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be Its natural colour. I kept it a year, and it 

 was living when I was writing this, almoft 

 in fight of the coaft of France, but in fpite of 

 the continual precautions I took to preferve 

 it from the cold, the feverity of the weather 

 killed it." 



I once had an opportunity of feeing, in the 

 houfe of the late Duke of Richmond, at White- 

 hall, an old (he Monkey, who had been brought 

 to England with young : and fhe brought forth 

 a fmgle cub, of which flie was very tender. It 

 was pleafant to fee her hold it in her arms, and 

 fuckle it. Her a6tions and manner nearly re- 

 fembled a woman's nurfmg her child. This 

 fort of Monkey being pretty frequently brought 

 into moft of the maritime trading parts of Eu- 

 rope, it has probably been defcribed by fome 

 former naturalift. 



The Bat. 



Monfieur de la Condamine, in his voyage 

 down the river of Amazons, fays the Bats which 



fuck 



