Xll PREFACE. 



on the land — most perfect contrivances and artistic 

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

 Great Artificer who made man himself. 



FEANK BUCKLAND. 



37, Albany Street^ BegenVs Parh 

 nth December, 1880. 



;ic*- The lamented death of Mr. Frank Bnckland, 

 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 possible that some few errata may 

 remain uncorrected in the following pages. 



28i/i December, 1880. 



