VI. PREFACE. 



the work has been divided into twelve chapters or 

 numbers, and for this purpose a union of such subjects 

 as would admit of this connexion, was necessary. 

 One of these, which forms the subject for July, under 

 the title of ' The Cornish Tors,' has been written 

 entirely for the present work. Those who are 

 acquainted with the Publication, for which this series 

 of papers was originally composed, will be fully aware 

 that a rapid sketch of the most striking phenomena 

 oif * the varied year,' was all that could be permitted 

 or attempted in a Periodical where brevity and 

 simplicity were indispensable. To have enlarged 

 these observations to a much greater extent than 

 has been now attempted, would have been inconsistent 

 with the plan of the writer, which was to set forth the 

 works of God as they display themselves upon a 

 grand scale, and only so far as they may be made 

 subservient to his word. Nothing more, therefore, 

 is here attempted, than to unroll a few of the broader 

 and more brilliant pages of the book of Nature, and 

 to read them by the mingled light of science and of 

 Revelation. 



Launcells, August^ 1838. 



