jiVi PREFACE. 



where they are to be found, the planb 

 they feed upon, their transformations, cited 

 the authors who have treated on them, given 

 them claflical, generical, and trivial or fpe- 

 cifical names 5 has done the fame by birds, 

 fifhes, and all other known animals j haS 

 ranged all the foffils, minerals and ftones, 

 to ufe his language, in a manner partly bor- 

 rowed, and partly founded on his own ob- 

 fervations. But what improvements and 

 additions he has lately made to this part of 

 natural hiflory, as well as that of plants, we 

 cannot fay till the other part of his new edi- 

 tion of the Syflem of nature comes out, 

 which is expecSed daily. However what 

 we fee he has done in relation to animals, 

 leaves us no room to doubt but that it will 

 all together be the moft extraordinary book 

 that was ever publifhed in this or almoft 

 any other way. 



Befides his writings, of which i have 

 mentioned but a fmall part, this inde- 

 fatigable man, born to be nature's hiftorian, 

 has travelled over Lapland, all Sweden, 

 part of Norway, Denmark, Germany, 

 I Holland, 



