Catesby, M. 1771. The Natural History of Carolina

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TO HER
ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE
PRINCESS of WALES.
MA DAM,
SOME of the mod wonderful Productions of America have now the
Honour to lay themfelves at the Feet of your ROYAL HIGHNESS ;
Things new and ftrange to the Inhabitants of this Side of the Globe 5
and which muft therefore neceflarily excite, in Minds of infinitely lefg
Difcernment and Piety than that of your ROYAL HIGHNESS, exalted and
religious Sentiments of the Power, Wifdom, and Goodnefs of that Almighty Being
who not only formed the Univerfe, but has adorned every Part of it with an incon.»
ceivable Variety of Beauty and Magnificence.
It was in Obedience to the Commands of our late mofl Gracious QUEEN, who
condefcended to over-look and approve my Drawings of the mod extraordinary Cu,
riofities of Nature obfervable in Carolina, and the adjacent Countries fubject to the
Crown of Great Britain, that I applied myfelf to compile a Natural Hiflory of
thofe Parts of the World >, and Her Majesty was pleafed to take the Firft Volume,
of this Work under Her own Royal Patronage,
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