BRITISH SETTLEMENT


 CHAP. VII

 Natural history continued. Quadrupeds.

M ANY of the animals found at Hon-
duras tare such as are common to the con-
tinent of America generally. A very con-
siderable variety, however, will' only be
recognized as the inhabitants of the
warmer latitudes of it.
 It is believed that few, if any, of the
domestic kind of quadrupeds which are
familiarly known in Europe, can be trac-
ed as the natives of this quarter of the
world. But the supposition rather is,
that the greater number of this descrip-
tion have become naturalized to it, from
having been introduced by the early Euro-
pean settlers.
 It would be entirely foreign to the end
in view to particularize the number and