A N 
H I S T O R 
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animal 
' Containing Descriptions of the 
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Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects, 
O F T H E 
Several PARTS of the WORL D; 
AND 
Including Accounts of the feveral Gaffes of Animalcules* 
vifible only by the Affiftarice of Microscopes. 
IN THESE ‘ , 
The Characters, Qualities, and Forms of the feveral Creatures are 
defcribed, the Names by which they are commonly known, as well as thofe by 
which Authors, who have written on the Subjedt, have called them are explained : 
And each is reduced to the CLASS to which it naturally belongs. 
Illuftrated with Figures. 
By JOHN HILL, M. D. 
Acad. Reg. Scient. Burdig. &C. Soc. 
LONDON: 
Printed for Thomas Osborne, in Grafs-Inn . 
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MDCCLII. 
