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fplendid imagery, though lefs calculated 

 to amufe and to be underflood by common 

 readers. Thofe of that laft number who 

 had purchafed the firft part would not like 

 to poflefs the poem incomplete, and there- 

 fore would purchafe the fecond. The ob- 

 fervations of this paragraph refer to the 

 poetry of the work, and to the two claffes 

 of readers who would value it chiefly on 

 that account. The notes to each part 

 muft render them equally valuable t6 the 

 votaries of botany, and other modern 

 fciences. 



It is with juft and delicate criticifm that 

 Mr. Fellowes again obferves of Dr. Dar- 

 win's poetry : " In perfpicuity, which is 

 " one of the firft excellences in poetic as 

 " well as profe compofition, this author 

 " has perhaps few equals. He is clear, 

 " even when defcribing the moil intricate 

 " operations of nature, or the moil com- 

 " plex works of art ; and there is a lucid 



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