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VI. An Account of Mr. Mark Catesby V Ejfay 
towards the “Matural Hiftory of Carolina and 
the Bahama Ijlands, with feme ExtraBs out 
of the firjl three Sets. !By Dr. Mortimer, 
S, Seer. 
O U R Author propofes in this Work to give the 
Figures of the Birds, Beafts, Fiflies, Serpents, 
Infcds and Plants, the greateft Part whereof have ne- 
ver been deferibed by any Author, or no pod Fi- 
gures given of them. He gives the Defeription of 
them in EngUJb and French^ with Obfervations of the 
Air, Soil and Watery and an Account of the Agri- 
culture, Grain, Pulfe, Roots,, and other Produdions 
of the Country, with a Map of the fame. The Au- 
thor was near four Years in thefe Parts, where he de- 
figned every thing from Nature in their proper Co- 
lours : in order to make the coloured Prints almoft 
equal’ to his Original Paintings, he engraves and co- 
lours them with his own.Hand. In this (fiort Account 
I (hall recite the Names of the feveral Animals and 
Plants, and as a Specimen of what is deferibed more at 
large juft hint fome few of the remarkable Things 
which occur in the Deferiptions of them, 
X. He begins with the Ao[u 'tla caplte alhojXht bald.. 
Eagle. This Bird lives on Fi(h. 
2. jiccipiter Pifcatorms^xhQ¥\MngYizvfV. This 
alfo lives on Filh,. which it takes by plunging into the 
Water.. The bald Eagle commonly attends him,. 
and: 
