FROM THE PUBLISHER. 



There is no department of our plan, as detailed 

 in the original Prospectus of this Work, in which 

 we hare unfortunately been so far deficient, as that 

 of the subject which occupies the present Volume. 

 This has arisen from a variety of causes, over which 

 it has been difficult to exercise controul ; but we 

 now hope to supply the want, -and to do so in a 

 more interesting manuer, than if we had at once 

 availed ourselves of the hackneyed examples and 

 descriptions in the power of every one. 

 The volume on 



ICHTHYOLOGY 



with which we now present our Readers, will be 

 found a comprehensive digest upon the whole sub- 

 ject, and contains, besides, an ample introduction 

 to the study of the various tenants of the " waters 

 under the firmament," many specimens of the most 

 useful and most wonderful forms which inhabit the 

 " great deep." 



