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and groves, and rich fields, if your eye has been 

 duly exercised, the city is taken and your own at 

 a glance ; and we very frequently find that a keen- 

 eyed visitant, who remains but for an hour, will 

 discover in a place many beauties that were un- 

 known to the whole of its inhabitants, but which 

 have been found worthy of admiration, and ad- 

 mired by them, and have been visited and admired 

 by others, and the place has thriven and grown 

 from a small village to a goodly town, simply be- 

 cause one man, who had eyes in his head and 

 could use them, happened to look at it, possibly 

 without any intention but that of feasting his hun- 

 gry eyes at the moment. 



A disquisition on the anatomical structure of 

 the eye fonns no part of the eye's education ; be- 

 cause it is not the matter of the eye that wants to 

 be taught, it is the mode of its action ; and all 

 that can be said is, give it plenty of exercise; 

 keep it always hungry for knowledge of whatever 

 can come before it, and do not fatigue it either by 

 excess or monotony. The invitation of all nature 

 to the eye is, " Come and see." 



