THE 



GALLERY 



OF 



NATURE AND ART. 



PART I. 



NATURE. 



BOOK IV. 

 ZOOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 



CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF ANIMALS. 



Xt is not our intention to take any notice, in the present edition of 

 the Gallery of Nature and Art, of the different varieties of the 

 human race, the causes of those varieties, or the customs and man- 

 ners which have distinguished different ages and countries; though, 

 if it should meet with that success which the encouragement so 

 liberally afforded it seems powerfully to prognosticate, we shall 

 follow it up with other supplementary volumes to that effect. At 

 present, however, we shall confine ourselves to a brief survey of 

 the more singular and curious of the inferior animals that are scat- 

 tered over the face of the globe. 



In consequence of the number of these animals, it would be im- 

 possible for mankind to distinguish them from one another, or to 

 gain any considerable knowledge of their relative nature and habits, 



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