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Zoology, 

 Or the doctrine of animals: not a dry syste,n of 

 cl if ification only ; but also to give an account of 

 the habitudes and uses of the different animals, in 

 food and in arts ; and the method of catching riv,se 

 that are useful, or of destroying such as are hurtful 

 to man. 



Botany, 

 Or the doctrine of vegetables. 

 Meteorology. 

 The doctrine of meteors, including the doctrine 

 of electricity, and the different kinds of air, from 

 whose combinaiions and separations are produced 

 so many of those pUtnoraena which are reducible 

 to this clafs. 



Hydrography, 

 Or the doctrine of waters. Including the theory 

 of tides, cm It .J. a, 'iSc. \3c. 



Of these branches of natural history, botany is 

 t-.e oaly one that has hitherto been separately 

 tauglit ; though the others are at least of equal im- 

 DO-tauce. 



The philosophy of history. 

 Including philosophical geography and chronolo- 

 gy, connected with historical events. 



From the want of a systematic arrangement in this 

 branch of science, history is in general a confused 

 and uninteresting study to youth, in comparison of 

 what it naturally ought to be. Here tliould be gi- 

 v-u a general comprehensive ^'i^;^v of leading events, 

 in which their connection with reg trd to time and 

 .place {hould be so marked as to make an indelible 



