MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 51 
they are dead. We are not, however, to conclude 
that this bird swims, since it has not the necessary 
instruments ; but it flies, so to speak, in the water ; 
and it has probably the power of hooking itself to 
the bottom of the river whilst searching for its prey.” 
(Zé. 146.) 
We must now bring these extracts to a close, and 
must altogether deny ourself and readers the plea- 
sure which might be derived from his numerous 
notices on ichthyology, and the various modes in 
which the fisheries are conducted ; as also on ento- 
mology, including so many of the attractive wonders 
of the insect world; and so likewise, finally, must 
we omit the whole wide field of botany, not one 
specimen of which ever seems to have escaped his 
piercing and scrutinizing glance. 
But the many objects which during these six 
years of travel Pallas had witnessed, and which 
were alluded to in the work on which we have 
been dwelling, had taken too strong a hold on his 
imagination to permit him to be content with the 
somewhat hasty sketches he supplied in this jour- 
nal; he had extensively and deeply studied man 
and animals, the crust of the earth, and whatever 
is found upon it; and meditating on his remarks, 
they became the subjects of so many distinct trea- 
tises, to which he devoted all his powers. He now 
published “ The History of the more remarkable 
Animals of Siberia, including the Musk Ox, the 
Glutton, the Sable, the White Bear, &c. ;’ histories 
which are so full and admirably given, that, according 
