" Onines res create sunt divinre sapienti;? et piiteiitiw testes, diviti;^ felicitatis 

 huiuaiiiE: — ex barum usu honitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex oeconomia in conservatione, pro^Jortione, renovatione, potcntia majestatis 

 elucet. Earuin itaque indagatio ab liominibiis sibi relictis semper isstimata ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper exeulta; male doetis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fiiit." — Linn^us. 



" Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faiit qu'ouvrir les yeiix i^our 

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

 teut toutes ses operations." — Bruckneii, Theorie du St/steme Animal, Leyden, 

 1767. 



The sylvan powers 



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 stejj 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 jieril waits the bold adventurer's tread, 



The burning .sands of Borneo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay tlieir cheerful tribute. 



J. Taylor, Norunch, 1818. 



