200 OUTDOOR STUDIES 
ades through the grave eyes of a Puritan divine. 
“ The Seven Stars are the Summer Constella- 
tion; they bring on the spring and summer; 
and Ovion is a Winter Constellation, which is 
attended with snow and cold, as at this Day. 
. .. Moreover, Late Philosophers by the help 
of the AZicroscope have observed the wonderful 
Wisdom of God in the Figure of the Snow; 
each flake is usually of a Stel/ate Form, and of 
six Angles of exact equal length from the Cen- 
ter. It is Uke a little Star. A great man 
speaks of it with admiration, that in a Body so 
familiar as the Snow is, no Philosopher should 
for many Ages take notice of a thing so obvious 
as the Figure of it. The learned Kepler, who 
lived in this last Age, is acknowledged to be 
the first that acquainted the world with the 
Sexangular Figure of the Snow.” 
Then come the devout applications. “There 
is not a Flake of Snow that-falls on the Ground 
without the hand of God, Mat. 10. 29. 30. 
Not a Sparrow falls to the Ground, without the 
Will of your Heavenly Father, all the Hairs of 
your head arenumbred. So the Great God has 
numbred all the Flakes of Snow that covers 
the Earth, Altho’ no man can number them, 
that God that tells the number of the Stars has 
numbred them all. . . . We often see it, when 
the Ground is bare, if God speaks the word, the 
