MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 
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cessor iu the Hue of Natural History, who as greatly 
exceeded me in abilities as he did in zeal, meditated 
a voyage to the New World, in pursuance of a si- 
milar design. The gentleman alluded to was Francis 
Willoughby, Esq., who died iu 1672, on the point 
of putting his design into execution. Emulous of so 
illustrious an example, I took up the object of his 
pursuit ; but my many relative duties forbade me 
from carrying it to the length conceived by that great 
and good man. What he would have performed, 
from an actual inspection in the native country of 
the several subjects under consideration, I must con- 
tent myself to do, in a less perfect manner, from pre- 
served specimens transmitted to me ; and offer to 
the 'tt'orld their Natural History, taken from gentle- 
men or writers who have paid no small attention to 
their manners.” During the progi-ess of this work 
he received assistance from Dr Garden, in America, 
Pallas, Thunberg, Sparman, Muller, and Fabricius, 
besides many other northern naturalists, more eager 
than another to render what assistance they could to 
this great undertaking. 
The Arctic Zoology is contained in three quarto 
volumes, to which a supplement of 163 pages was 
afterwards added. The first volume is entirely de- 
voted to a sketch of the range of coast and country 
which is to be described. He commences at Dover, 
and carries his reader along the eastern side of Bri- 
tain, to the Orkneys, Shetland, the Faroe isles, and 
Iceland. He returns, and sets out again from Calais, 
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