Pe RO EB. PPA CoE 
and manifeftly proved the utility of the pro- 
ject, in a learned difcourfe prefixed to his 
work *. 
If then Zoology can fuggett re many 
hints towards enlarging and improving our 
manufactures and agriculture; we fhall not 
think our time mifapplied, in offering to the 
publick, the NATURAL HISTORY of 
the Qyadrupeds and Birds of GREAT BRI- 
TAIN. ‘ This compilation had its peculiar 
difficulties ; but the labor of travelling through 
a dry arrangement of the fubject, was very 
frequently alleviated by the beautiful f{peci- 
mens we met with in our progrefs: befides, 
we own with pleafure that we have been 
ereatly aided by the lovers of natural hiftory, 
who fince the appearance of the firft edition 
have contributed to enrich the prefent with 
feveral valuable obfervations; by collecting 
and digefting thefe materials, we have not 
only rendered the work more complete, but 
are alfo encouraged to trace the Briti/h Zo- 
ology through fome of the remaining claffes. 
Let therefore every merit that may appear 
in the prefent edition, and every error that 
© Swedifh Tras, tranflated from the  Aineen. Acad. fecond 
edition. 
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