Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A General History of Birds, Vol. 1
From the above sources we have been enabled to give to the public a great variety of new, matter, as well as new subjects, and although this might possibly have been attained by means of con tinned Supplements, it would have required at least two of these as appendages to the former ones, which. Would have so embarrassed the whole, as to make it no easy matter to search after the complete history of any single subject wanted.
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