BOOK IV.

Of Animals in general.

In the last Book, having survey’d the Earth it self in Particular, I shall next take a View of the Inhabitants thereof; or the several Kinds of Creatures[a], that have their Habitation, Growth, or Subsistence thereon.

These Creatures are either Sensitive, or Insensitive Creatures.

In speaking of those endow’d with Sense, I shall consider:

I. Some Things common to them all.

II. Things peculiar to their Tribes.

I. The Things in common, which I intend to take Notice of, are these Ten: