NORTHERN PENGUIN. 
the stru6^:ure, as well as by the distance of the 
climates.** 
BufFon then proceeds to prove this position, 
by an elaborate and minute comparison of the 
relations of voyagers, and by an examination 
of the passages in which his Manchots are 
mentioned under the name of Penguins. All 
the navigators of the South Sea, he contends, 
from Narborough to Admiral Anson, as well 
as Commodore Byron, M. De Bougainville, 
Cook, and Forster, agree in ascribing to these 
Manchots the same chara6lers, and all diffe- 
rent from those of the Ar6lic Penguins. The 
Manchot occurs, not only in all the Southern 
Tra(St of the Great Pacific Ocean, and on all 
the islands scattered in it ; but, also, in those 
of the Atlantic ; and, it would appear, at lower 
latitudes. There are vast flocks of them near 
the Cape of Good Hope, and even farther 
North. They must have advanced into the 
Indian Seas, if Pyrard is exa6l in placing 
them in the Atallons of the Maldives, and if 
Sonnerat really found them in New Guinea, 
But, these places excepted,** observes Buffon, 
we m.ay say, with Forster, that the' Tropic, 
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