THE 



BRITISH MISCELLANY: 



OK 



COLOURED FIGURES 



OP 



NEW, RARE, OR LITTLE KNOWN 



ANIMAL SUBJECTS; 



MANY NOT BEFORE ASCERTAINED TO BE INHABITANTS 

 OF THE BRITISH ISLES; 



AND 



CHIEFLY IN THE POSSESSION OF THE AUTHOR, 



JAMES SOWERBY, F.L.S. 



HONORARY MEMBER OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF GOTTINGEN; 



DESIGNER OF ENGLISH BOTANY AND EXOTIC BOTANY; AND 



AUTHOR OF ENGLISH FUNGI AND BRITISH MINERALOGY. 



Let no presuming impious railer tax 

 Creative Wisdom, as if aught was formed 

 In vain, or not for admirable ends. 



And lives the man whose universal eye 



Has swept at once th' unbounded scheme of things? 



Thomson's Seasons, Line 318, &fc. 



VOL. I. 



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And sold by the Author, J. SowERBY, at No. 2, Mead-Place, 

 Lambeth; by White, Fleet-street; Johnson, St. Paul's 

 Churcliyard; Symonds, Paternoster Row ; and 

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MDCCCVI. 



