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really due to the action of comparatively well-known 
and simple causes, I shall have attained my present 
purpose, which has been to extend the interest so 
‘generally felt in the more striking facts of natural 
history to a large:class of curious but much neglected 
details; and to further, in however slight a degree, 
our knowledge of the subjection of the phenomena of 
life to the “Reign of Law.” 
