Arctic Zoology, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Excerpt from Arctic Zoology, Vol. 1

Beyond the' meafure val't bf thought, The works, the wizard t1me hath wrought! The Gaul, it's held of antique Rory, Saw Britain link'd to his now adverfe lirand; No'fea between, nor cliff fublime and hoary, He pafs'd with unwet feet through all our land. To the blown Baltic then, they fay, The wild waves found another way. £97. Collin s's Ode to Liberty.

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Excerpt from Arctic Zoology, Vol. 1

This Work was begun a great number of years past, when the empire of Great Britain was entire, and possessed the northern part of the New World with envied splendor. At that period I formed a design of collecting materials for a partial History of its Animals; and with true pains, by various correspondencies, made far greater progress in my plan than my most sanguine expectations had framed. Above a century ago, an illustrious predecessor in the line 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 similar design. The gentleman alluded to was Francis Willughby, Esq; who died in 1672, on the point of putting his design in 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 content myself to do, in a less perfect manner, from preserved specimens transmitted to me; and offer to the world their Natural History, taken from gentlemen or writers who have paid no small attention to their manners.

Let me repeat, that this Work was designed as a sketch of the Zoology of North America.

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