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that not unfrequently instead of an increase in num- 

 ber the reverse is presented ; and therefore as might be 

 imagined these divisions have not a wider distribution 

 than the division preceding each respectively. It is, 

 however, interesting to observe that these instances 

 occur generally, or perhaps exclusively, where Nature 

 displays a transit from the animal to the vegetable 

 kingdom, or from one class of animals to another : 

 the Zoophytes, — Cetacea, reptiles, the bats, are some 

 examples of this fact ; but we proceed no further with 

 this digression, and now take our leave of the general 

 principles and laws of Animal Geography ; bearing 

 in mind that they exhibit to us the wonderful adap- 

 tation of the different parts of the Creation ; and the 

 wise discipline which pervades the whole Machine, 

 and assigns all parts to the purposes for which they 

 were created. 



London. Philophysicus. 



SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 



Resumed, from page 139, and concluded. 



For some time after the return of Coleridge from Germany, he 

 resided at Keswick, in Cumberland, where he occupied himself 

 principally in study. 



In the spring of 1802, he undertook the political and literary 

 department of the " Morning Post." By quoting his own obser- 

 vations on this circumstance some of his political opinions will 

 be developed ; and the confession made by himself as to the result 

 of his labours will be manifested. 



" Soon after my return from Germany I was solicited to under- 

 take the literary and political department in the Morning Post ; 

 and I acceded to the proposal on the condition, that the paper 

 should thenceforwards be conducted on certain fixed and an- 

 nounced principles, and that I should be neither obliged or re- 

 quested to deviate from them in favor of any party or any event. 

 In consequence, that Journal became and for many years continued 

 anti-mmisterial indeed, yet with a very qualified approbation of 

 the opposition, and with far greater earnestness and zeal both anti- 

 jacobin and anti-gallican. To tliis hour I cannot find reason to 

 approve of the first war either in its commencement or its conduct. 



