PREFACE. PREFACE. 



WHEN we confider the TT < 

 flation of animals which ■ 

 inh;-ihif the Ae.e.n. ■we ^ i ™' 



'HEN we confider the f ORSQU'ON confidere la fi- 



tuation des animaux qui 



inhabit the deep, we -A-^ habitent les mers, il n'y a 



need not wonder that this part of pas a s'etonner que cette partie de 



nature has not been thoroughly la Nature n'ait pas ete fuffifamment 



illuftrated. Innumerable figures mife au jour. On a corredlement 



of their habitations have been cor- trace grand nombre de figures qui 



redly delineated, but many of the reprcfentent leurs demeures, tandis 



inhabitants are not fufliciently que les habitans n'en font, pas 



known. By this it may appear, afiTez connus. D'ou I'on pourroit 



that our naturalifls have been conclurre que nos phificiens ont 



greater painters than philofophers ; ete plus peintres que philofophes, 



fave the inimitable Argenville, hormis 1' inimitable Argenville, 



whofe knowledge and labour adorn dont le favoir et les travaux font 



the age and country which gave Tornement da fiecle et du pays qui 



him birth. The immortal Lin- I'ont vu naitre. L'immortel Linne 



naeus, with infinite judgement, has a le plus judicieufement du monde 



exhibited an arrangement of the fait un arrangement des animaux 



teftaceous animals, not only gene- teftaces qui efl non feulement ge- 



rically analogous to the animals neriquement analogue aux animaux 



themfelves, but has preferved the memes, mais par lequel il a audi 



diftindlive charaders of their habi- conferve les caradteres diftindlifs de 



tations likewife, which is certain- leurs demeures, ce qui eft fans con- 



ly the moft fcientific method i and tredit la methode la plus fcienti- 



though certain perfons have taken the fique. Et quoique certaines gens 



liberty to criticize the works of this fe foient donne la liberie de criti- 



wonderful man, they are as much quer les ouvrages de cet homme 



b inferior 



