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which is the pofleflbr of that great conti- 

 nent, a great part of which is here accu- 

 rately and impartially defcribed, efpecially 

 at this time when American affairs attract 

 the attention of the public. 



We intend to join for the better illuftra- 

 tion of the work, a map and drawings of 

 American birds and animals which were not 

 in the original. They will be copied from 

 original drawings and real birds and ani- 

 mals from North America, which we have 

 accefs to, and muft therefore give to this 

 tranflation a fuperiority above the original 

 and the German tranflation. 



An encourager of this work propofed it 

 as an improvement to the tranflation of 

 Ka/m's travels, to add in the margin the 

 paging of the original, as by this means 

 recourfe would be had eafily to the quotati- 

 ons made by Dr. Linnaus. We would 

 very readily have complied with this defide- 

 ratum, had we had the Swedijh edition of 

 this work at hand, or had the work not 

 been too far advanced at the time we got 

 this kind hint : however this will be 

 remedied by a copious index, which will 

 certainly appear at the end of the whole 

 work. 



As we have not yet been able to procure 

 a compleat lift of the fubfcribers and encou- 



ragers 



