"Oranes res creatie sunt divinse sapientia: et potentiic testes, divitia; felicitatis 

 humante: — ex barum usu bonitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 8x oecononiia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis 

 elucet. Earuni itaque indagutio ab honiinibus sibi relictis senipei' sestiinata ; 

 k rere eruditis et sapientibus semper excidta; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fiiit." — Linn^us. 



"Quel que soit le priiicipe de la rie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

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

 tent toiites ses operations." — ^Biiucknek, Theorie du St/steme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



Tlie sylvan powers 



Obey our sunnnons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and thi'ow their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Xymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed. 



But scatter roimd ten thousand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep : the Naiads 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, 



Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread, 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay tlieir cheerful tribute. 



J. Tavi-or, Noruich, 1818. 



