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errors to others who are ftill more obfequiou^.. 
Thus fentence is paffed upon nature in a gar- 
ret, becaufe axioms admit of no reply, and 
becaufe, with refpedt to obferYations, it is cafier 
to believe than to examine. 
For my part, I muft repeat again and again, 
that I have feen with my own eyes ; and the 
moft eloquent periods, the moft fplendid dif- 
courfes, will never perfuade me out of their 
teftlmony. 
Yes ; I have beheld in the deferts of Africa 
numerous acquifitions that might be made, 
which would increafe our enjoyments, and di- 
minlfli our labours. Nay more, I am perfuaded 
it would be eafy for us to appropriate to our 
ufe the largeft quadrupeds, as the buffalo the 
kana, the pafan, the koedoe, the bubel, and 
the tzelran. How greatly would the little 
antelopes thrive in our fouthern provinces ! 
And there are even certain kinds of fowls with 
which w^e might flock our poultry yards. In 
Holland, to our fhame be it fpoken, in Hol- 
■* With refpeifl to this animal, the vafl: burdens drawn 
by it every day on the banks of the Tiber rnfwer every 
objection ; and the African buffalo is a ipecies far fupe- 
rior in ftrength to that of Italy. ' 
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