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and, besides that, beyond all imagination, how unspeakably 
small the eggs of these wasps, and the holes they make by 
the ovipositor in the shell of the egg, through which they 
shove their eggs. Just consider how, in all these trifles, a 
perfect Omnipotence reigns. But what does it matter to us, 
some light spirit may ask, that we know and think about 
this: could we get anything useful out of it? I reply—yYes, 
certainly! For, first, whenever we contemplate such mar- 
vellous wonders, the question forces itself upon us—Who can 
have brought these all so perfectly to pass, and ordered it so 
wonderfully? The answer can be nothing else but—Surely 
an Almighty God! Would. not this bear us up, and sustain 
us when wavering in the faith? In the second place, there 
flows from this truth that the wonders of God are not less 
unspeakably great in the smallest trifles than in the greatest 
phenomena of Nature; so that it may well be said— 
*“E/MINET IN MINIMIS MAXIMUS ILLE Devs.” 
Notes on the Macro-Lepidoptera of Liibeck. By ARTHUR 
W. Pau, Esq. 
On perusing the title of these few remarks, the mind of the 
reader will naturally revert to the Baltic shores—the home of 
our Saxon forefathers—and to the fine old town, the capital 
of the republic, bearing the same name, which some four 
hundred years ago held an important position amongst 
maritime cities, by virtue of its being at the head of the 
Hanseatic League ; and the Senate, composed of the deputies 
from eighty-nine free cities, which met within its walls, 
assembled to lay down the law,—certainly as far as commerce 
was concerned,—which was recognized by the sea-ports of 
Northern Germany and of the adjacent countries. That was 
a time when Liibeck could look down upon her sister city, 
Hamburg, with feelings of superiority and pride; but Fate 
the inexorable, in her dealings with nations, has made Liibeck 
no exception to the general rule; and the dissolution of the 
Hanseatic League in 1630, together with the mischievous 
results of French rule from 1810 to 1818, have done much to 
humble the once powerful city ; and from having a population 
of two hundred thousand souls, with a position as a sea-coast 
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