Title: Beauties of the Studies of nature: /
Authors: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814.; Kendall, Edward Augustus, 1776?-1842,; Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814.
Publisher: London--printed, 1799. New-York: Re-printed for H. Caritat, bookseller, stationer & librarian, by M.L. & W.A. Davis.,
Year: 1799
Subjects: Natural history.
Contents: Select Passages: The life to come. -- Misfortune. -- Children at Marley. -- Maturity of fruits. -- Savages. -- The confidents of animals. -- Importance of securing trifles. -- Gold-mines. -- Mines of metals, supposed to be supplied by attractive peaks. -- Possibility of attracting rain by articifical means. -- The ephemera. -- Nature is desirous to multiply our blessings, and to diminish our evils. -- Farther instances of the above. -- The banana. -- Flowers. -- Volatility of seeds. -- Means employed by nature for the dispersion of seeds that are not volatile. -- Use of icy mountains. -- Other methods of cooling hot climates. -- Connection of sentiments with material objects. -- Music. -- Vegetables yielding water. -- Vegetables adapted to the comforts and wants of man. -- Singing birds. -- Ruins of nature. -- Studies of Nature: Immensity of nature. -- Beneficence of nature. -- Geographical. -- Beauty of the vegetable world. -- Fishes. -- On some of the evils of human life. -- Harmony of nature. -- Contrasts in the works of nature. -- Concerts in nature. -- Of the sentiments of the divinity, and of our misery. -- The Gauls.