Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ and expression appropriate to each action of i life. But it seems to have been forgotten that =j there is an anatomy of nature as Avell as of I man; and that the splendid scenery of the world, j formed for man’s enjoyment and instruction by I the hand of a beneficent Creator, is as entirely I i dependent upon the mechanical and often che- t, mical peculiarities of the rocks and solid portions i' which compose it, for its expression—its aspect of nature—as is the face of man, or the outline ( of his limbs, upon the muscular arrangements I. beneath the external skin. The study of geo^ \ logy becomes, therefore, as essential to the [ landscape-painter, as that of anatomy to the ^ historical or portraiture artist. Even the tm- > educated and unscientific are able to recognise i, the imperfections of landscape-painters in this t particular, and though perhaps unable to exr r] plain their faults and inconsistencies, they £ nevertheless recognise the fact that something. » is wrong about the picture, although they do P do not know what. The geologist at a glance O'perceives, and is able to point out the inac- B i curacy, and he marks the almost ludicrous fact, 3 that to the characters of what should be a 1. stratified rock, the artist has given those be- ll longing to a non-stratified one, or the contrary; { while the peculiar forms of vales and hills, I which are all determined to a. great degree by