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 coloring which is generally too high. They are the following.
An inhabitant of Ireland, Sweden, or Finland would have formed the contrary opinion. Had South America been diſcovered and ſettled by a people from a fenny country, it would probably have been repreſented as much dryer than the old world. A patient purſuit of facts, and cautious combination and compariſon of them, is the drudgery to which man is ſubject by his Maker, if he wiſhes to attain ſure knowledge.
