NATURAL HISTORY. 



sessed of, in elucidation of the subjects; our great aim 

 being to present such a history of our different native ani- 

 mals, as may amuse, whilst it instructs, and tend to invite 

 our readers to closer and more minute investigations. 



the public, we leave the candid and judicious to decide. 

 In the formation of plans, the general and the statesman, 

 the author and the artist, are apt to rely too much on their 

 own powers, and the fortuitous concurrence of favourable 

 circumstances. That which displayed elegance and splen- 

 With these views we have undertaken the present dour, when it existed only in idea, but too often becomes 

 work; how far the execution may merit the approbation of mean and uncouth when brought into real existence. 



THE EDITORS. 



