This is illustrated Eccentricities of the Animal Creation .. Curious creatures of Animal Life have been objects of interest to mankind in all ages and countries; the universality of which may be traced to that feeling which makes the whole world kin. It has been remarked with emphatic truth by a popular writer, that we have in the Bible and in the engraven and pictorial records the earliest evidence of the attention paid to Natural History in general. The `navy of Tarshish` contributed to the wisdom of him who not only `spake of the trees from the cedar of Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall,` but `also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes,` to say nothing of numerous other passages showing the progress that zoological knowledge had already made.
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