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the eastern horizon j to see the descending sun robing himself in 

 burnished clouds, as if these were the gathering glories of the 

 divine throne ; to find in the clear evening of winter our 

 chamber studded with countless gems of living light ; to feel 

 that &quot; we are never less alone than when alone ; &quot; to make even 

 the stillness and solitude of the country eloquent ; and above all, 

 in the beauty of every object which presents itself to our senses, 

 and in the unbought provision which sustains, and comforts, and 

 fills with joy, the countless multitudes of living existences which 

 people the land, the water, the air, every where to repletion, to 

 see the radiant tokens of an infinite and inexhaustible benefi 

 cence, as they roll by us and around us in one ceaseless flood ; 

 and in a clear and bright day of summer, to stand out in the 

 midst of this resplendent creation, circled by an horizon which 

 continually retreats from our advances, holding its distance 

 undirninished, and with the broad and deep blue arches of 

 heaven over us, whose depths no human imagination can fathom ; 

 to perceive this glorious temple all instinct with the presence of 

 the Divinity, and to feel, amidst all this, the brain growing dizzy 

 with wonder, and the heart swelling with an adoration and a 

 holy joy, absolutely incapable of utterance ; this it is to love 

 the country, and to make it. not the home of the person only, but 

 of the soul. 



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I must not quit the subject of agricultural education without 

 adverting to some other institutions of great importance. The 

 first of these is the Veterinary College, near London. I believe 

 there is one of a similar character near Edinburgh ; but that I 

 have not visited. 



The object of this institution was to qualify persons, by the 

 study of comparative anatomy and physiology, and by oppor 

 tunities for witnessing hospital practice and investigating the 

 symptoms and phenomena of disease in the lower animals, to 

 practise veterinary surgery and medicine ; and to do what can 

 be done, by skill and science, for the relief of the sufferings and 

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