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: