"Omnes res crealse sunt divinee sapientiae et potentite testes, divitia' felieitatis 

 hiimame : — ex baruni usu bo7iitas Creatoris ; ex pulehritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconomia in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potcniia majestatis 

 elucet. Earuni itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi i-elictis semper aestimata ; 

 k ver^ eniditis et sapientibus semper exoiilt« ; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 iniiiiica fuit." — Linn<eu9. 



" Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

 voir qu'elle est le chef-d'oeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutea ses operations." — Brucknek, Theoric du Systeme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



Tlie sylvan povp-ers 



Obey our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round ten thousand forms minute 



Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep : the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen poles. 



Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread. 



The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay tiieir cheerful tribute. 



J. Tavloi!, Korv'irh, 1818. 



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ALIOKE I FLAMMAM. 



