GLEANINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY. 'There are still in thee, 'Instructive Book of Nature! many leaves We have often conversed together on the subject of Natural History, and you are aware how very desirous I have been that it should become one of your favourite studies. I have, therefore, devoted a few hours of the present winter in putting together some of the remarks which I have from time to time made or collected on the animal creation-a study not only delightful in itself, but which tends to promote good and kind feelings, and to raise our affections to that Being by whose infinite power and wisdom all things were made. Indeed, the more minutely we search into the history, habits, and economy of the birds, animals, and insects, which surround us, the more reason shall we have to admire the various demonstrations of the Creator's wisdom in the composition, order, and harmony, of each of them, however insignificant they may appear to us. We are led to see B |