ESSAY II. 



On Natural History; and chiefly 

 Ornithology. 



C H A P. I. 



NATURAL Hiftory cannot, in any de- 

 gree, be perfe6t without figures ; there- 

 fore I think we ftiould promote draw- 

 ing in all fuch young people who feem to have 

 a liking to it ; no one need think it an amufe- 

 ment beneath his dignity, fince our prefent royal 

 family, and many of the young nobility, have 

 been inftru6led in that art. Every one who con- 

 fults ancient authors is very fenfible of their 

 deficiencies in the want of figures ; for many 

 things are mentioned by a bare name, without 

 any defcription or figure ; and great phyfical 



virtues 



