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Alex. Mal. Berger and Mr. Stillingfleet: whom 
we should not mention a second time,* but to 
confess the aid we here receive from their faith- 
ful attention to the subject in question. 
We wish that any thing we could say, would 
induce others f of our countrymen to follow their 
example: they need not fear that the matter is 
exhausted, for every county will furnish new 
observations; each of which, when compared, 
will serve to strengthen and confirm the other. 
Such an amusement is worthy of every one, be- 
neath none; but would become no order of men 
better than our clergy, as they are (or ought to 
be) the best qualified, and the most stationary 
part of the community; and, as this is a mixed 
species of study (when considered as physico- 
theology) it is therefore particularly pertinent to 
their profession. A most ingenious friend, whom 
modesty prevents from putting his name to a 
work that renders observations of this kind of 
the utmost facility, has pointed out the way, and 
methodized every remark that can occur; the 
farmer, the sportsman, and the philosopher, will 
* Vide-Preface. 
+ In Mr. Montagu’'s Ornithological Dictionary are many 
excellent observations on the migration of birds. Mr. Markuick 
has also treated the same subject in the first volume of the Lin- 
nean Transactions, and Mr. Lambert, in the third, has given 
some account of those of the feathered tribe which visit Wiltshire. 
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