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litary winter's walk, even along a dull straight 

 high ditch, can supply for both eyes and thoughts. 



" Besides all these, you, my little botanist, might 

 have another endless subject for examination in 

 our deciduous trees, on many of which you will 

 find that, unlike those of tropical climates, the 

 young shoots, leaves and flowers are formed in 

 autumn, and cradled up in scaly buds, where 

 they are secure from frost, till the following 

 spring. 



* ' Indeed, the comparisons you must be naturally 

 induced to make between your two countries, 

 might supply you with amusing and useful occu- 

 pation ; and the result will be, that in each you 

 will discover how peculiarly every creature and 

 every vegetable is adapted to the country where 

 it has been placed." 



6/i, Sunday.* I asked my uncle this morn- 

 ing, why Joseph said that every shepherd was 

 an abomination to an Egyptian ; and also, why 

 Joseph expected, that t when Pharaoh was in- 

 formed that his father and brethren were shep- 

 herds, he would order them to dwell in the land 

 of Goshen ? 



" In the first place," said he, " it is supposed 

 that Egypt had been invaded and subdued by a 

 tribe of warlike shepherds from Arabia, called 

 Cushites, or sons of Gush. They were also called 



