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LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES,

Stamford-street.

BODLE

1 4 MAY 1931

IBRARY

CONTENTS

THE THIRD VOLUME.

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SUNDAY-Bertha stays with her aunt-Reflections

Barbauld's Address to the Deity-Our good dispositions

Immortality-High wind-Its effects-Omnipotence and

goodness

Rooks and nests-Attachment of rooks to places--Sociable
Dishonesty of Rooks-Description of the chaffer-beetle
Variety of plants in Great Britain-St. Patrick's heath-
Saxifraga geum

Arbutus not a native of Ireland-Dispersion of plants-

Isle of Man cabbage

Cryptogamous tribes-Phenogamous plants-Mosses
Contents of the little drawers-Geological collection-
Divisions-Coal measures-Impressions

Subterranean botany-Coal-Supermedial series-Gyp-

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Evidence of the resurrection must invigorate our minds
Value of Geology-Fragments of rocks imbedded in se-
condary strata-Debris

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These rocks, at some former period, were imbedded-
Marine animals found in high mountains

-Canada extracts-Snow gone

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Green-house plants placed in a pond-Gardening

Yellow ant-Its herd of aphis and milch-cows

Ants raise solid nests of clay in Africa-Buds in water-

Sunday-Deuteronomy

Law recapitulated-God's favour-Exhortation of Moses
Regret for his disobedience-His parting hymn
Trap formation, why called so-In veins or dykes, whe-
ther formed by fire or water-Basaltic rocks
Singular specimens in Scotland and Ireland-Plants of
each region best adapted to the climate
Vegetation appears to change with situation-Torrid zone

-Aristolochia-Rafflesia.

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Horse and lion opposed-The lion struck dead-Major
R.'s anecdote

Force of large bodies of water-Longitudinal and trans-
verse valleys

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Hills called 'outliers'-Debris-Basalt in London gravel-

beds

Fragments of primitive and secondary rocks in the same
bed-Diluvium
Direction of the currents of the Deluge-Fragments
found very distant from the parent hills

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Tobacco Its extensive use-Chibouque-Street of shops
for the sale of it
Manufacture of the Chibouque-Clay called kefkil-Or-
naments and mouth-pieces

Sunday-Deut. vi.-Characteristic excellence of the Mo-
saical law

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Obedience founded on the inward principle-The love of

God-Benevolence

Love of God the ground of human action, peculiar to the
Jewish and Christian dispensations

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