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MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 
Consett, Esq., accompanied by Sir G. H. Liddell, 
was illustrated with engravings by Beilby and Be- 
wick, the latter executing all those relating to natu- 
ral history, particularly the rein-deer and their Lap- 
land keepers, brought over by Sir II. Liddell, whom 
he had thus the unexpected opportunity of delineat- 
ing from the life. During this interval, he also drew 
and engraved on copper, at the expense of their re- 
spective proprietors, “ The Whitley large Ox,” be- 
longing to Mr Edward Hall, the four quarters of 
which weighed 187 stone; and “The remarkable 
Kyloe Ox,” bred in Mull by Donald Campbell, Esq. 
and fed by Mr Robert Spearman of Rothley Park, 
Northumberland. This latter is a very curious spe- 
cimen of copper-plate engraving, combining the styles 
of wood and copper, particularly in the minute man- 
ner in which the verdure is executed. 
At length appeared “ The General History of 
Quadrupeds,” a work uncommonly well received by 
the public, and ever since held in increased estima- 
tion. Perhaps there never was a work to which the 
rising generation of the day was, and no doubt that 
for many years to come will be, under such obliga- 
tions, for exciting in them a taste for the natural 
history of animals. The representations which are 
given of the various tribes, possess a boldness of de- 
