Excerpt from An History of the Earth, Vol. 2 of 4: And Animated Nature As the food of ruminant animals is entirely of the vegetable kind, and as this is very eafily procured, fo thefe animals feem naturally more indolent and lefs artful than thofe of the car nivorous kinds; and as their appetites are more fimpie, their infiinfls feem to be lefs capable of variation. The fox or the wolf are for ever prowling their long habits of want give them a degree of {harpnefs and cunning; their life is a continued fcene of firatagem and efcape but the patient ox, or the deer, enjoy the repaft that nature has abundantly provided; certain of fubfifience, and content with fecurity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.