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alba ; others very easily, as the Anas. Some prefer the water, 

 as the Diver (Colymbus), and Grebe (Podiceps) ; others the 

 land, as the land birds, Tern (Sterna), Heron (ArdeaJ, Plover 

 (Charadrins), Oyster-catcher (HamadopusJ ; others prefer 

 flying, as the species which perch on trees ; others partly 

 standing, partly flying, as the Duck (Anas), Swan (Cygnus) ; 

 some during sleep conceal the head beneath the wing. On 

 break of day, all are in immediate action ; the singing birds sa- 

 lute the rising sun with their notes, — the Accipitres begin to 

 hunt — the Grallae to run about, — and the Palmipedes to retire 

 from the land into the sea. 



Shetch of the Life of A. H, L. Heeren, Knight of the North 

 Star and Guelphic Orders, Aulic Counsellor, and at pre- 

 sent Professor of History in the University of Gottingen, 



Arnold Herman Louis Heeren, the son of a Protestant 

 minister, and the oldest of four children, was born, on the 25th 

 October 1760, at Arbergen, a small village near Bremen. The 

 celebrated astronomer Olbers, who discovered Pallas and Vesta, 

 was born three years before, in the same village. Heeren''s ear- 

 lier years were passed in the country in solitude. He received 

 his first lessons in Latin and geometry from his father. M. 

 Hasselman, one of his masters, inspired him with a taste for 

 historical studies, by connecting with his lessons in the ^Eneid 

 the history of the earlier periods of Rome. The pupil also took 

 a great liking for Quintus Curtius ; but Robinson Crusoe made 

 him forget it all. He then read a translation of Milton's Paradise ' 

 Lost, whose descriptions of the combats of the good and bad 

 angels, and of the flight of Satan across the abyss, strongly 

 excited his imagination. 



In 1775, his father was called to Bremen in the quality of 

 minister of the cathedral. Then ceased the domestic education 

 of young Heeren : he was sent to the college of Bremen, and 

 there continued his Latin, Greek and Hebrew studies, but 

 made little progress. The only exercise by which he pro- 



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