“I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.”
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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
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