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The A u th o r ’s PREFACE.
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S E C O ISf D P A R T .
LA ‘S T year, when '1 piiblifhed the Firft Part of the Natural
Hiftory ef Norway*, concerning thé climate, thê air* and
the inanimate and vegetative prOdu&ions of that cbÀfitj'j î'l:
purpofed that the Second Part, which treatsiofAMmals, -fhould,
fry aR^efâbi:%é^Md®gtWi?thrit5r 'fetft: unforefeen accidents prevented
my intention : pattiouiartyi 'a^ dr^adFal-fire, whidh' kbtlt
fumed a great part -of »this -city* in My-'hOulS
was in imminent danger at the fkfte.#méy or-' bërng involved :in
this calamity, with all my manuscripts* &c._ but-, rby * the mercy
of God, the conflagration did not rëachfo far.
This1 àmdètrt, whiëh' might hàvè prevented riïê from fever
»cômjileâting! this w o tk :has: màdè me *Ifefs lerùpuloiis ‘in >jm*b-
lifliing this and other manuferipts, in collèâing and compiling
of which I had taken .jumoh pains y tho”L they might not be
fo accurate and corretâ as I could have wifhed.
; ryjs true, the poet
-------Nonum pnemantur m antvpn>
But it feems to me more .reasonable that every member, of the
republick of letters mould contribute, as far as lies in his power*
* The Airthoet pdbfâhed Ais work.intwütfnlhr^ast&ufrto -, the fitftvdts ^tinted
in .1752, but ,tlae till the ,year following, for
the reafons mentioned in the preface,
to