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Title: The naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lord, John Keast, 1818-1872
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London, R. Bentley
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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on the wingsof the breeze ? Why all the prodigal variety ofstrange forms crowding the sea, forms morewonderful than the poets wildest dreams everpictured ? Who can tell ? END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON PRINTED BT SPOTTISWOODE ASD CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES 3 9088 00048 6506 ill IP
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THE KETTLE PALLS: A SALMON LEAP ON THE UPPER COLIMIUA IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. I. LONDON:RICHAED BENTLEY, NEW BUELINGTON STREET, PUBLISHER IN OEDIXAEY TO HER MAJESTY.1866. /^r^^ C iss^^T PREFACE. Many interestino^ and useful works have beenalready published relating to the Colonies ofVancouver Island and British Columbia, which,however, contain Mttle if any information onthe subject of their Natural Histoiy. This missing link I venture in some measureto supply. But The Naturalist in VancouverIsland and British Columbia is not intended tobe a book on Natural History merely; neitherdoes the Author desire to Aveary his reader Avithtedious descriptions of genera and species. Com-parative anatomy and physiology can be acquiredat home, but habits are only discoverable bythose who devote themselves to the rough though VOL. I. -a VI PREFACE. pleasant life of a wanderer, or by the actualobservation of a careful investigator. In the following pages, the Author has pur-posely avoided any definite s

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