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Excerpt from The Book of Nature, Vol. 2 of 3
Before we gird ourselves then to a critical inda gation into any particular part of the immense theatre which this study presents to us, it may be convenient to contemplate it upon that general survey which it is the object of such schemes or classifications to lay down; to travel over' it and mark its more prominent characters by a map, anterior to our entering upon the country itself. And such are the humble pretensions of the present lecture, which will merely attempt to place before you a brief sketch of zoology, in iegard to its bare such a sketch is the whole that our time, Will allow; yet if it be found faithful, it'will assuredly be found beneficial: for'if the outlines be correctly laid down, the picture may be filled up at our; leisure.
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