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each number. The text is properly and scientifically classified, 

 and when the Work shall be completed the Plates can be placed 

 and be bound corresponding with the order of the Text, in 

 either thre^e or four Volumes. The regular issue of the Num- 

 bers will commence so soon as the number of Subscribers will 

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As the Work will be published for Subscribers alone, few 

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 not possible that its pecuniary value can ever be much reduced ; 

 on the other hand, the probabilities are that it will rather 

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 the cost the mere expense of manufacturing has been taken 

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 the Copper-plates, which was nearly One hundred thousand 

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The first Number is considered superior in many respects 

 to the same Plates in the first Edition, and it is confidently 

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New York, March 31, 1859. 



J. W. AUDUBON. 



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