Volume 5

Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 300 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations. By William Smellie.

  • Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 300 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations. By William Smellie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftinguifhing character of the opoflums. But I fill maintain, that, if the cufos of the Eaft Indies has this character, it is certainly a fpecies which approaches very near to the American opoflums ; and I fhall be inclined to think that manner as the jaguar differs trom the leopard, Of all the animals belonging to the fouthern climates of both Continents, the two laft, with- out being of the fame fpecies, make the neareft approach to each other.