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racy in my power." It was published in a quarto size, 

 illustrated by twenty-three plates. 



The next work which Mr Pennant published was 

 the Arctic Zoology ; and, though necessarily a com- 

 pilation, it is important as a connected and condensed 

 view of the progress of discovery, till the period of 

 its appearance, along the northern coasts of Europe, 

 Asia, and America, with an account of the inhabi- 

 tants and productions of these wild, and in most 

 instances, dreary shores. Since that period, expedi- 

 tions of discovery have done much to further our 

 geographical knowledge of these countries ; and the 

 immense accessions of the new productions, in the 

 various departments of Nature, will show that mo- 

 dern zeal has fully equalled the researches of our 

 ancestors. A comparison of the Northern Faunas 

 lately published, will prove very interesting, while 

 the reader will be convinced of the value of the Arctic 

 Zoology, by the frequent reference to it which occurs 

 in their pages. The origin and design of this work 

 will be best made known by a short extract from the 

 author's Advertisement. " This work was begun a 

 trreat many years past, when the empire of Great 

 Britain was entire, and possessed the northern part 

 of the New World with envied splendour. At that 

 period I formed a design of collecting materials for a 

 partial history of its animals ; and, with true pains, 

 my various correspondents made far greater progress 

 in my plan than my most sanguine expectations had 

 framed. Above a century ago, an illustrious prede- 



