cultivated, and as the Inhabitants, become more induſtrious, conſume its Productions of every Kind in greater Quantities. My third and moſt important Remark is, that the Fruits of Trees afford Animals a more plentiful Nouriſhment 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 ſowed with Wheat, and the other planted with Cheſnut Trees.
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(5.) Among Quadrupeds, the two moſt univerſal Diſtinctions of the carnivorous Tribes are deduced, one from the Figure of the Teeth, and the other from the Conformation of the Inteſtines. The Animals, who live upon Vegetables, have all of them blunt Teeth, like the Horſe, the Ox, the Sheep, the Hare; but the carnivorous Animals have them ſharp, like the Cat, the Dog, the Wolf, the Fox. And as to the Inteſtines, the frugivorous have ſome, ſuch as the Colon, which are not to be found in the carnivorous Animals. It ſeems, there-
