AO DIV, EyRe tT? Tl Se Ee Ne BN: T. 
the attempt, at a time I had the honor of calling myfelf a fel- 
low-fubject with that refpectable part of our former great em- 
pire ; but when the fatal and humiliating hour arrived, which 
deprived Britain of power, ftrength, and glory, I felt the morti- 
fication which muft ftrike every feeling individual at lofing his 
little fhare in the boaft of ruling over half of the New World. I 
could no longer fupport my clame of entitling r>yfelf its humble 
Zoologift: yet, unwilling to fling away all my labors, do now 
deliver them to the Public under the title of the ArcTic 
Zootocy. I added to them a defcription of the Quadrupeds 
and Birds of the north of Europe and of A/a, from latitude 60 
to the fartheft known parts of the rétic World, together 
with thofe of Kamt/chatka, and the parts of America vilited 
in the laft voyage of the illuftrious Coox. Thefe additional 
parts I have flung into the form of an Appendix to each ge- 
nus, and diftinguifhed by a fleur de lis; and the fpecies by 
literal inftead of numeral marks, which diftinguifh thofe of 
North America. 'Thefe will, in a great meafure, fhew the 
dilatation of Quadrupeds and Birds, and the migrations of the 
feathered tribe, within part of the northern hemifphere. 
I have, whenever I could get information, given their refpec- 
tive refidences, as well as migrations to far more northern 
parts, to fhew to what very remote places the Author of Na- 
ture hath impelled them to retire, to breed in fecurity. This 
wife provifion preferves the fpecies entire, and enables them 
to return by myriads, to contribute to the food or luxuries of 
fouthern climates. Whatever is wanting in the merican part, 
I may forefee, will in time be amply fupplied. The powers. 
of literature will foon arife, with the other ftrengths of the 
new empire, and fome native Naturalift give perfection to that 
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