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PREFAC E.

tained in the faid Natural History; which has the peculiar advantage over all other works of that nature, to be original in its figures, as well as descriptions.

The numbers added to the articles in the Generical Catalogue refer to the plates in the History where the fubjects are defcribed and figured.

CON

CONTENTS.

ESSAY I.

CHAP. I.

Of the Wisdom and Power of God in the Works of

ESSAY IV.

Characters of eminent Men, viz.

of the Duke of Richmond

-of Sir Hans Sloane

-of Dr. Mead

of Martin Folkes, Efq;

Catalogue of Sir Hans Sloane's museum

-121

122

124

126

128

Account of Hudson's Bay, and effects of cold there 34
An attempt to discover the caufe of the rifing of the
fea, and agitation of the leffer waters at Lisbon,
after the earthquake, November 1755

137

An idea of drawing and painting in water-colours 141 Brief inftructions for etching, or engraving on copper-plates with Aqua Fortis

158

ANECDOTES and ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS of fome

Subjects in Natural History, viz.

The bearded vulture

172

Of the porcupine

The peteril

The eider-cock

The fummer-duck

Maccaws

176

The whip-poor-will, or leffer goat-fucker

177

178 180

ib.

181

Monkies

196

The fpur-winged plover

The butcher-bird

Account of the Needles in the Isle of Wight

On the immersion of swallows,

Directions how to prepare birds preserved in spirits

for drawing.

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A Generical catalogue of Birds, &c. defcribed in Mr. Edwards' Natural History, in English and French

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