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PREFACE. 
This work may be regarded as an abridg- 
ment of Mrs. Trimmer’s Natural History, though 
additions have been made from various sources, 
and a number of American animals introduced, 
not noticed in that work. An attempt has been 
made to present the subject in very clear, but 
necessarily brief terms, having it constantly in 
view to make it intelligible, instructive and use- 
ful to that class of persons for whom it is chiefly 
intended. The work is adapted not only to 
general use, but to reading and recitation in 
schools, and the opportunity which the subject 
offered for occasional reflections and remarks, 
tending to cultivate feelings of humanity towards 
domestic, as well as other animals, has not been 
neglected. On the whole, we trust the work 
may be considered an improvement upon those 
which have preceded it on the same subject. 
EDITOR, 
