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Apvertifement, 
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| “LHe ftudy of Natura Hisrory, has of late, 
become too important a branch in Polite Literature, | 
to be negle€ied; it at once refines the tafe, foftens 
the manners and improves the heart :—It leads the 
rifing generation to juft ideas of their CREATOR, and 
iniftils within them,, principles of humanity towards 
all :— 


Who can paint 
Like Nature ?—Can imagination boaft, 
- Amid his gay creation, hues like thefe ? 
And can he mix them with that matchlefs (kill, 
And lay them on fo delicately fine, 
And lofe them in each other, as appéars 
In ev‘ry bud that blows ?.-..-—-.T bomp/fon‘s Spring. 
The education of our youth is certainly of the ut- 
moft importance, and demands the earlieft attention ; 
and as the mind begins to expand, and make obferva- 
tions upon the various caufes of Nature, an immedi- 
ate application to the ftudy of Natural Hiftory, cannot 
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