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THE

NATURAL HISTORY

OF

SELBORNE.

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"Omnia benè describere, quæ in hoc mundo, à Deo facta, aut Naturæ creatæ viribus elaborata fuerunt, opus est non unius hominis, nec unius ævi. Hinc Faune et Flore utilissimæ; hinc Monographi præstantissimi." -SCOPOLI ANN. HIST. NAT.

A NEW EDITION, WITH NOTES BY

THE REV. LEONARD JENYNS, M.A., F.L.S.,

ETC.

LONDON:

JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.

M.DCCC.XLIII.

PREFACE.

IN the Preface to the original edition of this work, the author states it as his desire "to lay before the public his idea of parochial history, which, he thinks, ought to consist of natural productions and occurrences as well as antiquities." This will be generally allowed at the present day, though Natural History was but little cultivated or attended to when the remark was made; and the constantly increasing interest which the public of late years has taken in the "Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne," is a sufficient confirmation of its truth. Indeed, so general now is the taste for this science become, and so deservedly esteemed is all that portion of White's work which relates to it, that in many of the later editions (and there have been several since his death) the Natural History has

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