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Eratosthenes.

IV.
LUNAR LANDSCAPE.

Paley holds that astronomy does not afford such striking proofs of a Divine intelligence, as the wonderful adaptation of means to ends presented everywhere in the animal and vegetable kingdoms; but that, a Divine intelligence being granted, no field presents such impressive views of the grandeur and power of God. Every one must feel the force of this observation when, in thought, he wanders over the