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HIGH-BllOWN FRITILLARY. 



PLATE XLIX. 



Argynnis Adippe, Fabricius. Duncan. 



" " OCHSENHEIMER. STEPHENS. 



Papilio Adippe, Linn^us. Harris. 



" " Lewin. Donovan. 



Acidalia Adippe, Hubner. 



It has been well observed, that all the best and highest enjoyments 

 of man are those which, coming as they do direct from the bounteous 

 hand of the Omnipotent Himself, are not purchaseable with money 

 or any other human commodity. Every aspect under which nature is 

 viewed throws light upon this remark, and gilds it with the unmistake- 

 able lustre of truth. Without philosophising on the connection between 

 mind and matter, upon an investigation into which, if we enter, the 

 result at its close will be that we shall find ourselves on the thresh- 

 hold at which we first stood, it is certain that mental enjoyments are 

 those of primary moment, and such as convey the highest satisfaction 

 to the intellectual man, to that part of man wliich even the heathen 

 philosopher perceived to be the man himself. Where can you buy the 

 feelings of the astronomer, or in what Australia discover a reward for 

 the successful mathematician? Where is the El Dorado that will 

 furnish a value which the gifted mechanist would exchange for his 

 sense of the widely extended benefits his fellow-men derive from the 

 years of his patient endeavours? Under what "Mountain of light" 

 shall you discover a hidden treasure, the finding of which shall equal 

 the exalted delight with which you will gaze from its summit on all 

 that lies between it and the surrounding horizon? What sublunary 

 pleasure can realize the depth of feeling with which you gaze up 

 into the vault of the firmament of Heaven? Was Solomon, "in all 

 his glory," arrayed like one of the "lilies of the field?" What pearls 

 do the "dark unfathomed caves" of the ocean conceal that can com- 

 pare with the view of the ocean itself? AVhat sordid motive can 

 furnish the thrill of devoted loyalty? What price will purchase peace 



