I have not inferted in the first table the phoca* nor leather-winged bat, because the one living half the year in the water, and the other being a winged animal, the individuals of each species may visit both continents.

Of the animals in the 1ft table, Monf. de Buffon himself informs us, [XXVII. 130. XXX. 213.] that the beaver, the otter, and fhrew moufe, though of the fame fpecies, are larger in America than Europe. This fhould therefore have corrected the generality of his expreffions XVIII. 145. and elsewhere, that the animals common to the two countries, are confiderably lefs, in America than in Europe, and cela fans aucune exception.' He tells us, too, [Quadrup. VIII. 334. edit. Paris, 1777] that on examining a bear from America, he remarked no difference, dans la forme de cet ours d'Amerique comparé a celui d' Europe; but adds from Bartram's journal, that an American bear weighed 400tb. English, equal to 367 lb. French: whereas we find the European bear examined by Monf. D'Aubenton, [XVII. 82.] weighed but 141b. French. That the palmated elk is larg er in America than Europe we are informed by Kalm,† a naturalift who visited the former by public appointment,

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It is faid, that this animal is feldom feen above 30 miles from fore, or beyond the 56th degree of latitude. The interjacent iflands between Afia and America admit his paffing from one continent to the other without exceeding thefe bounds. And in fact, travellers tell us >that these islands are places of principal refort for them, and especially in the feason of bringing forth their young.

. 233. Lon. 1772.