Buffon's Natural History, Volume III (of 10), by Buffon 45639 [Author: Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon] [Subtitle: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c.] [Tr.: James Smith Barr] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/5/6/3/45639 ] [Files: 45639.txt; 45639-8.txt; 45639-h.htm; ] [Clearance: 20110415042725buffon] E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Tom Cosmas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Thanks, Joe Loewenstein