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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 LepidopteraBritannica 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 



