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before, more than three thousand, whom, by ad- 

 dress or force, Lord Exmouth had dehvered from 

 slavery. Having sent them to their respective 

 countries, and leaving a ship to receive a few who 

 had yet to come up from the interior, he sailed 

 on the 3rd of September for England. 



OSLER. 



GEOGRAPHY OF ANIMALS IN SOUTH DEVON. 



Quae minimo quidem naluralia in spatio inveniuntur terrarum, ea 

 omnia ad pernoscenda, hujusmodi rerum indagatorum perscru- 

 tantium summi et non-intermissi conatus vere postulantur. 



It might at first thought be supposed, that, by the 

 expression " Geography of Animals,'' it is intended 

 to imply a knowledge of the names of those crea- 

 tures found in any given situation, and of the limits 

 within which only they are observed : but it must be 

 recollected, that the most trivial acquaintance with 

 any animal, almost necessarily suggests an inquiry 

 as to its native country, or the locality from whence 

 it is obtained ; and further, as the general curiosity of 

 the world has been of late greatly directed towards 

 information in Natural History ; we have become 

 imperceptibly aware of a great variety of facts, illustra- 

 ting the boundaries observed in the diffusion of many 

 species. It would not, therefore, be a thankful task 

 to set about an enumeration of the countries, which 

 the best known animals inhabit, or of the probable 

 habitats of those, which have come but partially un- 

 der the notice of naturalists, although, even here, 

 perhaps more remains to be accomplished than ha,s 

 yet been done. We may consider this expression as 

 including an enumeration of the countries comprised 

 in the range of every species ; or if an animal be 

 confined to one country, of the localities or districts 

 to which it equally or unequally resorts ; as defining 

 the exact causes of these limits ; as pointing out to 



