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countries. He errs from mifinformation in faying 
that they are common in India. 
I will not quote gemelli care ri, to prove that 
they are not found in the Philippine Iflands, be- 
caufe that gentleman with his pen travelled 
round the world in his eafy chair, during a very 
long indifpofition and confinement * in his native 
country. 
But dampier bears witnefs that none are found 
in Mindanao|. 
nor Africa; The hot climate of Africa barely fuffers thefe 
birds to exift in that vaft continent, except under 
the care of mankind. Very few are found in 
Guinea, except in the hands of the Europeans, 
the negroes declining to breed any on account of 
the great heats §. prosper alpinus fatisfies: us, 
they are not found either in Nubia or in Egypt. 
He defcribes the Meleagrides of the ancients, and 
only proves that the Guinea hens were brought 
out of Nubia, and fold at a great price at Cairo || ; 
but is totally filent about the Turkey of the 
moderns. 
Let me in this place obferve, that the Guinea 
hens have long been imported into Britain. They 
were cultivated in our farm-yards ; for I difcover 
in 1277, in the Grainge of Clifton, in the 
* Sir james porter’s Obf. Turkey, I. 1. 321. 
J barbot in churchill’s Coll. V. 29, 
§ bosman, 229. 
)1 Hift. Nat. iEgypti, I. 201, 
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