4 ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE TEACHINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 

 " To every man," Bays .Martin, from whom we derive some of the preceding suggestions, " whose 

 heart is well attuned, whose feelings arc pure and undebased, Nature presents a thousand charms. 

 At every step she delights him with new wonders; she invites him to acquaintance, and well is he 



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rewarded who oheys her call. The votary of Nature deems no ohject unworthy of examination* 

 none destitute of interest; nor does the spirit of philosophic inquiry suffer him to rest satisfied 

 with a casual glance at the multitudinous phenomena around him. He is not content merely to 



