, the total number 

 of quadrupeds, the exiflence of which is pro- 

 perly afcertained, exceeds not two hundred 

 fpecies upon the furface of the whole known 

 world. 



ADDITIONS. 



