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Having given a sketch of our minerals, vegetables, and quadrupeds, and being led by a proud theory to make a comparison of the latter with those of Europe, and to extend it to the man of America, both aboriginal and emigrant, I will proceed to the remaining articles comprehended under the present query.

Between ninety and an hundred of our birds have been described by Catesby. His drawings are better as to form and attitude, than colouring, which is generally too high. They are the following:

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than South. If he was mistaken then as to the former, he may be so as to the latter. The glimmerings which reach us from South America enable us only to see that its inhabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery, superstition, and igWhenever they shall be able to rise under this weight, and to show themselves to the rest of the world, they will probably show they are iike the rest of the world. We have not yet sufficient evidence that there are more lakes and fogs in South America than in other parts of the earth. As little do we know what would be their operation on the mind of man. That coun try has been visited by Spaniards and Portuguese chiefly, and almost exclusively. These, going from a country of the old world remarkably dry in its soil and climate, fancied there were more lakes and fogs in South America than in Europe. An inhabitant of Ireland, Sweden, or Finland would have formed the contrary opinion. Had South America then been discovered and settled by a people from a fenny country, it would probably have been represented as much drier than the old world. A patient pursuit of facts, and cautious combination and comparison of them, is the drudgery to which man is subjected by his Maker, if he wishes to attain sure knowledge.

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BIRDS OF VIRGINIA.

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Sitta Europea

Alcedo alcyon,
Certhia pinus,
Trochilus colubris,
Anas Canadensis,
Anas bucephala
Anas rustica,
Anas discors,
Anas discors 6,
Anas sponsa,

Mergus cucullatus,
Columbus podiceps,
Ardea He odias,
Ardea violacea,
Ardea cærulea,
Ardea virescens,
Ardea æquinoctialis

Tantalus loculator,
Tantalus alber,

Tantalus fuscus,
Charadrius vociferus,

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