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CHAP. 44. 
Catefby — Memoirs of- — His ftrong attachment to 
natural hijlory — Keftdes firft in Virginia Jeven 
years'- — andy encouraged afterwards hy Sir Hans 
Sloane and others^ returns to America — NafH- 
ral hijlory of Carolina — On birds of pajfage. 
C A T E S B Y. 
ALTHOUGH the ingenious author, 
whom I commemorate in this chap- 
ter, does not ftridtly rank among the im- 
provers of indigenous botany ; yet I cannot 
pafs over in filence, a man, to whom the 
fcience owes one of its moft elegant, and 
fuperb produftions. M^v.Mark Catesby 
was, I believe, one of thofe men, whom a 
paffion for natural hiftory very early al- 
lured from the interefting purfuits of life 5 
and it led him at length to crofs the At Ian ^ 
ticy that he might read the volume of na- 
ture in a country but imperfedlly explored, 
and where her beauties were difplayed in a 
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