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Seville; and among many others, finally, to P. Gyilius 

 and Mathiolus, among more modern authors, it 

 should be observed that these references, though mi- 

 nute and accurate, are not extracts or quotations, but 

 simply references ; so that they are useful only when 

 the work mentioned is itself actually consulted." 



It should now be noted that this first book, be- 

 sides proper fishes, contains, as before stated, accounts 

 of the kind just described, of all varieties of aquatic 

 animals, of such quadrupeds as in popular lan- 

 guage are called amphibious, as the beaver, otter, 

 seal, and hippopotamus, of the whole order of 

 cete or whales, of reptiles, such as crocodiles, 

 frogs, tadpoles, lizards, saurines, tortoises, c. of 

 molluscous animals, as the nautilus and purpura, 

 of proper shell-fish, as the oyster, &c. of crus- 

 tacea, as the crab and lobster, also of echin- 

 dermata and polypi, such as the star-fish and sponges ; 

 and finally, the group of what may be called sea- 

 monsters, such as the triton, mermaid, the marine 

 horse and elephant, the sea-lion and hyasna, ape, 

 and hare, and the kraken ; beings as much involved 

 in obscurity at that time as they have been both 

 before and since. 



We shall now supply a few specimens of the 

 information furnished by the author, from which 

 the character of this part of the work, and the state 

 of the science, may be easily inferred ; and in doing 

 this, we shall rather follow the modern classification 

 than the alphabetic arrangement. Of the Hippo- 

 potamus, or river-horse, we are informed that the 



