5| 'A Preliminary T^mrfimcer^^ Jmtom^ 
iJitfiit Infi-ruments and tools tb work' with ; JSrtle g^ve their- 
PfeinS, others their Purfes all* theip de/ir^ss and gbbd' 
wiflies to fb noble a defign. But lince it will be (bme time 
before we can expeft lb vail: a Pile to be cOmpleated ; 
gr^t€<ire muft be had, that what is brought iii^ be^pre^ - 
Krved and fccured either from the liiptU^ ^^ tho. Xv^a- 
therbr times, or danger of being fquandered away; and*' 
that ail may be ready at hand ■ ivfaeh ttey ccmc to^ have 
occafion of ufing it inraifing thisi'tately fabriclc; for the 
iWodelling and contriving of which the skilfuUeil: Artifts 
mikft be coniiilted with, thoiagli eventhe meaneft in fbme 
things may. give in tlieir Informations.' 1 fhalt therefore- 
here prOpofc a rude Draught or Sciagraphy- of a Natunl^ 
Mi^orfof Ammds\ fuchas haftily occiirred to mc; not' 
what may be done, or tl&i thing; feqiiires, but what haply 
may aftbrd fome Hints to othei^l ' ' ' ' 01 
■ Tn corapilirig therefbrexA^^i^/ Mi^dry of /wmdls^ ' 
have alwayes tlioughc tliat Ambition of fome of Writing' 
mVmverfai, more Pompous than Inftrufltive ; for the 
Method they have ufually taken hath been to rake in all 
fromfbrmer Authors, without fcparating the weeds^ or ' 
fifting the chaff fipm the Grain : By this they have faV^^- 
ther prop^igated maijy antiquated errors, without addin f 
midisnexv Truths to thte ftoekthemfelves. But haa 
they taken as much pains and travail imfearching the- 
Books of A^^^are as they have in thofeof former Writerp^- 
and inftead of giving us an account of Animalsof forrdm^ 
Countreyi: ( which ^' they could not obferve ) they had 
made a curious and ftrifilnquiry into thofe of their o vn ^ 
their accounts would have been more faithful ^and wcl-" 
comcj and they have defcrved more for this Particular*:: 
rfian their-univerfal Hiftory^ 
I could therefore wifh we had a good Hiftory of the- 
Animals-of ourownCountreyj and not like giddy Tra- 
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