circumflance, by thofe who have raifed male Canary 

 birds [d\ 



Monf. de BufFon's expreffion is, " J'ai fait elever 

 sc des hafes avec des lapins," which at rirft feems to 

 imply that he had reared them from their earlieft 

 infancy. 



Upon confulting however the dictionary of Tre- 

 voux, the compilers inform us the word Elever [e] 

 often fignifies the feeding and keeping an animal, 

 without refpect to its age -, and they cite its being ap- 

 plied to elephants in Europe, which it is believed 

 never bred in that quarter of the globe. 



But the beft expoiitor of the fenfe in which an au- 

 thor ufes a word is in other parts of the fame work. 



In the fifth Vol. of his Natural Hiftory, p. 210. 

 Monf. de Buffon gives an account of his making 

 the fame fort of experiment between the Wolf and 

 a Dog, in the following words : 



" J'ai fait elever une louve prife dans Ies bois, 

 " de deux ou trois mois." 



In this paffage, the word is applied to a wolf, of 

 three months old, and to mew that Monf. de Buf* 

 fon did not think the age at which the animal is 

 confined to be material in fuch an experiment, he 

 immediately afterwards ftates, that he caught fome 



[/] Birds which differ fpecifically fcarcely ever breed ex- 

 cept both are taken early from the neft, and particulerly the. 

 hen j I have procured a breed- from two robins in a cage the 

 prefcnt year by attending to this citcumltance, and I believe I 

 could equally fucceed with almoft any other kind of birds, as 

 When they are thus reared, they have not the leaft awe of man. 



[>] " Elever fignifie, Nourrir auffi, ibit plante, foit animal, 

 « & en avoir jhin" 



* s On a de ia peine a iltver da depham en Europe." 



foxes 



