Identifier: travelstodiscov05bruc (find matches)
Title: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes
Year: 1790 (1790s)
Authors: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 Natural history Explorers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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on, a lift or inventory (for theycould give no more) of all my birds and beafts were pub-lifhed before I was well got to England. From what I have feen of the performances of the artiftsemployed by the cabinet, I do not think that they have an-ticipated in any fhape the merit of my drawings, efpeciallyin birds and in plants ; to fay nothing milder of them, theyare in both articles infamous; the birds are fo diffimilar fromthe truth, that the names of them are very neceffarily wroteunder, or over them, for fear of the old miftake of takingthem for fomething elfe. I condefcend upon the B.rkoom as aproof of this. I gave a very fine fpecimen of this bird ingreat prefervation to the Kings collection ; and though Imewed them the original, they had not genius enough tomake a representation that could with any degree of cer-tainty be promifed upon for a guefs. When I was atParis, they had a woman, who, in place of any merit, atleaft that i could judge of, was protected, as they faid, by 3 the
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