to me: now you are gone, whatever I do i flat, tasteless, and solitary. My mother says, the best remedy for the loss of your company, is, to establish a regular correspondence on some particular subject, in which both feel an equal interest ; - and, as we derived so much amusement and advantage, last summer, from the study of Botany, she recommends our continuing that, combined with one still more interesting, because it treats of animated beings; .1 mean Entomology, or the knowledge of

Insects, a pursuit of which she is extremely

fond, and has kindly offered to give me lessons, that I am to communicate to you. I know you will approve this proposal; for, though some inattentive observers have despised the science as trifling and useless, they have cx posed their ignorance by such an opinions Surely, nothing can be more suited to a creature endowed with reason, than to investigate the works of God. Wiiethcr lie turn his attention to the harmonious order of the vast orbs, which are scattered so magnificently through the boundless space; or examine the curious structure of an insect, so minute that it can only be perceived by the assistance of a microscope;-he will find the same wisdom and power, though differently applied, displayed in both The admirable contrivance exerted