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noticed; but fuch was his irritability, that, in the firft volume 
of his Hiftoire Naturelle des Oifeaux, he fell on me moft unmer- 
cifully, but happily often without reafon, He probably relented, 
for in the following volumes he frequently made ufe of my au- 
thority, which fully atoned for a hafty and mifguided fit of paf- 
fion. I did not with to quarrel with a gentleman I truly ef- 
teemed, yet, unwilling to remain quite paffive, in my Index to 
his admirable works, and the Planches Enluminées, 1 did venture 
to repel his principal charge, and, con amore, to retaliate on my 
illuftrious affailant. Our blows were light, andI hope that nei- 
ther of us felt any material injury. F 
I must blame the Comée for fuppreffing his acknowlegement 
of feveral communications cf animals which I fent to him for 
the illuftration of his Hifoire Naturelle. One was his Conguar Noir, 
Suppl. ii. 223. tab. Ixii; my Feguar or Black Tiger, Hilt. Quadr.t. 
N°’ 1go. Another was the drawing of his J/atis, Suppl. iii. 
tab. xvii. which he attributes to good Peter Collinfon. The. third 
was his Chacal Adive of the fame work, p. 112. tab. xvi; and 
my Barbary Fox, Hitt. Quadr. 1. N° 171, of which! furnithed 
him with the defigns. Thefe are no great matters: I lament 
them only as {mall defects in a great character. 
I took the ufual road to Lyon, excepting a {mall digreffion in 
Burgundy, in compliance with the friendly invitation of the 
Comte, to pafs a few days with him in his feat at Monbard. His 
' houfe was built at the foot of a hill crowned with a ruined 
caftle: he had converted the caftle-yard into a garden, and 
fitted up one of the towers into a ftudy. ‘Yo that place he re- 
tired every morning, about feven o’clock, to compofe his ex- 
cellent works, free from all interruption. He continued there 
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At Monsarp, 
