. Miscellanies [microform]. Northwest Passage; Natural history; Nord-Ouest, Passage du; Sciences naturelles. [ ^H ] hv the rcuKf, on accou'.it of the term^ cmnhn-eil ; wliilfl: I prc- miic Llrat I do iiot require elegance, bi'.t only that the c\- prelfions fliould be clear, and ncit liable to be tnlfunderflood. But though I i\o uot inliil upon clailical latlnity, yet every reader liath a right to expert, that in a dead language nu new word-; ihould be introJuctd, or eilablifned terms ufed, in a man- ner for which proper authority cannot be produced. I Ihall not have mueli trouble in citing luc
. Miscellanies [microform]. Northwest Passage; Natural history; Nord-Ouest, Passage du; Sciences naturelles. [ ^H ] hv the rcuKf, on accou'.it of the term^ cmnhn-eil ; wliilfl: I prc- miic Llrat I do iiot require elegance, bi'.t only that the c\- prelfions fliould be clear, and ncit liable to be tnlfunderflood. But though I i\o uot inliil upon clailical latlnity, yet every reader liath a right to expert, that in a dead language nu new word-; ihould be introJuctd, or eilablifned terms ufed, in a man- ner for which proper authority cannot be produced. I Ihall not have mueli trouble in citing luch inftances from the SvAema Naturcr, and Fauna Succica, as every page almofl where there are two lines of defcription, aftords them. Linn;cus thus fpeaks of the woodcock : " Scolopax [r;////r:A7] habitat in cif^propricUis loch, volitans per " nodes quafi \hm Jin'ffiffif/ja/ii in ipfo acre, &; The fpecilic dltlerence aliigncd to this bird is ru/lIcoU, wiilch can only mean, that it frequents the country; but is not this ap- plicable to birds out of a hundred r I .inniT?us therefore intends to convey fome other idea to his reader; but what that may be I muft own I cannot comprehend. Gefncr indeed conceives the woodcock to be the Perdix ruflica of the antients; but very erroneoufly, his authority being probably the following lines from Martial : Rufrica fim, an perdix, quid refert, fifapor hkm ejl? Carior eft perdix, fic fapit ilia magis. Now by another epigram of Martial's it appears that the perdix was a very fcarce bird in Italy: Ponitur Aufoniis avis luce â " rarifiima menfis, Hanc In lautorum muudere, ficpe foles. But without entering into a critical difcuHion what birds were termed by the antients perdix, and rujVica, it is plain by this *⢠Sc. the perdix. citation,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrat
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