MIGRATION OF FISHES. 



The Sturgeon, the Herring, the Cod, &c. Cetaceous Animals. Migration from 

 the Sea into Rivers. Migration of Eels. 

 New-Year's-Day. 

 Migration of the Land-Crab. x. Sunday. — Winter an Emblem of Death. 



HYBERNATION OF QUADRUPEDS. 



Clothing. Storing Instincts. Torpidity. 



HYBERNATION OF MAN. 



Privation stimulates his Faculties. Provisions for his Comfort. Adaptation 

 of his Constitution to the Season, xi. Sunday. — The Unceasing and Universal 

 Providence of God. 



INHABITANTS OF THE POLAR REGIONS. 



The Esquimaux. Food and Clothing. Dwellings and Fire. 



FROST. 



Provision for causing Ice to Float on the Surface. The Expansive and Non^ 

 conducting Power of Ice. Amusements connected with it. xii. Sunday.^— 

 Winter not Monotonous. — Boundless Variety of Nature. Effects of Frost in the 

 Northern Regions. Agency of Frost in Mountainous Regions. Hoar Frost. — 

 Foliations on Window-Glass, &c. Beneficent Contrivances relative to Snow. 

 Sagacity and Fidelity of the Dog in Snow. 



GEOLOGY. 



Its Phenomena consistent with the Mosaic Account of the Creation, xiii. 

 Sunday. — The Difficulty of Comprehending the Operations of Providence. Suc- 

 cessive Periods of Deposit. Successive Periods of Organized Existences. State 

 of the Antediluvian World. Indications of the Action of the Deluge at the Period 

 assigned to it in Scripture. Cuvier's Calculation respecting the Deluge. Effecta 

 of the Deluge on the Present Surface of the Earth, xiv. Sunday. — The Deluge 

 a Divine Judgement. 



VOL. II.— SPRING. 



COSMICAL ARRANGEMENTS. 



General Character of Spring in temperate Climates. Increasing Temperature 

 of the Weather, and its Effects. Color and Figure of Bodies. Mountains. Rain. 

 Springs, i. SvNnxv.— Advantages of Vicissitude. Rivers. 



REPRODUCTION OF VEGETABLES. 



Vegetable Soil. Vegetation. Preservation and Distribution of Seeds. Long 



Vitality of Seeds. Developement of Seeds and Plants, ii. Sunday Analogy 



of Nature. The Vital Powers of Plants. Flowers.— Their Form, Color, and 

 Fragrance. Their Organs of Reproduction, and their Secretion of Honey. The 

 Violet. 



REPRODUCTION OF ANIMALS. 



The Animal Structure.— Cellular Texture— Membranes, Tendons, and Liga- 

 ments. Secretion, Digestion, and the Circulation of the Blood, iii. Sunday. 



'■^ The Same Lord over All." The Animal Structure. Gastric Juice. Muscular 

 Power. Nature of the Proof of Creative Wisdom derived from the Animal Frame. 

 The Lower Orders of Animals. The Higher Orders of Animals. 



INSTINCTS CONNECTED WITH THE REPRODUCTION OF ANIMALS. 



General Remarks. Parental Affection. Insects.— Their Eggs. iv. Sunday. 

 -On the Uniformity or Sameness in the Natural and Moral World. Insects.— 

 Care of their Offspring, exemplified in Bees and Wasi)s. The Moth. The Bury- 

 ing-Beetle. The Ant. Gall Flies. Deposition of Eggs in the Bodies of Animals, 

 and in Insects' Nests. Birds.— Their Eggs. Prospective Contrivances, v. Sun- 

 day.— O/i the Domestic Affections. Birds.— Relation of their Bodies to external 

 Nature. Pairing. Nest-building. The Grossbeak. The Humming-bird. vi. 

 ^vsTiKy.— Regeneration. Birds.— Nests of Swallows. Hatching of Eg-^s, and 

 rearing the Brood, auadrupeds.— The Lion. The Rabbit. Instincts of the Young. 



