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insect world into life and motion, than he prepares 
his tackle, and commences sport. His exercise is 
attended with a combination of pleasures. He quits 
the beaten path and the dusty road, and wanders, as 
fancy leads, ‘ through woods, and lanes, and coppice 
green.” He admires nature as a whole, as well as 
in detail. He reposes, in the heat of the day, beneath 
the shade; and returning to his frugal board, re- 
freshed in mind, and invigorated by health, partakes 
of what is spread before him with a relish and an 
enjoyment unknown to the indolent. It is delight- 
ful to read with what enthusiasm the amiable and 
excellent author of the Lepidontera Britannica speaks 
of his youthful entomological excursions. “ I have 
diligently examined,” says Mr. Haworth, “ many 
parts of England personally, and usually on foot 
and alone; but sometimes accompanied by pe- 
destrian friends of congenial sentiments and taste. 
Industriously have we sought, and never once in 
vain, a great variety of woods and lawns, hills and 
vales, marshes and fens ; one summer only, travelling, 
in various journeys, not fewer than a thousand miles, 
in spite of heat and cold, wet and drought, and 
other concomitant impediments.” (Lep. Brit. Pre- 
face, x.) 
(72.) How frequently do we hear valetudinarians 
express a repugnance to exercise, particularly in 
country situations, because they have no object to 
take them abroad! ‘They are obliged, forsooth, to 
walk for the mere sake of walking; while all those 
pleasurable feelings, which physicians tell us are so 
essential to the full benefit of exercise, are destroyed 
by the consciousness of performing a task. , Could 
