596 THE WHITE COFFEE-LEAF MINER. 
“It is a singular fact, that when we can find out how anything. 
is done, our first conclusion seems to be that God did not doit. — 
neficent result, if we can but catch a glimpse of the wheels its 
ivine character disappears.” 
I agree with the writer that this first conclusion is premature 
and unworthy ; I will add deplorable. Through what faults or in- 
firmities of dogmatism on the one hand and skepticism on the other 
it came to be so thought, we need not here consider. Let us hope, 
and I confidently expect, that it is not to last ; that the religious 
faith which survived without a shock the notion of the fixity of the 
earth itself, may equally outlast the notion of the absolute fixity 
of the species which inhabit it;—that, in the future even more 
than in the past, faith in an order, which is the basis of science, 
will not (as it cannot reasonably) be dissevered from faith in an, 
Ordainer, which is the basis of religion. 
THE WHITE COFFEE-LEAF MINER. ' 
[Concluded from June number, p. 341.] 
BY B. PICKMAN MANN. 
Abundance.— Some idea of the abundance of these insects may 
be given by stating that, although, as I was frequently told, tey 
were much less destructive than usual during the year 10 W < 
I observed them, yet from one tree, which I chose for an er 
. ment as not exceptional unless by reason of its size, I picker 
one hundred and fifty-three leaves in the course of nineteen pe | 
utes, endeavoring at the same time to select only those age 
which contained living larvae, and to leave those from ee 
larvee had escaped. Of these leaves forty-four contained ree 
mines, but the larve had escaped; ninety contained one b sue 
and twenty-two mines still inhabited ; the rest contained old ae 
or blotches made by a fungus which also attacks the gE 
Manner of Devastation. — The injury caused by this of 
due to the destruction of the digestive and respiratory ap : 
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