74 STUDIES IN THE FIELD AND FOREST. 



renew their gambols. The bats, governed in their 

 movements by these increased multitudes of insects, 

 come out more numerously after a rain, in pursuit of 

 their insect prey. 



I have thus far nlade an attempt to show the harmo- 

 nious relations that exist between those different natural 

 phenomena which have been regarded as weather signs; 

 but I have made no attempt to enumerate their details, 

 which are too numerous for an essay of this descrip- 

 tion. The more we study these relations, the more 

 shall we be delighted with a science that is constantly 

 unveiling some new mystery. Every step we take in 

 this field of wonders, reveals new truths to our sight, 

 not perplexing the mind with doubts and inexplicable 

 problems, like the study of metaphysics, but making 

 our understanding clear with every step in our progress, 

 and affording us the pleasing consciousness that we are 

 drawing constantly nearer that divine temple from 

 which emanates all light and knowledge and beauty. 



