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5. Mean time, the accounts which he 

 has given of many animals, being taken 

 from the best and latest authorities, are 

 both more accurate, and more to be de- 

 pended on, than any which had been pub- 

 lished before. Many of these I have in- 

 serted in their places, (only contracting 

 thirty or forty pages into four or five) 

 often in the room of those which were less 

 accurate, and probably less authentic ; as 

 also several of his beautiful remarks, such 

 as directly tended to illustrate that great 

 truth, OLord, how manifold are thy works ! 

 In wisdom hast thou made them all ! 



