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tiark the thin clouds of fleecy snow uniting gradually into a solid bank,— 
affording glimpses the while, as they join and separate, of the fair crea 
tion stretched out beneath; to smell the damp, cold vapor rising from 
heaven, as brilliant as they were on the first evening of their birth ;— 
are the lofty enjoyments, which the intellectual mind can grasp in these 
transcendent heights, 
“It is needless however to pursue the picture further, for it is impos- 
We are convined, will be more than enough to prove the reverse, pro- 
e 
vided the adventurer be not altogether insensible to eptions from 
without, or incurious as to the wor ings of 1e €3 ernal universe around 
him. This owever, we need scarcely add, is sine gua it 
of bliss; but he that serutinizeth trifles hath a store of pleasure to his 
hand: and happy and wise is the man to whose mind a trifle existeth 
not.” 
“The great expense necessarily attending the publication of a work 
like the present one will be a sufficient guarantee that it has been un- 
dertaken purely as a ‘labor of love,’ and with the sole aim (within its 
peal boldly to observation, in situ, as the test by whic most « 
sire to be judged,—having but little fear of the experiment, and believing 
are never in so ble a position for deciding on the relative 
nee of Zoological differences h e local circumstances 
Th i hilosophical feeion in science through 
€ second work discusses a philosop q Raabe While 
nera. 
‘Taking the preceding considerations into account, the question will 
perhaps "i ow ne is a genus to be defined? To which I may 
