Il8 OBSERVATIONS &C. 



inspires.* If the smallest blade of grafs ex- 

 cites our wonder, and mocks our feeble 

 imitation, what a rich and inexhaustible 

 fund of delight, must the whole animal and 

 vegetable kingdom afford when the volume 

 of nature, is presented to our view arrayed 

 in, the most captivating drefs. 



Not a tree, 



A plant, a leaf, a blofsom, but contains 

 A folio volume. We may read and read 

 And read again, and still find something new, 

 Something to please, something to instruct, 

 E'en in the kumbU weed. 





* It is a general observation that anglers are men 

 of patient and quiet dispositions. Are such men 

 fond of angling, or has the amusement this influence 

 on the mind ? 



