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needed to ha^e been built, as their number is fo 

 fmall : but when it is recolleded, that all Nature 

 was under his eye, and that therefore the fubjedts 

 were almoft infinite, it became neceffary to form 

 the bafis of every great divifion or clafs, as far as 

 foffthle^ on one fimple foundation. And perhaps it is 

 the obfervance of this rule that has given Lin- 

 N^us's fyftem fo greatly the advantage over all 

 foregoing writers. For, as nature does not feem 

 to have obferved any fyftem, ours muft be artificial, 

 and will ever have its anomalies. As an artificial 

 fyftem therefore, that muft have the preference, 

 which will moft readily lead to the fubjed under 

 inveftigation ; in which cafe it is of fmall im- 

 portance where it is placed, and how far removed 

 from others with which it feems to bear a fimilar 

 and general appearance. 



^j^We fhall clofe this brief view of the arrangement 

 of animals, by exhibiting the number of fubjeds 

 enumerated, all of which are fynonymed by thq 

 author, in the 12th edition of his Syfiem. 



Mammalia 



219 



Infers 



3075 



Birds 



931 



Vermes 



1163 



Amphibia 



291 



Various, I 





Fifties 



398 



from the 



1* 140 







MantifTaeJ 







Total 



6217. 





With the firft tome of the Syjiema Nature is in- 

 timately connedled a work of the profeflbr's, pub- 

 liftied under the title of Museum Ludovica XJlric^e 



Regin^^, in quo anim^li^ rariora exoticay imprimis 



infe^O; 



