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most sublime adaptation of all knowledge, and, specially, of all Natural 

 Philosophy, is to discern and to remember, in all such beauteous pro- 

 ductions as these whereof the foregoing pages have been written ; and 

 wherewith this our planet and mundane fabric is so magnificently 

 adorned ; the hand of the Great Builder of the boundless universe ; 

 and with filial and loving adoration to "look through Nature up to 

 ISTature's God." 



Let the survey which has been taken lead, if it may presume to do 

 so, not only the mind from which it hath emanated, but likewise that 

 which hath courteously condescended to grant to it its kind consideration, 

 to give utterance to what may well be the sentiment we may hence enter- 

 tain, when engaged in the study of the Firs and Pines, by uniting in 

 that tribute and ascription wherewith our incomparable poet, whose 

 pen did not fear to pourtray even Paradise itself, hath in right Avelcome 

 measures invited us to the footstool of the Celestial Sovereignty : — 



" These are Thy glorious works, Parent of good : 

 Almighty, Thine this universal frame ; 

 Thus wondrous fair : Thyself how wondrous then ! 

 Unspeakable ! * * * or dimly seen 

 In these Thy lowliest works ! yet, these declare 

 Thy goodness beyond thought ; and power divine. 



His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, 



Breathe soft or loud : and WAVE YOUIi TOPS, YE PUSTES, 



And eveet plant, in sign of worship, wave." 



NORWICH : FEINTED BY FLETCHER AND SON. 



