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I N C E the publication of the Ar5fk Zoolegy, fo much new 

 k^ matter has been pointed out to me by friends, or occurred from 

 my own thoughts or reading, as to furnifh me with materials for a 

 Supplement. This I fend into the world in order to render the work 

 as perfeft as polTible ; and, in cafe the public fhould call for a new 

 edition, to take away caufe of complaint from the purchafers of the 

 firft, of not being made partakers of any improvements fuch an edi- 

 tion might receive. 



To enlarge the American Zoology as much as poffible, I have flung 

 the Reptiles and the Filhes of the northern part of that vaft con- 

 tinent into a' fyftematic form; and, by permifTion of Mr. Benjamin 

 White, have added, from the labors of the learned John Reinhold For- 

 Jler, the Catalogue of the animals of North America *. How fmall a 

 part is this .of the Zoology of our loft dominions ! May what I have 

 done be an inducement for fome learned native to refume the fubjeft ! 

 and I fhall without envy fee my trivial labors loft in the immenficy 

 of new difcoveries. Vain thought ! for ages muft pafs, ere the necef- 

 fary perfedion can be given, ere the animated nature which fills the 

 Ipace between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans can be inveftrgated. 

 Ages muft pafs, before new colonization can puih its prdgrefs weft- 

 ward : and even then, civilization, eafe, and luxury, muft take place, 



* Publifhed by Mr. White, in 177 1. 



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