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Whether mcdl'cally or ehcmicajlv considered, this vrork iff, 

 in great part, a compilation. It does not appear that Dr* 

 Saunders has himfelf actually analyfed the different mineral 

 waters of which he here gives the biftory : but he may have 

 had opportunity to obferve the effects of them all, when ad-> 

 miniltered as remedies. His compilation is made with dili- 

 gence, with difcrimivvation, and with evident care for accu- 

 racy. A rieh vein of medical good fenfe runs through the 

 whole work ; and it is even much that the authority of a 

 phvfician fo truly refpectable as Dr. Saunders, is added to 

 that of tl>e different medical writers-, bv which the remedial 

 iifes of thefc waters had been before examined and explained. 



General Zoology, or Syjlematic Natural llijlory. Bj George: 

 Shaw, M.D. F.R.S. With Plates from the fir jl Autho- 

 rities and mqfi Jelect Specimens. Vol. I. Mammalia, 

 Kearney, London; 1800. 8vo: 55Z Pages, 121 Plates. 



AFTER the ftudv of man, what can be more in-terefting 

 or ufeful than to examine the different forms, colours, and 

 manners of the lower animals ; to trace their local hiftory 

 over the earth, as they are in their respective (ituatiens to be 

 met with ; to acquaint oxrrfelves with their relations to the 

 ufes of human life, as well as with the mutual connections 

 and dependencies of their various fpecies on the reft of na- 

 ture, and on one another? 



We owe to two illuftrrous foreign naturalifts, De Buffon 

 and Linnaeus, thofe fyftems of natural hiftory bv which the 

 knowledge of this fcien.ee has been, in the courfe of the 

 prefent centnryy the mo ft fucecfsfully diffufed. De Buffon, 

 writing in a popular language, and with great fplendour of 

 ftvle, has become the natural hiitorian of the people : Lin- 

 yueus, feeking his chief merit in the excellencies of fcientific 

 enumeration and arrangement, has become - the guide of phi - 

 toibphers. Buffon is quoted as good authority : Linnaeus is 

 followed, with implicit reverence, as a matter. The fchooi 

 of Buffon is now, almoft exclufively, confined to his contr- 

 nuators and editors : all Europe has adopted the arrangement 

 and the terms of Limweus; and his influence is as great in 



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