CHARACTER OP HUBER. 59 



valuable of our senses, what resources we have still within 

 ourselves, and leads us to bestow more attention upon the 

 cultivation of those faculties which are left to us, so as to 

 render them the more efficient by the greater call upon them 

 for exertion.* 



MRS. c. 



I must join my thanks, Mrs. Fortescue, to those of your 

 young people for this account of Huber, whose character I 

 never before was sufficiently acquainted with. Milton's 

 touching; lines upon his blindness must be so familiar to you 

 all, that we will ask Esther to repeat them.f 



Esther recited them with much taste and feeling. 



HENRIETTA. 



But, not yet to forsake our favorite bees, look what num- 

 bers of them there are on that Coriopsis. 



MRS. c. 



Yes: do not you know that all the Composite (or Composite 

 flowers) are particular favorites of insects?^: The Dahlias, 

 when in bloom, are always covered with insects, and espe- 

 cially with bees, which you often see upon the flower, either 

 so laden or so stupified as to be almost unable to move. 



HENRIETTA. 



Pray, how do you pronounce the name of that flower! 



MRS. c. 

 Usage admits of our saying Dalia; but, independent of that 



procuring him a hive of them. This was his last labor in behalf of 

 his old friends, to whom he had directed the researches of his life, 

 and to whom he owed his celebrity, and, in a great measure, his 

 happiness. The above account is mostly taken from De Candolle's 

 " Notice'* upon the life and writings of Huber. 



* The memory, one of the highest faculties of the mind, is always 

 most powerful in blind persons. 



t ' * With the year 



Seasons return; but not to me returns 



Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn," &c. 



\ Sir J. Smith. 



