ASIATIC HEDGEHOG. 
Hedgehog," says he, which Seba savswas 
sent to him from Ambovna, has so strong a 
resemblance to the Tendrac, that it must be 
the same animal ; and, if it be a native of 
Madagascar, it ought not to be found in Ame- 
rica. With regard to this animal, Scba is 
wrong in every article ; for it. neither belongs 
to America, nor is it white, but only less brown 
than our European Hedgehog.'* 
In these reflections on Seba, what reader 
docs not recognize the prejudice of BufFon, 
who considers this author as a formidable ene- 
my of his favourite system respeding the con- 
stant difFerenccs between the animals of the 
old and the new worlds ? A\'hether the charge 
against Seba be true, or false, the mode of 
reasoning which Buffon has on this occasion 
adopted, is palpably fallacious, and altogether 
unworthy of that great man ! 
From a comparison of wliat is said bv Buf- 
fon, on the subject of our Asiatic Hedgehog, 
with the description of Pennant, will sulhci- 
cntly appear, as we apprehend, the foundation 
on which we have asseried, that much impcr- 
fc^Ion seems manifestly to prevail In the ac- 
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