RELIGIOUS LECTURES

ON

PECULIAR PHENOMENA

IN THE

FOUR SEASONS:

I. THE RESURRECTIONS OF SPRING:

II.

THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF SUMMER:
III. THE EUTHANASIA OF AUTUMN:

IV.

THE CORONATION OF WINTER:

DELIVERED TO THE STUDENTS IN AMHERST COLLEGE,

IN 1845, 1847, 1848 AND 1849.

BY EDWARD HITCHCOCK, D. D., LL. D.,

PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF NATURAL
THEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY.

AMHERST:

J. S. & C. ADAMS.
1850..

P:

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by J. S. & C. ADAMS, in the

Clerk's Office in the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO THE HON. SAMUEL WILLISTON;

THE MUNIFIcent frienD AND PATRON OF RELIGION AND LEARNING ;

THE FOUNDER OF WILLISTON SEMINARY;

AND THE LIBERAL BENEFACTOR OF AMHERST COLLEGE:

THIS LITTLE WORK,

THE FIRST FRUITS OF A PROFESSORSHIP OF NATURAL THEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY, ENDOWED BY HIM, AND FILLED BY THE AUTHOR;

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED;

AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE AND PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP.

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