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really due to the action of comparatively well-known 

 and simple causes, I shall have attained my present 

 purpose, which has been to extend the interest so 

 generally felt in the more striking facts of natural 

 history to a large class of curious but much neglected 

 details ; and to further, in however slight a degree, 

 our knowledge of the subjection of the phenomena of 

 life to the "Reign of Law." 



