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men belonging to it. Ale-houses have been 

 altogether abandoned sums of money have 

 been deposited in Savings' Banks ; places of 

 worship are attended, and the Author can look 

 on the good, honest faces of his audience with 

 the greatest gratification. 



If these Lectures, therefore, have amused 

 and instructed these fishermen, he trusts that 

 they may also amuse and instruct others, es- 

 pecially the young, to whom the study of 

 natural history not only offers an inexhaustible 

 fund of pleasing amusement, but it tends to 

 promote the love of the Creator for His good- 

 ness, to repose an implicit confidence in His 

 wisdom, and to see in everything around him 

 proofs of an all -wise and beneficent Providence. 

 He will then be ready to exclaim, 



" On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows ; 

 In every rill, a sweet instruction flows." 



EDWARD JESSE. 



16 Belgrave Place , Brighton, 

 May, 1863. 



