Excerpt from The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, 1831, Vol. 4 Hen we cast our e es around, and observe the comforts and enjoyments, principally derived from the productions of Nature, with which we are on ever side surrounded, it will naturally occur to us to consider w ence these severally are derived, and how they were brought into general use; whe ther they are indigenous to the country, or imported into it by the zeal of individuals. This becomes almost a matter of necessity at the present time; for scarcely a day passes, scarcely a single vessel arrives from foreign ports, which does not bring with it somethin new or strange, either to supp] the demands of luxury, already too far extended, or to ful l some useful end in the varied concerns of commerce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.