The Cabinet, Vol. 1 of 2: Or a Natural History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes and Insects, Illustrated With Copperplates, Exhibiting Figures of Above Seven Hundred Animals (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Cabinet, Vol. 1 of 2: Or a Natural History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes and Insects, Illustrated With Copperplates, Exhibiting Figures of Above Seven Hundred Animals

Of nature, objeéts that are endowed with motion and life are more immediately re commended to the notice of man. Attention is fooner attraéted to the filh that fwims in the water, than to the nature of the fluid. The elegance, the fplendour, and the vivacity of the feathered race are (till more attractive but, with the clafs of quadrupeds, where man finds his fieadiell friends, and molt formidable enemies, he is pe culiarly intercfied. At the head of this clai's, and a.

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