Note J — Front matter (continued 2)

We were at first inclined to combat this position of our learned author, with those reasons, founded upon facts, which may be adduced against it; but he has himself so completely replied to it at the end of his dissertation upon wild animals, page 26 of this volume, that any thing further than repeating his own observation must be unnecessary; for he there says, that, “in process of time, we may reasonably suppose the surface of the earth will be equally inhabited,” which is surely impossible without considerable increase.