THB 



NATURALIST'S and TRAVELLER'S 



COMPANION, &c. 



PART the SECOND. 



ALTHOUGH it may he admitted with peculiar 

 honour to the prefent age, that the know- 

 ledge of natural hiftory and of fcience in general 

 has been of late considerably enlarged ; yet as the 

 obje&s of human inquiry are numberlefs, and 

 frequently difperfed in diftant parts of the globe, 

 as well as complicated in their hiftory, the fenti- 

 ments of an ancient philofopher may be adopted 

 even at this day with propriety : " Multa etenim 

 " funt quae effe audivimus, qualia autem fint ig- 

 *' noremus ! Quamque multa venientis aevi popu- 

 * 4 his, ignota nobis, fact*!" 



At the fame time if we reflecl: upon the forego- 

 ing fuggeftion, refpe&ing the amazing progrefs 

 made in natural hiftory within the fpace of a few 

 years, we may find fufficient inducement to per- 

 Cevere in purfuits fo worthy of a rational mind. 



* Seneca, 



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