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would carry me beyond the limits I 

 have propofed to myfelf, and perhaps 

 afford but little entertainment. Here 

 it might not be amifs to repeat, what I 

 before promifed, relative to the ftyle 

 of this Effay : Natural Hiftory, like all 

 other Sciences, has its peculiar lan- 

 guage ; and the criterion of this lan- 

 guage, like that of Nature's operations, 

 is fimplicity ; which is more particu- 

 larly necefTary in the defcription of A- 

 nimals than of Vegetables ; and to dif- 

 guife this fimplicity by foreign embel- 

 lifhments, would be as unnatural and 

 ridiculous, as to cloath an Ape in hu- 

 man apparel. 



Of Animals with an undivided hoof, 

 there are but three, viz. the Horfe, Afs, 

 and Zebra, neither of which are natu- 

 ral to Guiana, nor even to any part of 

 America : the two former have, how- 

 ever, been tranfplanted by the Spa- 



I 4 niafds, 



