P [ i°6 ] therefore by its Algonquin name, Whabus, to keep it diftinft from thefe. Kalm is of the fame opinion*. I have enumerated the fquirrels according to our own know- ledge, derived from daily fight of them, becaufe I am not able to reconcile with that the European appellations and def- criptions. I have heard of other fpecies but they have never come wathin my own notice. Thefe, I think, are the only in- ftances in which I have departed from the authority of Monf. de Buffon in the con- ftruftion of this table. I take him for my ground work, becaufe I think him the beft informed of any naturalifl: who has ever written. The refult is, that there are i8 quadrupeds peculiar to Europe;
more than four times as many, to wit 74, pecuhar to America; that thef firft of * Kalm II. 340, I. 82.
f T he Tapir is the largeft of the animals peculiar to America. I colleft his weight thus. Monf. de BufFon fays, XXIII. 274, that he is of the iize of a Zi(ebu, or a fmall cow. He gives us the meafures