. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . Aa3 374 HISTORY OF THE RABBIT. {^Lepus CuniciJuSy Lin.—Le Lapin, BufF.) Notwithstanding the great fimilarity between theHare and the Rabbit, Nature has placed an infeparablebar between them, in not allowing them to intermix, towhich they mutually difcover the molt extreme this, there is a wide difference in their habits andpropenfities: The Rabbit lives in holes in the earth,where it brings forth its young, and retires from the ap-proach of danger; whilft the Hare prefers the openfields, and trufts
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . Aa3 374 HISTORY OF THE RABBIT. {^Lepus CuniciJuSy Lin.—Le Lapin, BufF.) Notwithstanding the great fimilarity between theHare and the Rabbit, Nature has placed an infeparablebar between them, in not allowing them to intermix, towhich they mutually difcover the molt extreme this, there is a wide difference in their habits andpropenfities: The Rabbit lives in holes in the earth,where it brings forth its young, and retires from the ap-proach of danger; whilft the Hare prefers the openfields, and trufts to its fpeed for fafety. The fecundity of the Rabbit is truly aftonifliing. Itbreeds feven times in the yfear, and generally produceseight young at a time ; from which it is calculated, thatone pair may increafe, in the courfe of four years, to theamazing number of 1,274,840 : So that, if frequent re-du£tions were not made in various ways, there is reafonto apprehend they would foon exceed the means of theirfupport, and over-run the face of the country. But astheir increafe is great, fo is
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