OF NATURE. 



§• 15. 



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As foon as animals come to maturity, and 

 want no longer the care of their parents, they 

 attend with the utmoft labor, and induflry, ac- 

 cording to the law and oeconomy appointed 

 for every fpecies, to the prefervation of their 

 lives. But that fo great a number of them, 

 which occur every where, may be fupported, 

 and a certain and fixed order may be kept up 

 amongft them, behold the wonderfuU difpofi- 

 tion of the Creator, in afTigning to each fpe- 

 cies certain kinds of food, and in putting li- 

 mits to their appetites. So that fome live on 

 particular fpecies of plants, which particular 

 regions, and foils only produce. Some on par- 

 ticular animalcula, others on carcafes, and fome 

 even on mud and dung. For this reafon Pro- 

 vidence has ordained, that fome jfhould fwim 

 in certain regions of the watery element, others 

 fhould fly ', fome fhould inhabit the torrid, the 

 frigid, or the temperate zones, and others 

 fliould frequent defarts, mountains, woods, 

 pools or meadows, according as the food pro- 

 per to their nature is found in fufficient quan- 

 tity. By this means there is no terreftrial 



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