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.. .... 604 606 ... ....... .. 618 620 ... .... .... 665 673 681 .... 684 716 .... 730 ... .. ... 732 ..... ... 796 816 ..... ... 822 .. .... 821 823 .... 823 836 842 844 846 .. 878 Muscles of the Human Body, Profile View 16 Muscles of the Human Body, Back View 18 Simon Brown.....

Blaise Pascal Edward Wortley Montague.

George Psalmanzar.

John Lewis Cardiac John Smeaton...

John Case.... 108. 108 Whale Fishery.

William Huntington..

The Ornithorhyncus Paradoxus...

Terrible Adventure with a Shark. 128 164 .. .. 198 208 ... ......... 110 The Sea Serpent. 218 110 Bird Catcher at St. Kilda. 260 112 The Ant-Eater.... 290 112 Ingenuity of the Spider... 314 .. 114 The Bannian Tree.... 372 ...

Thomas Topham.

Zeuxis...

Nicholas Pesce....

Paul Scarron.

Samuel Bisset.. 114 The Peak Cavern.. 410 116 King Solomon's Ancient City of Baalbec. 536 116 Pompey's Pillar.. 548 118 The Great Wall of China. 578 118 Ancient Method of Storming a Fort.... 616 Maria Galtana Agnesi. 122 Water Spouts........

Anna Maria Schurman.

Richard Savage. 122 Great Bell of Moscow..

INTRODUCTION It was well observed by Lord Bacon, that "It would much conduce to the magnanimity and honour of man, if a collection were made of the extraordinaries of human nature, principally out of the reports of history; that is, what is the last and highest pitch to which man's nature, of itself, hath ever reached, in all the perfection of mind and body. If the wonders of human nature, and virtues as well of mind as of body, were collected into a volume, they might serve as a calendar of human triumphs." The present work not only embraces the Curiosities of human nature, but of Nature and Art in general, as well as Science and Literature. Surrounded with wonders, and lost in admiration, the inquisitive mind of man is ever anxious to know the hidden springs that put these wonders in motion; he eagerly inquires for some one to take him by the hand and explain to him the curiosities of the universe. And though the works of nature are great, and past finding out, and we cannot arrive at the perfection of science, nor discover the secret impulses which nature obeys, yet can we by reading, study, and investigation dissipate much of the darkness in which we are enveloped, and dive far beyond the surface of this multifarious scene of things. The noblest employment of the human understanding is to contemplate the works of the great Creator of the boundless universe, and to trace the marks of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness throughout the whole.