SUKOTYRO. 
tdecided Opinion on the subject; and are will 
ing t6 suspend our ideas, between credulit 
and credibility, with what we conceive to bi 
a due equipoise, till such facts, or strong cir 
cumstances, may happen to arise, as shal 
more imperiously incline the balance. 
In the mean time, we seriously think, tha 
our knowledge of Nature can suffer very litth 
additional loss, by the want of certainty as t( 
this strange, singular, and at once curious am 
uncouth production; which, most assuredly 
we should by no means have been the firs 
to have adopted, had not orthodox naturalis6 
previously admitted the Sukotyro into th( 
pale of their Zoological systems. 
It is not, we desire to be always understood 
with the smallest irreverence to systematlda 
arrangement, that we at any time thus freel' 
deliver our sentiments. We are satisfied, tha 
very great men, by undervaluing the use; and 
we need not fear to assert, the necessity, 6 
system ; have blundered so egregiously, ii 
describing natural objects, that a child in sci 
ence, on perusing their most boasted investiga 
tioris 
