ii6 WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



Great Power that made them perfect, they praise 

 continually, all the time they live, by fulfilling the 

 end they were made for; and the Creator alone 

 understands the mysteries of all. Let scientists 

 bow their heads, for the highest one among them 

 all knows not yet the path of a bird on flight. 

 Patient men, naturalists, devoted to their study 

 in spite of everything, through good and ill fortune, 

 have done all that they are capable of doing to put 

 as much of the real truth as they are able to gain 

 before the public ; but much still remains hidden 

 from us. 



The study of the Creator's works makes one 

 feel glad to live and to be permitted to know a 

 little out of so much infinite greatness, but also 

 to rest content where we are not permitted to 

 know more. The rest is reserved for us elsewhere. 

 Earnest searchers after nature's secrets in all parts 

 of the world, are trying to discover the great bird- 

 nurseries of some of our migrants. It would take 

 a whole company of devoted searchers, all their 

 lives, to explore the desolate Siberian tundras. 

 Nearer home, within a few days' journey, we have 

 the marshes of Central France and the Spanish 



