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the creatures of former epochs, but did not generally pass away until some 

 part of each was joined to or assimilated with another and succeeding race. 

 The study of Natural History would have comparatively but little interest 

 if creation was alike in all places, and in all times of the earth, instead 

 of being different in each region and in each epoch, the regions in some 

 degree representing the epochs; and in like manner the science of ethnology 

 owes part of its attractions to the human race, being in its variations the 

 counterpart of the inferior creatures. The general fact of each nation or 

 tribe being, before its passing away in part associated or incorporated with 

 another people, and thus ever continuing, is also a part of the universal 

 system, and is in unison with the morphology of plants, as will be further 

 noticed elsewhere. The first two thousand years of the epoch of man on 

 earth was represented by the earlier periods of creation, when there was a 

 comparative sameness over the globe; while the after-time of man represents 

 the latter period of creation, when the earth was diversified by mountains, 

 and by the ever-varying associations of plants and of animals. 



(To be continued.) 



SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY. 



BY 0. S. BOUND, ESQ. 



When we change the "city for the country air," the contrast is very 

 striking, and to him who has been compulsorily mixed up in the turmoil, 

 bustle, and din which attend a life of business in a great city, it is no 

 less agreeable; it is the difference between natural and artificial; and who 

 can be insensible to the delightful sensations produced by the transition? 

 First, you have a consciousness of emancipation from a thraldom which, 

 although it may be lucrative, cannot be considered either healthful or 

 agreeable. Every one, no doubt, has his tastes, and there are enjoyments 

 in every grade of life, in every position in which fate or fortune may place 

 us; but there is a degree of purity which we find in Nature unequalled, 

 of course, in any other state of existence. The idea of wealth is pleasurable 

 because it gives us the means of enjoying ourselves in any mode which 

 money can purchase; and this idea carries us through, and even imparts a 

 species of pleasure to the merest drudgery. This is of a negative cha- 

 racter, and merely so by reflection; but this cannot be the case with the 

 contemplation of the works of Nature. We admire the spruce artizan, dressed 

 in his Sunday's suit, and locking his door after his wife and train of little 

 ones, as they all issue forth for their evening's walk; we admire more the 

 crowds of such that throng the sunny sides of the streets; we do so because 

 it speaks of ease and comfort, and a relaxation from labour, and their own 



