trict, numbering
among its picturesque beauties, the broad estuary of the Severn, the
mountains of Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon, and their peaceful vales
and cheerful cottages; Thornbury, with its fine cathedral-like church
and castle, the red cliffs of the Severn, and numberless antiquities
of our ancestors--as roads, encampments, aggera, watch-hills, coins,
lances, and other relics of those warlike times. Labour and healthful
enjoyment reign in this district: for it is neither torn up for its
mineral wealth, nor are its natural beauties annihilated, or the habits
of its population corrupted by speculation or avarice. A portrait of
"a worthy peasant," introduced by our author, reminds us of

----A bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

A passage quoted by the late Mr. Canning, in one of his finest speeches;
and we often contrast this vigorous outline of the people of "merry
England" with her artificial state of after times. Next are a page or
two of agricultural chemistry (_analysis of soils_) unfettered with
technicals; double the space of what may strictly be called rural
economy, (_grass lands_) succeed; next the culture and history of
the potato, and some new observations on "_the Teazle_."

Several pages on _trees_ possess great interest, as do those on
_flowers_.

We regret we have room but for a few heads--the _maple_--the
_Naturalist's Autumnal Walk_--the _Economy of Animals_, especially
of _Birds_: we must pass them over to elucidate our engraving of

THE GLOWWORM.

That pretty sparkler of our summer evenings, so often made the
ploughboy's prize, the only brilliant that glitters in the rustic's hat,
the glowworm, (_lampyris noctiluca_,) is not found in such numbers
with us, as in many other places, where these signal tapers glimmer upon
every grassy bank; yet, in some seasons, we have a reasonable sprinkling
of them. Every body probably knows, that the male glowworm is a winged,
erratic animal, yet may not have seen him. He has ever been a scarce
creature to me, meeting perhaps with one or two in a year; and, when
found, always a subject of admiration. Most creatures have their eyes
so placed, as to be enabled to see about them; or, as Hook says of the
house-fly, to be "circumspect animals;" but this male glowworm has a
contrivance, by which any upward or side vision is prevented. Viewed
when at rest, no portion of his eyes is visible, but the head