GRAND 



ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA 



OF 



ANIMATED NATURE. 



EMBRACING A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE 



DIFFERENT RACES OF MEN. 



AND OP THE 



CHARACTERISTIC HABITS AND MODES OF LIFE 



OF THE VARIOUS 



BEASTS, BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS, REPTILES, AND MICROSCOPIC ANIMALCULA 



OF THE GLOBE. 



BEING A COMPLETE HISTORY 



OF THE 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



BY JOHN FROST, L.L.D. 



See through this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, 

 All matter quick, and bursting into birth, 

 Above how high created life may go, 

 Around how wide, how deep extend below, 

 Vast chain of being which from God began, 

 ***** Man, 

 Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect, what no eye can see. 



EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY SPIRITED ILLUSTRATIONS, 



REPRESENTING THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF NATURAL HI8T0RT 



AUBURN, N. Y. 



THE AUBURN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 



E. G. STORKE, PUBLISHING AGENT. 



