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Title: The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports
Year: 1830 (1830s)
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Subjects: Zoology Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, John Doughty
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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ose, theduck, the peacock, the pigeon, and the guinea-fowl. Asthese were often taken suddenly from the temperate tovery hot regions, they were not reared at first withoutmuch difiiculty: but after a few generations they becamefamiliarized to the climate, which, in many cases, ap-proached much nearer than that of Europe to the tempera-ture of their original native countries. The fact of so many millions of wild and tame individualsof our domestic species, almost all of them the largest quad-rupeds and birds, having been propagated throughout thenew continent within the short period that has elapsedsince the discovery of America, while no appreciable im-provement can have been made in the productive powersof that vast continent, affords abundant evidence of theextraordinary changes which accompany the diffusion andprogressive advancement of the human race over the globe.That it should have remained for us to witness such mightyrevolutions is a proof, even if there was no other evidence.
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AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 85 that the entrance of man into the planet is, comparativelyspeaking, of extremely modern date, and that the effects ofhis agency are only beginning to be felt. A modern writer has estimated, that there are in Ame-rica upwards of four millions square miles of useful soil,each capable of supporting two hundred persons; andnearly six million, each mile capable of supporting fourhundred and ninety persons. If this conjecture be true,it will follow, as that author observes, that if the naturalresources of America were fully developed, it would affordsustenance to five times as great a number of inhabitantsas the entire mass of human beings existing at present uponthe globe. The new continent, he thinks, though lessthan half the size of the old, contains an equal quantity ofuseful soil, and much more than an equal amount of produc-tive power. Be this as it may, we may safely conclude thattheamount of human population nowexisting, constitutes buta small proportio

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