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PLATE XLIX.<br />
116<br />
HIGH BROWN FRITILLARY<br />
Argynnis adippe, FABRICIUS. DUNCAN.<br />
" " OCHSENHEIMEB. STEPHENS.<br />
Papilio adippe, LINNJEUS. HAREIS. ESPEB.<br />
" " LEWIN. DONOVAN.<br />
Acidalia adippe, HUBNEE.<br />
IT has been Avell observed, that all the best and highest<br />
enjoyments of man are those which, coming as they do direct<br />
from the bounteous hand of the OMNIPOTENT Himself, are<br />
not purchaseable with money or any other human commodity.<br />
Every aspect under which nature is viewed throws light upon<br />
this remark, and gilds it with the unmistakeable lustre of truth.<br />
Without philosophising on the connection between mind and<br />
matter, upon an investigation into which, if we enter, the result<br />
at its close will be that we shall find ourselves on the threshold<br />
at which we first stood, it is certain that mental enjoyments<br />
are those of primary moment, and those that convey the highest<br />
satisfaction to the intellectual man, to that part of man which<br />
even the heathen philosopher perceived to be the man himself.<br />
Where can you buy the feelings of the astronomer, or in what<br />
Australia discover a reward for the successful mathematician?<br />
Where is the El Dorado that will furnish a % r alue which the<br />
gifted mechanist Avould exchange for the Avidely extended<br />
benefits his felloAv-men derive from the years of his patient<br />
endeavours? Under what "Mountain of light" shall you discover<br />
a hidden treasure, the finding of Avhich shall equal the exalted<br />
delight Avith which you Avill gaze from its summit on all that<br />
lies between it and the surrounding horizon? What sublunary<br />
pleasure can realize the depth of feeling with which you
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