The Beaver, and its Habitations - The Mole - The Frog - The Toad - The Rhinoceros - Crocodiles and Alligators - Fossil Crocodile - The Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus - The Marmot, or Mountain Rat, of Switzerland.

Nature's unnumber'd family combine

In one beneficent, one vast design ;

E'en from inanimates to breathing man,A heaven-conceiv'd, heaven-executed plan ;

Onward, from those who soar or lowly creep,

The wholesome equipoise through all to keep,

As faithful agents in earth, sea, and air,

The lower world to watch with constant care;

Her due proportion wisely to conserve :A wondrous trust, from which they never swerve. Pratt

It would not be consistent with the plan of this work to embrace the whole natural history of the animal and vegetable kingdom. This is a Book of Curiosities ; and it is our intention to present the reader with a sketch of the most remark-able things in the universe : our present subject, therefore, being curiosities respecting animals, we shall commence with.