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general chains of nature j and, to this \7e mufl afcribe the many mif- animal 

 takes in fubdividing, or Gombining genera j the other, that, by 



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continually fixing en the general view of the whole extent of n 



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ture, they forget to defcend to the particulars of claflification. 



which the imperfed flate of the fciencs requires. It is from keep 



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between thefe extremes, that the illuflrious 



•Linnaeus has acquired fo great a fame in -the literary world, and 



methodized all the produdicns of nature v/ithfuch judgment, that 



-future ages will ever own him as the father of the fcience. It is 



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-from falling into the firft error, that fome untravelled naturalifts load 



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Buffon and Profefibr Pallas 



and fuch acute zoologijfls as M. de 

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