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 of their young ones, it would be particularly o among thoe Animals who live upon nothing but Gras, becaue the Mother requires more Time to feed that Way, and is all the while obliged to neglect her Offspring, whereas the Prey of a Female Bear or Wolf is devoured in an Intant, and he has therefore, without uffering from Hunger, more Time to uckle her Litter. This Obervation is confirmed by the relative Number of Teats and young ones, which ditinguihes the carnivorous from the frugivorous Kinds, and of which I have already poken in Note (8.) If this Obervation is jut and general, a Woman's having but two Breats, and eldom bearing more than one Child at a Time, furnihes one Reaon more, and a trong one, for doubting if the Human Species is naturally carnivorous; o that to draw Mr. Locke's Concluion, it would eem requiite entirely to invert his Argument. There is as little Solidity in the ame Ditinction when applied to Birds, for who can believe the Union of Male and Female is more durable among Vultures and Ravens than among Doves. We have two Species of dometic Birds, the Duck and the Pigeon, which afford us Examples