[Gutenberg 57962] • Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.

Excerpt from Select Specimens of Natural History, Vol. 6: Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia

Out this hii'cory, toleave nothing unex plained that may affiit the reader in underfiand ing the different fubjee'cs that have been treated in the courfe of it, Ithink myfelf obliged to fay a few words concerning the manner of ar ranging this Appendix. With regard to the Natural Hifiory, it' mufl occur to every one, that, however numerous and refpectable they may be who have dedicated themfelves entirely to this ftudy, they bear but a very {mall pro bortion to thofe who, for amufementi or in firuelion, feek'the mifcellaneous and general.

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