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MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 
racyin my power.” It was published in a quarto size, 
illustrated by twenty-three plates. 
The next work which Mr Pennant published was 
the Arctic Zoology ; and, though necessarily a com- 
pilation, it is important as a connected and condensed 
view of the progress of discovery, till the period of 
its appearance, along the northern coasts of Europe, 
Asia, and America, with an account of the inhabi- 
tants and productions of these unld, and in most 
instances, dreary shores. Since that period, expedi- 
tions of discovery have done much to further our 
geographical knowledge of these countries ; and the 
immense accessions of the new productions, in the 
various departments of Nature, will show that mo- 
dern zeal has fully equalled the researches of our 
ancestore. A comparison of the Northern Faunas 
lately published, will prove very interesting, while 
the reader will be convinced of the value of the Arctic 
Zoology, by the frequent reference to it which occurs 
in their pages. The origin and design of this work 
will be best made known by a short extract from the 
author’s Advertisement. “ This work was begun a 
great many years past, when tlie empire of Great 
Britain was entire, and possessed the northern part 
of the New World with envied splendour. At that 
period I formed a design of collecting materials for a 
partial history of its animals ; and, with true pains, 
my various correspondents made far greater progress 
in my plan than my most sanguine expectations had 
framed. Above a century ago, an illustrious prede- 
