OR 



NATURAL HISTORY 



or 



THE FISHES rjK-wmTTT.XG THE 



AND ITS TRIBUTARY STREAMS, 



Preceded by a physical description of live Ohio and ils branches. 



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BY C. S. RAFINESQUE ; 



Professor of Botany and Natural History in Transylvania UmversTtyi An- 

 thor of the Analysis of Nature, 8;c. &c. Member of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of New-York, the Historical Society of New-York, 

 the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, the Royal 

 Institute of Natural Sciences of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts and 

 Sciences, the Medical Societies of Lexington andCmCTrnTatTT^t'. &c. 



The art of seeing -well, or of noticing and distinguishing with accuracy 

 the objects which toe perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unfolded in feto 

 individuals, and derphed by those -who ran neither acquire it, nor appreciate 

 its results. 



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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY:^ V ' 2 < ^ 



FST3TE3 TOP- THS AUTIIOK BT "W. O. HVST, (^EiC- OXX^JjiuiTW^.R^'-*-^ , 



1820. 



