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«« frogs are generated in fuch numbers there, 

 " that did not the ftorks devour them, they 

 " would over-run every thing. Befides they 

 " alfo catch, and tTilferpents, Between Belba 

 " and Gaza the fields of Paleftine are often 

 '' defert on account of the abundance of miccy 

 " and rats -, and were they not deflroyed by the 

 *' falconSy that come here, by inftindl, the in- 

 '* habitants could have no harvefl. 



The white fox S. N. 8. 7. is of equal advantage 

 in the Lapland alps -, as he deftroys the Norway 

 rats^ F. N. 2 6. which are generated there in great 

 abundance; and thus hinders them from in- 

 creafmg too much in proportion, which woukl 

 be the deftrudlion of vegetables. 



It is fufficient for us, that nothing is made 

 by Providence in vain, and that whatever is 

 made, is made with fupreme wifdom. For it 

 does not become us to pry too boldly into all the 

 defisns of God. Let us not imaojine, when 

 thefe rapacious animals fometimes do us mif- 

 chief, that the Creator planned the order of na- 

 ture according to our private principles of ceoo- 

 nomy *, for the Laplanders have one way of 

 living', the European hufbandman another; 

 the Hottentots and favages a third, whereas 

 the ftupendous cEConomy of the Deity is one 



through- 



