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 | | Though they had become domestic in Peru, and, of course, had been spread over the adjacent countries; yet, instead of multiplying in the place of the nativity, their number has diminished since the European cattle, which have succeeded wonderfully in all the southern regions of America, were transported thither. |
 | | The immense territories of the New World contained not, upon its first discovery, a greater number of inhabitants than what are to be found in one half of Europe. |
 | | All those animals which, from their nature, cannot endure cold climates, and even those which, though they could subsist, cannot produce in such climates, are confined, on two or three sides, by seas, which they are unable to traverse, and, on the other, by countries so cold, that they cannot live in them. |
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