J 6 NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF NORTH LANCASHIRE. 



I got to the head of the valley, just as the shades of evening were silently- 

 stealing over the landscape. Every sound was hushed, save the murmuring 

 of the little brook, and the sighing of the gentle breeze, as it swept over 

 the heath and brake. It was a fitting time and place for the mind to hold 

 communion with its Maker, and realize those lofty feelings so beautifully 

 alluded to, in the following lines : — 



"Trees, tind flowers, and streams, 

 Are social and benevolent; and he 

 Who oft communetb in their language pure, 

 Eoaming among them at the close of day, 

 Shall find, like him who Eden's garden drcst, 

 His Maker there, to teach liis listening heart." 



Septemher SOth, 1854. 



The Heart's Proper Element; or, How to Keep a Healthy Pulse. By William 

 KiDD, of Hammersmith. London : Groombridge and Sons. Price Is. 



Mr. Kidd may select what title he pleases for his elegant little Book; but 

 Nature will show herself, and without intending to write directly upon 

 Natural History, his inherent love for that healthy amusement, most valu- 

 able for both body and mind, will peep out. In the fifth chapter of this 

 little work, when speaking of the " beautiful harmonies of our globe," he 

 thus writes: "other tribes, despising vegetables, are adapted to the elements; 

 to day, to night, to tempests, and to the different parts of the globe. The 

 eagle confides her nest to the rock, ^\%ich is lost in the cloud. The ostrich, 

 to the burning sands of the desert; and the rose colored flamingo, to the 

 mud of the southern ocean. The white bird of the tropics, and the black 

 man-of-war bird, delight to sweep in company over the expansive bosom of 

 the ocean ; to behold, from the lofty regions of the atmosphere, the fleets of 

 India sailing beneath them, and to encircle the globe from east to west, 

 rivalling in rapidity the course of the sun himself. In the same latitude, 

 the turtle-dove, and the parrot, (less daring,) travel only from island to 

 island, with their young ones in their irain ; picking up in their forests, the 

 seeds of the spice-trees, which they shake down from branch to branch. 

 While these birds preserve an equal temperature under the same latitudes, 

 others find it by following the same meridian. Long triangles of wild- 

 geese and swans go and come, every year, from south to north, stopping 



