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This volume, being the lad: he intended to publifh 
at that time, he feems to have confidered it as the 
mod: perfect of his productions in Natural Hiftory; 
and therefore devoutly offered it up to the great God 
of Nature, in humble gratitude for all the good 
things he had received from him in this world* 
Our author, in 1758, continued his labours under 
a new title, viz. Gleanings of Natural Histo- 
ry, exhibiting feventy different birds, fiflies, in- 
fedts, and plants, mod: of which were before non-de- 
Icripts, coloured from nature, on fifty copper plates, 
dedicated to the truflees of the Brittidi Mufeum. This 
volume was accompanied with a French tranflation up¬ 
on the fame page oppodte the Englifh—»in the for¬ 
mer volumes the defcriptions in French were printed 
feparate. 
A fecond volume of the Gleanings was publifhed 
in 1760, containing fifty plates and defcriptions, as 
well as engravings of one hundred animals and 
plants. Our Naturalifl dedicated this volume to 
the Earl of Bute. 
The third part, which made the feventh and laft 
volume 
