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1、CuriousCreaturesinZoologybyJohnAshtonArmentBiologicalPressThisElectronicPublicationisareprintofJohnAshtonÕsCuriousCreaturesinZoology.ThiseditionwasoriginallypublishedbyCassellPublishinginNewYork.TheNewYorkeditiondoesnotshowacopyrightdate,buttheLondoneditionwaspublishedin18
2、90.Thecurrentpublisherhasattemptedtoretainallpertinenttextandfigures,butformatchangeswerenecessary.Becausepaginationhaschanged,textreferenceswillnotnecessarilyrefertospecificpagesinthiselectronicdocument.InternallinkshavebeencreatedfortheTableofContentsandtheIndex.Ifyouare
3、viewingthisdocumentwithAdobeAcrobatReader¨,justclickonthelinks.Thiselectronicreprintis©2000byArmentBiologicalPress.Theoriginaltextisinthepublicdomain,howeverallchanges,formattingandpresentationofthispublicationarecopyrightedbythecurrentpublisher.ISBN1-930585-05-5ArmentBiol
4、ogicalPressLandisville,PAwww.herper.com/ebooks/Preface“TRAVELLERSseestrangethings,”moreespeciallywhentheirwritingabout,ordelineationof,themisnotputunderthemicroscopeofmodernscientificexamination.Ourancestorswerecontentwithwhatwasgiventhem,andbeing,asarule,astay-at-homerace
5、,theycouldnotconfutethestoriestheyreadinbooks.Thatageoffaithmusthavehaditscomforts,fornomancoulddenythetruthofwhathewastold.Butnowthatmoderntravelhassubduedtheglobe,andinquisitivestrangershavepokedtheirnosesintoeveryportionoftheworld,“theoldorderchangeth,givingplacetonew,”
6、and,gradually,theoldstoriesareforgotten.Itistorescuesomeofthemfromtheoblivionintowhichtheywerefastfalling,thatIhavewritten,orcompiled,thisbook.Isaycompiledit,forIamfonderoflettingoldauthorstelltheirstoriesintheirold-fashionedlanguage,thantoparaphraseit,andusurpthecreditoft
7、heirwritings,asistoomuchthemodenow-a-days.ItisnotgiventoeveryonetobeabletoconsulttheoldNaturalists;and,besides,mostofthemarewritteninLatin,andtoreadthemthroughispartlyunprofitablework,astheycopysolargelyonefromanother.But,forthegeneralreader,selectionscanbemade,and,ifassis
8、tedbyaccuratereproductionsoftheveryquaintwoodengravings,abookmaybeproducedwhich,Iventuret
