356 POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

There is so much of interest and instruction to be derived
from the study of the Natural History of the Bible, as, in-
deed, from every department of Nature, inseparable as it is
from the study and perception of the attributes of the great
Creator of Nature, that it is hoped this unpretending little
volume will prove useful to many who have hitherto read
the Bible without comprehending a great portion of its
contents, for want of some information on this subject.
The young student of Nature will here see grouped, in a
small compass, all those animals to which any reference is
made by the sacred writers; and though doubts exist as to
the identity of some species, which may possibly be cleared
up by future discoveries, and a mystery hangs over others
which may never be swept away; this does not lessen the
value of the information already gained, or make it less
incumbent upon us to study, with an earnest mind and
a loving heart, those manifestations of the Deity which
He has spread around us, from the earliest times, by His
creative power.