

PREFACE. 



Eternal truth ! how wondrous is thy power, 

 How vain the human mind to fully trace 

 All the deep mysteries that hover o'er 

 The hidden depths of thy profound embrace. 



THE present work is intended to furnish a general 

 view of the leading appearances of Physical Nature the 

 economy of the heavens and the earth : deduced from 

 Milner's "Gallery of Nature," Mantell's "Medals of 

 Creation," and other authentic sources. 



Geology and Astronomy are, in truth, sciences 

 whose discoveries have realized the wildest imaginings 

 of the poet, and whose realities infinitely surpass, in 

 grandeur and sublimity, the most imposing fictions of 

 romance. 



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