Xll PEEFACE. 



on tlie land — most perfect contrivances and artistic 

 designs, not made by tlie hands of man, but by tlie 

 Great Artificer who made man himself. 



FKANK BUCKLAND. 



37, Alhany Street, BegenVs Parle 

 nth December, 1880. 



,Y,^,[: The lamented death of Mr. Frank Biickland, 

 two days after the date of the foregoing preface — which 

 contains nearly, if not quite, the last words he ever 

 wrote — and a few days before the completion of the 

 book, renders it j)Ossible that some few errata may 

 remain uncorrected in the following pages. 



28th December, 1880. 



