Cats
Ears, which the Chinese Ladies are very fond of." This was later translated back into French
by abbé Prevôt as "among the animals one finds a singular species of long-haired cats with
hanging ears, which the Chinese ladies greatly liked."
In volume 4 of his "Histoire Naturelle" (?1767), Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,
wrote "The Natural History of The Cat". Buffon noticed that, unlike the many breeds of dog,
there were few distinct races of domestic cat: Spanish, Syrian and Khorasan (Persian). He
believed the long-haired lop-eared Chinese cat could be a fourth distinct type. "They (cats)
are in nature much more constant, and their domesticity is not as complete nor as universal
as that of the dog, so it is not surprising they are less varied in type. Our domestic cats,
though different from each other in colour, do not form distinct and separate races. Only the
climates of Spain, Syria or Chorazan (Persia) have produced constant varieties; to find
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