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throughout the globe, and if Providence does 

 not always calculate exadtly according to our 

 way of reckoning, we ought to confider this 

 affair in the fame light, as when different feamen 

 wait for a fair wind, every one, with refpe6t to 

 the part he is bound to, who we plainly fee 

 cannot all be fatisfied. 



§• 19- 



The whole earth would be overwhelmed with 

 carcafes, and {linking bodies, if fome animals 

 did not dehght to feed upon them. Therefore 

 when an animal dyes, hears, wolves^ foxes^ ra- 

 vens, &c. do not lofe a moment till they have 

 taken all away. But if a lorfe e. g. dyes near 

 the public road, you will find him, after a few 

 days, fwoln, burft, and at laft filled with innu- 

 merable grtths of carnivorous//i?J, by which he 

 is entirely confumed, and removed out of the 

 way, that he may not become a nufance to 

 paffengers by his poifonous ftench. 



When the carcafes of fifhes are driven upon 

 the fhore, the voracious kinds, fuch as the thorn- 

 hack, the hound fijh, the conger eel, &c. gather 

 about and eat them. But becaufe the flux, and 



reflux 



