む A MODERN SYSTEM O F NATURAL HISTORY. CONTAINING Accurate Descriptions, and faithful Histories, OF ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, and MINERALS. Together with Their Properties, and various Ufes in MEDICINE, MECHANICS, MANUFACTURES, &c. Illuftrated With a great Variety of COPPER-PLATES, accurately drawn from Nature, and beautifully engraved. By the Rev. SAMUEL WARD, Vicar of Cotterstock, cum Glapthorne, Northamp tonshire; and others. VOL. IX. The great Creator did not bestow fo much Curiofity and Workmanship up ́n his Creatures to be looked upon with a careless incurious Eye. Derham's Phyf. Theol. Book xi. LONDON: Printed for F. NEWBERY, the Corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, Ludgate-ftreet. 1776. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES. ILLUSTRTED With a great Variety of COPPER-PLATES, ac- By the Rev. SAMUEL WARD, VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for F. NEWBERY, the Corner of St. |