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as the fubjecl: of the work he has undertaken is fo vail 

 and fo various, it is not wonderful that he has fometimes 

 erred, or forgot what he has written with refpe& to A- 

 merica, where nature is fo inexhauftible ; the miftakes, 

 therefore, or proofs we may adduce of his errors, can 

 have no influence on the reputation of one fo defervedly 

 refpecled by the learned world. 



In the quotations of the Hiftory of Quadrupeds of 

 count de BuiFon, we made ufe of the Paris edition, in 

 thirty-one volumes, twelves, concluded in the year 1768. 

 In thofe of the work of M. de P. we have ufed the Lon- 

 don edition of 1771, in three volumes, including the 

 anfwer made him by Don Pernety, and reply of M. dc 

 Paw. 



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