of a Zebu, ib.
- as taken by himfelf, viz. 5 feet 7 inches from the muzzle to the root of the tail, and 5 feet i inch circumference behind the fore legs. A bull, raeafuring in the fame way 6 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 2 inches, weighed 6oolb. VIII. 153. The Zebu then, and of courfe the Tapir, would weigh about 5001b. But one individual of every fpecies of European peculiars would probably weigh lefs than 400lb, Thefe are French meafures and weights.
[ 107 1 thefe 74 weighs more than the whole column of Europeans; and confequently this fecond table difproves the fecond member of the aflertion, that the animals peculiar to the new world are on a fmaller fcale, fo far as that aflertion relied on European animals for fupport : and it is in full oppofition to the theory which makes the animal volume to depend on the circumftances of heat and moijiure.
The third table comprehends thofe quadrupeds only which are domeftic in both countries. That fome of thefe, in fome parts of America, have become lefs than their original flock, is doubtlefs true;