SAMOUELLE S 



each other like the tiles on a house. Whichever is 

 the case, it is an admirable instance of contrivance 

 and skill in the Creator. What can the utmost in- 

 genuity of man produce, to be compared with it ? 

 The painter may produce a something like it ; a 

 something, that to our dull organs of vision bears, 

 perhaps, a strong resemblance ; but will it bear ex- 

 amination with the microscope ? Will it, then, dis- 

 cover any marks of ingenious arrangement, one 

 particle nicely laid over another, of a different shade ; 

 whole rows, equal in size, evenly disposed, without 

 jostling or intermixture ? How rough and rugged a 

 mass of plaister, then, would the best human imita- 

 tion of a moth's wing appear to the all-searching eye 

 of Nature's God, or even to the eye of the moth 

 itself, for whose gratification, no doubt, this ex- 

 quisite art and beauty have been displayed ! 



