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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 fubje�'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' mu? 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 firu�lion, feek'the mifcellaneous and general.
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