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terest to readers who are not professedly students in 

 the science, in order to preserve somewhat more 

 space for genera of greater importance, and close 

 this incomplete Essay, in the hope that a full and 

 detailed Synopsis of the Mammalia may he shortly 

 undertaken, illustrated with abundant Plates, and 

 sufficiently detailed to notice all the discoveries and 

 additions made by the zealous Naturalists of the 

 present time. 



