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PREFACE TO LATEST EDITION. 



THE quietness with which former editions of this 

 little book have gone off, has induced the Author at 

 once to prepare another, in which all errors of letter- 

 press, &c. have been corrected. This book includes 

 so many subjects, on each of which volumes have 

 been written, that the Author was necessarily 

 obliged to be both discursive and brief. But if it 

 has been the means of introducing young readers 

 to higher- class works, in which the wonders of 

 Creation are more detailedly set forth, or if it 

 has developed a love for the multitudinous natural 

 objects which surround us., his pleasant labours 

 have not been in vaiii- 



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