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many extremely different placed for comparison 

 in the same page. It would be inconsistent with 

 the professed object of this elementary treatise to 

 insert a variety of theoretical matter, which could 

 only tend to divert the mind from the simplicity 

 of the Linnaean system ; it is that alone which the 

 author wishes to illustrate, availing himself of the 

 substance of what has hitherto been published, 

 where it is well authenticated, and not inseparably 

 connected with any other method of arrangement. 



