240 APPENDIX. 



might be much better employed in your warm bed ? 

 How many disappointments are you to endure from 

 finding the wind suddenly shift into the wrong quarter, 

 after you had counted on a good night's sport ? How 

 many scoldings and curtain lectures from your wife ? 

 After all, when you have seen all the double stars, clus- 

 ters, nebulae, within reach of your instrument, together 

 with the planets, mountains in the moon, and spots on 

 the sun, &c. together with any curious terrestrial objects 

 about your habitation, and exhibited the same to your 

 friends, what remains but to dispatch your charmer up 

 to the garret, as of no further use ? You may, certainly, 

 on high festivals, transport it down again, in order to 

 convince people what a prodigiously scientific personage 

 you are, even to be able to possess such an instrument, 

 and to know the right end of it from the wrong one. 



A microscope, on the other hand, is available at all 

 times and seasons. There is no end to the number of 

 objects it may investigate. In the solitude of the most 

 dismal prison, you would only need a lamp, a microscope, 

 and some vegetable infusions, to furnish you with an 

 inexhaustible fund of amusement, totally independent of 

 other external objects. When employed in researches 

 on animal and vegetable physiology, where are your in- 

 vestigations to terminate ? Your life will not suffice 

 to study sufficiently the wonders of the minutiae of 

 natural history. 



The supreme Author of Nature has been pleased to 

 bestow so exquisite a degree of finishing upon 



