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PREFACE. 



'"JpHE greateft part of the following 

 Eflays have already appeared before 

 the public in Mr. Edivards' Natural 

 Ilifiory^ but in a detached and unconneél- 

 ed form, and at an expence perhaps rather 

 too great for many who delight in Natural 

 Hiftory. 



It was therefore to accommodate fuch, 

 and to afTift the curious in their re- 

 fearches, or any future writer upon this 

 fubjedl, that the editor has been induced 

 to this publication : and to make it ftill 

 more generally ufeful, there is added a ca- 

 talogue, in generical order, in Englifh and 

 French, of the names of all the hirds^ 

 beafls^ jijhes^ infers ^ plants^ &c. &c. con- 

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