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therefore be engraven, which will suffice to give 

 proper ideas of the rest ; especially as short 

 descriptions of the whole are given. 



8. Amphibious animals, as turtles, serpents, 

 &c. 



9. Fishes. 



10. Insects ; including flies, worms, and micro- 

 scopic animalcules : preceded by a dissertation on 

 the transformations of insects. Caterpillars to be 

 engraved where figures can be had. 



N.B. These three classes to be treated of and 

 illustrated as already mentioned in respect to 

 birds. 



III. OF VEGETABLES IN GENERAL. 



1. Classification of vegetables Explanation of 

 the Linnsean system, with the necessary plates, 

 by way of example of a genus from each class, 

 and a species or more of each genus, &c. 



N.B. The engravings to be executed accord- 

 ing to a scale, which will be attended with many 

 obvious advantages. 



Not discouraged by this failure he next 

 ventured on a translation of Buffon's Natural 

 History of the Earth, and of Man and Quadru- 

 peds, which he completed in nine volumes 8vo. 

 with numerous notes and illustrations, and a 

 considerable number of new observations. This 

 introduced him to the correspondence of Buffbn 

 and Pennant, the former of whom acknowledged 



