CONTENTS. 



INCITEMENTS TO THE STUDY OF NATURE.. 



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General remarks .-. 3 



I. POETIC DESCRIPTIONS OF NATURE. 



By the Greeks . . . ... . , . .6 



By the Romans 16 



By the early Christians 25 



By the Germans of the middle ages 30 



By the Indians 37 



By the Persians . 40 



By the Fins 42 



By the Hebrews 43 



By the Arabians 48 



In modern literature : 



Dante and Petrarch . . . . . . . .50 



Columbus , ... 54- 



Camoens 57 



Ercilla and Calderon 60 



Shakspeare, Milton, and Thomson . . . . .61 



Modern prose writers 63 



Travellers of the 14th and 15th centuries . . . .67 

 Modern travellers 68 



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