Excerpt from The Powers of the Creator Displayed in the Creation, or Observations on Life Amidst the Various Forms of the Humbler Tribes of Animated Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: With Practical Comments and Illustrations; (Posthumous Volume), Comprehending Forty-Six Plates During the time in which the first volume Of this work, published in 1851, was passing through the press, its estimable author was in a very delicate state of health. So reduced, indeed, was he by a lingering illness, that he felt himself unequal to the task of compiling an Analytical Index, according to the plan which he had followed in the two volumes on rare and remarkable animals OF scotland and a few weeks after the publication of the volume, his disease terminated fatally. 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.