but has left it ftill on the other parts. North-America has always been more acceffible to ftrangers than South. If he was miftaken then as to the former, he may be fo as to the latter. The glimmerings which reach us from South-America enable us only to fee that its inhabitants are held under the accumulated preiTure of flavery, fuperftition and ignorance. When- ever they Ihall be able to rife under this weight, and to (how themfelves to the reft of the world, they will probably (how they are like the reft of the world. We have nor yet fufficient 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 country has been vifited by Spaniards and Portuguefe chiefly, and almoft exclufively.
Thefe, going from a country of the old world remarkably dry in its foil 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 difcovered and fettled by a people from a fenny country, it would probably have been rcprefented as much drier than the old world. A patient purfuit of fails, and cautious combination and comparilon of them, is the drudgery to which man is fub- jcAed by his Maker, if he wilhcs to attain fure knowledge.
and to extend it to the man of America, both aboriginal and emigrant, I will proceed to the remaining articles compre- hended under the prefent query.
Between ninety and an hundred of our birds have been defcribed by Catefby.