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Animah fctini In Norfolk, 



[Sept. J, 



For Love, the earlieft tyrant of my breaft, 



Impetuous raviftier of joy and reft, 



Burfts like a torrent from bis motl:er's arsis, 



And Alls my trembling foul with nevy 

 alarms. 



Like Borc!S rufliing from his TJiracian 

 plains, 



Cloath'd in fierce lightnings anJ c'ervvhelm- 

 ing rains. 



So rages in my foul the madd'niuo; pow'r ; 



His parching fires nvy withering heart de- 

 vour ; 



A burning phrenzy comes my fcnfi'S o'er ; 



Sweet peace is fled, and reafcin is no more. 



' The foFt and eafy ftyle of Bacchylides* 

 niP.y be well contrafted with both the fore- 

 going, by the following fVa|;ir.ent of a 

 Pas-n, or facrtd hymn to Peace, the con- 

 clufioii. of which may entitle him to a 

 comparifon with the amorous poets. 



For thee, fweet Peace, abundance glads the 



plains ; 

 Thy fmilcs infpire the bard to heavenly 



ftrains. 

 On many an altar, at thy glad return, 

 Pure viftims bleed, and holy odours burn, 

 And frolic youth their happy age apply 

 To graceful movements, fports, and min- 



ftrelfy. 

 Dark fpiders weave their webs within the 



ihield, 

 Ruft eats the fpear,. the terror of the field, 

 And bvjien trumpets now no more affright 

 The fi'.-^nt llumbers of ambroful Kig'it. 

 Infiiiring banquets gladden ail the ways, 

 And youths and maidens fmg their rounde- 

 lays. 



( To be tonlinued. ) 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



PERMIT me to reqvieft the infertlon 

 in your excellent Milbellany of the fol- 

 lowing catalogue of the animals that were 

 to be foiiml in N-Jifolk about a century 

 ago. It is drawn up from a mitiufcript 

 lift nnade by Dr. (aiterwards Sir Thomas) 

 Browne, of Norwich, thejufily celebrat- 

 ed author of the " Trerailecn Vulgar Er- 

 rors." This lift was communicated by 

 him to Merret, who has inlertcd a hw of 

 the names, but iK>ne of the remarks an- 

 nexed to them, in his " Pinax Rerum Na- 

 ttiralium Britannicarum." The oiiginal 

 is dep fited in the Britifli Mufeum. The 



* Bacchylides owed his birth to the ifland 

 of Cos, and was nephev/ to Simonides. He 

 lived about 300 years before Chriit. 



animals, however, are arranged in no or- 

 der, but appear to have been infertcd 

 mtrely as they occurred to the recnikilion 

 •Or obfervation of the writer. They aie 

 Here reduced toihe Linnas.m claffifica.ion j 

 the names now in ui'e are ad<ied, and the 

 orthography and languaj^e are fomevvhat 

 modernized. Such parts, as were unintc- 

 rtfling, from their recorriin:? only well- 

 known f^cts, are omiitcd. For thefe li- 

 berties it is necefl'ary to make fome apo- 

 logy ; and I trull it will be confideieJ Inf- 

 ficicnt for me 10 fay, that, although the 

 original would be confidered as highly va- 

 luable by a naturalift, yet fuch is its con- 

 fufion, from the old names, from the total 

 want of urrangement, and the ludenefs 

 of language (in memoranda written oiten- 

 tirass apparently in great haiSe), that, to 

 the general reader, it woidd afford but a 

 very fmnll fiiare either of information or 

 intercft. Such of the animals as I have 

 n t been able to alcertain, are inferted by 

 themfelves at the end of the clafs to which 

 they belong. To fome of the articles I 

 Inve added a few fliovt obfervations, 

 vvhere explanation or additional remarks 

 app:3red to me to be necedary. It is 

 fomcvvhat fingular, that, out of all the 

 kn&wn Britilh tjuadrupeds, the feal and 

 ctter alone have place in ihe above cJta- 

 logtie. The b-aciger, wild-cat, and deer 

 (if the two laft i'pecies weie then known 

 in Norfolk, snd there can be little doubt 

 but they wer<), with feveral others, had 

 certainly as good a claim to notice as ei- 

 ther of thefe. From the great number of 

 birds whole names are inferted, it is to be 

 prefumed that the feathered tribes had oc- 

 cupied by far the greateft part of the wri. 

 ter's time and attention. The fi(h, but 

 particularly the fmaller animals, as the 

 zoophyfes, tfftacea, and inlt6ls, are very 

 impcrfcft. Of the former tnere are fre- 

 quciitly little more than either the names 

 given to them by the old writers, or thofe 

 by which they were known to the Norfolk 

 fiflieimen. Many of the common ani- 

 mals in all the cialTes are no doubt pur- 

 pofely omitted. 



I (ruft that it is netdlefs for me to ftate 

 to you the utility of publilhing county- 

 lifts of animals, with remarks of original 

 obfervers, where thofe remarks are perti- 

 nent or ufeful. By fuch means very efien- 

 tial fervices may be rendered towards 

 completing the natural hiftory of our 

 country, which at prelent is but very im- 

 perfedlly known. I am. Sir, Sec. 



X. P. S. 



MAMMALIA. 



