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ADVERTISEMENT. 



on him three others, engraven at my own expence, 

 before the work was dropped. Thefe were never 

 publiihed in England '^ but when Dr. Forjier left 

 our ifland, he took the whole with him, and in 

 1 781 printed, at Halle^ in Saxony^ an edition very 

 highly improved, and tranflated into Latin and 

 German. He prefixed to it a moft elaborate lu- 

 cubration de Finibus et Indole A'erisy Soli^ Marif- 

 que Indici; defcribed the fubjeds of the three ad- 

 ditional plates ; and inferted, after the defcription of 

 the fifteenth plate, a moft learned differtation on 

 the genus of the Birds of Paradise, and on the 

 Phoenix. He added feveral notes ; and at the end 

 prefented his readers with a Faunula of the qua- 

 drupeds and birds of the extenfive region of In- 

 dia and its iflands. 



The laft year, Mr. Robert Faulder^ o^ New Bond- 

 Jlreetj bookfeller, applied to me for permiffion to 

 reprint this very imperfed performance. I con- 

 fented; but advifed him by all means to get the 

 additions by Dr. Forfier tranflated, and an improved 

 Faunula to be formed from the beft authorities 



which 



