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earth, and which now prove their Creator to be wonder- 

 ful in his works. We should have liked the distin- 

 guished philosopher, whose reference to them has just 

 been quoted, to have alluded distinctly to that almighty 

 and gracious God, whose works they are. 



The Lord of all, Himself through all diflFus'd, 

 Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. 

 Nature is but a name for an effect, 

 "Whose cause is God. He feeds the sacred fire 

 By which the mighty process is maintain'dj 

 Who sleeps not, is not weary ; in whose designs 

 No flaw deforms, no difficulty thwarts. 

 And whose beneficence no change exhausts. 



We may now glance at a large family — that of the 

 ammonites — an extinct genus, the name of which is 

 derived from their resemblance to the horns on the 

 statue of Jupiter Ammon. This family is very exten- 

 sive and remarkable. They greatly vary in size ; some 

 are only a line — the twelfth part of an inch ; but others 

 have been recently measured in the chalk near Mar- 

 gate, which exceeded four feet in diameter. All of 

 them, in the beauty, symmetry, and delicacy of their 

 structure, demand attention, revealing as they do the 

 power of Him, 



Who calls for things that are not, 

 And they come. 



