ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE species of work to which this volume be- 

 longs, while it is not confined to the student of 

 Natural History, but is addressed to all classes 

 of readers, appears to me to be eminently useful 

 in promoting that general acquaintance with 

 Nature, which is so highly to be desired, and 

 for which a taste has of late been strongly and 

 growingly evinced. Many works there are, 

 which lead us incidentally into the country, or 

 which, treating on the aspects and progress of 

 the Seasons, mix up with them a variety of 

 other matters, feasts, fasts, saints, and sundries ; 

 but a work has long been wanted to realize the 

 beau ideal of a book of the Seasons, present- 

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