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pensated to them, by those innate or instinctive 

 qualities, which, while by means the must won- 

 derful, they contribute to their preservation and 

 enjoyment in every possible way their circum- 

 stances may require, evince at once the pro- 

 tecting care that has been bestowed upon each 

 living' creature, according to its wants, and to 

 the respective sphere in which it was intended 

 to move. 



The Mammiferous Quadrupeds therefore, in 

 all their several particulars, form a most i< terest- 

 ing branch of Natural History, well desrmng of 

 your investigation ; and having acquired a know- 

 ledge of their structure, habits, and eronnmy, 

 each of which subjects claim your minutest en- 

 quiry, and of their general utility, more espe- 

 cially as referable to our own species; you will 

 not fail to be invited to examine the other parts 

 of the Creation ; in which you will find the same 

 wisdom and contrivance, and the same provi- 

 dential care, as have been bestowed on the 

 animals, whose history I have now done myself 

 the honour to recommend to your notice. 



ON THE WHALE TRIBES. 



We corn e now to a description of animals, to 

 which, from the peculiarity of their internal 

 structure as opposed to their external form and 

 habits, I have deemed it expedient to give a 

 separate consideration. 1 allude to Ihe Whale 



