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their services. In temperate climates, where decomposition 

 from atmospheric causes moves at so slow a rate as to require 

 adventitious aid,, their number is large ; in hot and arid atmo- 

 spheres,, as in the Pampas of South America, where a carcase 

 becomes dry almost before putrefaction, and where travellers 

 can make a fire of a dead horse, they are comparatively rare. 



Contemplated thus under their aspect of usefulness, much of 

 our very natural repugnance to the gloomy habitudes or un- 

 clean propensities of the beetle Scarabseus and its indefatigable 

 fellows, must give way to thankfulness that such creatures 

 exist ; also to admiration of that nice endowment of adapted 

 sensations, faculties, and powers, which direct and enable 

 them to do, in our behalf, the bidding of their Creator. 



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