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THE GALLERY OF NATURE:
A Historical and Descriptive Tour through Creation, illustrative of the Wonders of Astronomy, Physical Geography, and Geology. By the Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A., F.R.G.S.
This volume is intended to furnish a general view of the leading appearances of Physical Nature, the economy of the heavens and the earth, with incidental notices of the progress, discovery, and pictorial representations of the more remarkable phenomena and interesting localities. Regarding it as one of the happy tendencies of the age to be more in favour of intellectual occupations than of the recreations formerly courted, the writer has endeavoured to supply a digest of the knowledge respecting the “wondrous whole,” of which we and our world form a part.
The work comprises a History of Astronomical Discovery,—a rapid glance at the Scenery of the Heavens, and its more remarkable phenomena. In describing the Physical Aspect of our own and other countries, the more striking subjects only have, of necessity, been given.