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with the breath of life, and then to be embedded in 

 the rock as everlasting characters by which the 

 unborn generations of men might read in history 

 of those changes, and of the providential dealings 

 of God with his creatures. Of these Ammonites, 

 and other fossil shells, much more will have to be 

 said in our proposed geological volume ; the poem 

 which follows will very appropriately conclude the 

 above remarks, and our present little work on 



NAUTILUS. AMMONITE. 



shells — beautiful, wonderful shells ! useful, orna- 

 mental, instructive ! The subject is one which we 

 would earnestly invite our young readers to study: 

 it is but here introduced ; we have picked up a few, 

 very few, of the wonders and beauties of con- 

 chology, and presented them to their notice in the 

 hope that they may be induced to desire a more 

 intimate acquaintance with this branch of natural 



