X PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



That tliis little volume may tend to awaken 

 a taste for similar pursuits in some who have 

 hitherto passed unobservant along the shores and 

 through the woods of this interesting county, 

 and perhaps serve to assist in the diffusion of 

 those humane and enlightened views so ably 

 advocated by Mr. Waterton in his "Essays on 

 Natural History/" is the sincere wish of 



THE AUTHOR 



