PREFACE. 



It may be needful here to state, that a considerable 

 portion of the following work has already been before 

 the public, in a small monthly Periodical, entitled, 

 * Light from the West, or the Cornish Parochial 

 Visitor,* which was commenced in January, 1832. 

 During the latter part of this year, the first number 

 of the Christian Naturalist appeared in that work. 

 The favorable manner in which the series of papers 

 under that head were received by its numerous 

 readers, have now led to their re-publication. Being, 

 however, now presented to a more general class, some 

 pains have been taken by the Author to submit his 

 observations to the public in the form that might be 

 most useful and attractive ; and with this view some 

 alterations and corrections have been made, and many 

 additions. A different arrangement has also bee* 

 adopted. In agreement with the Calendar of Nature, 



