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except fome Water Fowl, and fome of thofe wKich femps de tout faire. De Cette'manlere je croh qua 

 frequent the Sea. 



feu d'' Oifeaux 7nont echape^ excepte quelques Oifeaux 



aquatiques^ ^ quelques un^ de ceux qui frequente?U 

 la Mer. 



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Pour les ^uadrupedes^ il ny en a que peu d ^efpeces 



differeiites de celles qui fe trouvent dans h vieux 



except thofe which do not materially differ from the Mo?2de: fe?j at dejjim la plus gra7ide parties hors 



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f Beafts there are not many Ipecles dliTercnt from 

 thofe in the old World : moft of thefe I have fiorured, 



fame fpecies in Europe, and thofe which have been 

 defcribed by other Authors. 



. Of Serpents, very few, I believe, have efcaped 

 me, for upon fliewingmy Deflgns of them tofeveral 

 of the moft intelligent perfons, many of them con- 



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feffed that they had not (^Qn them all, and none of 

 them pretended to have feen any other kinds. 



Of Fifh, I have defcribed not above five or fix 

 from Carolina, deferring that work till my arrival at 

 the Bahama Iflands ; for as they afford but ^qw 

 Quadrupeds and Birds, I Jia^rnore time to defcribe 

 the Fifhes, and tho' I had been often told they vi^ere 

 very remarkable, yet. I was furprifed to find "how 

 lavifhly nature had adorned them with Marh and 

 Colours moft admirable. 



ceux qui ne differed pas heaucoup de la 7ne}ne efpece 



en Europe, ou ceux qui ont ete decrits par d"" autre si 

 Auteurs. . 



Je pe}ife que tres peu de Serpens r/iont echape\. 

 car en faifaiit voir mes dejjeins a un .grand no?nhre 

 de perfo?ines tres int diligent es en ces matieres, plufieurs 

 mojU avoue quiis ne les avoie?2t pas tous vus aupa^ 



rava?tt, M perfonne n a prete7idu en co?inoitre d'autrei 

 efpeces. - , . , 



ye n at pas dkrit plus de cinq ou Jix efpeces ds 

 PoiJfo7is de la Caroline : je r envoy ai ce travail jufqu a: ■ 



mon 



arrivee aux iles Bahama : on ny trouve 



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As for Infects, thefe Countries abound in nu 



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quQ 

 peu d' Oifeaux &' d'Animaux a quatre pies, ainf ja 



comptoisy avoir plus de temps pourde crire les Poiffo?is 

 &' quoiquon mi eut prevenufur leur beaute fnguliere,- 

 je ne laijfai pas d'etre furpris, en voyant avec quelk^ 

 profufofi la Nature les a ornes de couleurs &^ ds 

 t aches, dont V eclat 77ierite la plus gra7ide admiration. 

 Ces pays aho7ide7tt en differe7ites efpeces d' hfeEles . 



771 ont e7n-, 



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merous kinds, but I was not able to delineate a great ^ mais les raifons, que fai deja raportees, 



number of them for the reafons already affigned. ^^che d'en dejftner un grand _ no j7tbre, Apres avoir 



After my Continuance almoft three years in Carolina, ^te pe7tdant prh de trois a72s d la Caroli7ie, 

 and the adjacent parts (which the Spaniards call 



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Florida^ particularly that Province lately honoured 

 with the name of Georgia) I went to Providence, 

 one of the Baha7na Iflands : to which Place I was 



mv 



ited 



his Excellency Charles Phinney^ Efq;. 

 Governor of thofe Iflands, and was entertained by, 

 him with much Hofpitality and Kindnefs. From, 



environsy particulierement dam cette Province quo?i 

 a honoree du no7n de Georgie (que les Efpagnols ap" 

 p, client la Floride) fallai a la Provide7tce, qui ef tin$- 

 des ties Baha77ta ', fy avois ' ete invite par f on Excel- 



lence Mr, Charles Phinney, Gouverneur de ces ties 



qui 7ne requt chez hi, &' 7;iy retint pe7tda7tt tout mott 

 fejour avec beaucoup de bonte. De la je vifitai plu~ 



thence I vifited many of the adjacent Iflands, par-: feurs des iles voifmes, enparticulier Ilathere, Andros, 



ticularly Ilathera, Andros, Abbacco and other neigh- 

 bouring Iflands. Tho' thefe rocky Iflands produce 

 many fine Plants, which I have here defcribed ; I 



h^d principally a regard to the Fifli, there being not. 



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any, or a very few of them, defcribed by any Au- 

 thor. Both in Carolina and on thefe Iflands, I made 

 fuccefllve CGlle<ilions of dried Plants and Seeds, and 

 at thefe Iflands more particularly I cojledted many Sub- 



Abbaco, & quelques autres des mviro7Js, ^oi que 

 les plei7us de rochers, produifent plufeurs Plantes 

 tres curieufes, que j'' ai decrites id, je 77i att achat prin- 

 cipale77tent aux Poijjons, parce quil tty en a aucun 

 ou du 7iioins tres peu qui ayerJ ete decrits par les 

 Auteurs. A la Caroline ^f dans ces ties je fis fuc- 

 cejfive77tent des colleBlions de Pla7ites dejechees &" de 



Setfiences ; &' fur tout datis 



ties 



je ramaffai 



marine produdions, as Shells, Corallmes, Frutices Ma- phfmirs produaio7is de la Mer, coimne des Coquilles, 



des Cor aux, des Arbriffeaux 77tari7js, des Eponges, des 



nV//, Spdngesj Afroites, &;c. Thefe I imparted to my 

 curious Friends, more particularly (as I had the 



greateft Obligations) fo that great Naturalift and 

 Promoter of Science Sir Hans Shane, Bart, to whofe 



good- 



Afroites, 



c. 



en ai fait prefe7it a quelques cu^ 



rieux de 7nes Amis, ^ fur tout, ainfi que fy etois 



oblige. 



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