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covered with its fresh and appropriate vegetation, 
and you would have one of the most beautiful 
promenades conceivable. 
In concluding my little work, no one can he 
more sensible than myself of its many imperfec- 
tions. The unremitting toil of general medical 
practice allows of little time for scientific in- 
quiries ; and I must rest satisfied with having 
ministered matter for men of riper wits and deeper 
judgments to polish. Deeply convinced of the 
great practical utility and high importance of 
these researches, I hope yet to see the day when 
in our Universities and our public schools, 
the study of Natural History will be deemed 
at least as worthy of attention as an ode of 
Pindar, or a proposition of Euclid. All sorts 
and conditions of men would benefit by a more 
extended knowledge of those immutable laws, 
which influence the well-being of everything 
that has life. The medical man would find his 
endeavours to improve the sanitary condition of 
his fellow creatures no longer thwarted by the 
delusive fallacies of mesmerism or homoeopathy, 
or by defective and mischievous legislation ; and 
the divine would surely not be the less able ex- 
pounder of the Word of God, by being able to 
demonstrate practically to his flock, that through 
