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in that of man. The fourth chapter contains an instance of the growth 

 of evil, and the consequent exclusion from a better state; and the fifth, 

 a renunciation of the present existence, or means for that better state, or 

 true end. These two examples are figurative of the ultimate division of 

 the human race. 



Eocks and mountains are comparatively everlasting, their duration not 

 being limited to thousands, or to hundreds of thousands of years, and 

 the end being indefinite; and so, too, a tree, when it exists for six 

 thousand years or upwards, is, as it were, everlasting when compared with 

 an animal, the former being to the latter as means to an end. The end 

 of man was not declared when he was created, but by the change before 

 noticed his existence was limited, and ordained as the means to an end, 

 the former being still of great length. But after the deluge the means 

 were shortened, and in the time of Moses were limited to the present 

 general duration. The evil in the world is generally occasioned by 

 regarding, using, developing, or exalting the means as an end; this process 

 being wholly opposed to the universal law by which the means are suc- 

 cessively shortened, diminished, and degraded, and finally disappear in the 

 end. 



The second epoch of the existence of man was now about to come to 

 an end, and its conclusion prefigures that of the great epoch, or of the 

 seventh day, or of the whole time of man upon earth, and is a warning 

 to man that sin, or the usage of this world or of anything in it as an end 

 and not as a means to the next world, will cut him off from all grati- 

 fication, all sin ending in a severance between this period and that of 

 eternal happiness. 



(To be continued.) 



FISH NOTES. 



BY W. 



"Blessings on the fishing-boat." 



Tadpole Fish, (Raniceps trifurcatus.) — On December 5th., 1856, a small 

 specimen of this rarity was taken, by hook, off Macduff, in twenty fathoms 

 of water, on rocky bottom. 



Pogge, (Aspidophorus Europaeus.) — A somewhat mutilated individual was 

 taken from a haddock's stomach, on January 12th. The haddock was 

 caught about four miles off, on muddy bottom. 



Sandy Bay, (Raia spinosa.) — This Ray has not been previously noticed 

 in the Moray Frith. Fortunately one made its debut on January 17th., 

 and produced a great sensation, at least as far as regards the water. What 

 a joy in the finding and indentifying of every new specimen ! 



