4 ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY. 
THE TEACHINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
" To cverj man," says Martin, from whom we derive some of the preceding suggestions, " whose 
heart is well attuned, whose feelings are pure and uudebased. Nature presents a thousand charms. 
At every step she delights him with new wonders; she invites him to acquaintance, and well is he 
GARDEN OF PLANTS, PAKIS : ASCENT TO THE SUMMIT. — (See p. 6.) 
rewarded who obeys her call. The votary of Nature deems no object unworthy of examination, 
none destitute of interest ; nor does the spirit of philosophic inquiry suffer him to rest satisfied 
with a casual glance at the multitudinous phenomena around him. He is not content merely to 
