"Omncs res creatse sunt divinJE sapientiffi et potentiae testes, diritise felicitatis 

 Immanoc : — ex haruin usu honitas Creatoris ; ex pulchritudine xapientia Domini ; 

 ex CECononiii in conservatione, proportiono, renoratione, fotentia majestatis 

 elucct. Eanun itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper lestimata; 

 k vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — Linn^cs. 



"Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ourrir les veux pour 

 voir qu'elle est le chef-d'eeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tciit toutes SOS operations." — Bklcksek, Thcorie du Systime Animal, Leyden, 

 1707. 



The sylvan powers 



Obey our sunmions ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heatli-flower come not empty-handed, 



But .scatter round ten thousand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep : the Naiad.* too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide : the frozen poles, 



Wicre peril waits the bold adventurer's tread. 



The burning s;inds of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And p.iy tlioir clicorful tribute. 



J. Tavlor, Nonoich, 1818. 



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LERI (i fLAM'MA.M. 



