t 65 3 



THE 



NATURALIST'S 



AND 



TRAVELLER'S COMPANION. 



PART the Second. 



ALTHOUGH it may be admitted with 

 peculiar honor to the prefent age, that 

 the knowledge of natural hiftory and 

 of fcience in general has been of late confider- 

 ably enlarged; yet as the objects of human 

 enquiry are numberlefs, and frequently dif- 

 perfed in diftant parts of the globe, as well as 

 complicated in their hiftory, the fentiments of 

 an ancient philofopher may be adopted even at 

 this day with propriety; " Multa etenim funt 

 " quse eife audivimus, qualia autem fint igno- 

 *' remus ! Quamque multa venientis asvi popu- 

 * c lus, ignota nobis, fciet (a) ! w 



At the fame time if we reflect upon the fore- 

 going fuggeftion, refpecting the amazing pro- 

 grefs made in natural hiftory within the fpace 

 of a few years, we may find fuiHcient induce- 



(a) Seneca, 



F 



ment 



