NATURAL HISTORY. 
We are now arrived at that portion of our work 
in which the natural history of the neighbourhood is 
proposed to be iliustrated: this important and 
fascinating study, which furnishes one of the best 
motives for exercise, and the best antidote to ennui, 
The useful with the sweet combining, 
To make life pass without repining, 
being every day deservedly increasing in popularity, 
we shall devote to it space and attention commen- 
surate with its claims, We commence with Zoology, 
as the highest point in the seale; and the vertebral 
animals, viz. Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes, 
being at once the fewest and most important, we shail 
give lists of them as complete and correct as our 
information will admit. 
{In respect to all the rest, we shall, (unless where 
otherwise specified,) give carefully corrected lists of 
those most worthy attention for their rarity, beauty, 
or local interest, with occasional reference to des- 
' €riptions and plates, for the’ puipose of directing the 
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