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 cultivated, and as the Inhabitants, become more indutrious, conume its Productions of every Kind in greater Quantities. My third and mot important Remark is, that the Fruits of Trees afford Animals a more plentiful Nourihment than they can expect from other Vegetables. This I know by my own Experience, having compared the Produce of two Pieces of Land of equal Area and Quality, one owed with Wheat, and the other planted with Chenut Trees.

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(5.) Among Quadrupeds, the two mot univeral Ditinctions of the carnivorous Tribes are deduced, one from the Figure of the Teeth, and the other from the Conformation of the Intetines. The Animals, who live upon Vegetables, have all of them blunt Teeth, like the Hore, the Ox, the Sheep, the Hare; but the carnivorous Animals have them harp, like the Cat, the Dog, the Wolf, the Fox. And as to the Intetines, the frugivorous have ome, uch as the Colon, which are not to be found in the carnivorous Animals. It eems,