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(o that it becomes like dull, and is fpread by the 

 wind over the ground. Were it not for this, 

 the vegetables that lye under the dung, would 

 be fo far from thriving, that all that fpot would 

 be rendered barren. 



As the excrements of dogs is of fo filthy and 

 feptic a nature, that no infe^ will touch them, 

 and therefore they cannot be difperfed by that 

 means, care is taken that thefe animals Ihould 

 exonerate upon ftones, trunks of trees, or fome 

 high place, that vegetables may not be hurt by 

 them. 



Cats bury their dung. Nothing is fo mean, 

 pothing fo little, in which the wonderfull order, 

 and wife difpofition of nature does not Ihine 

 forth. 



§. 20. 



Laftly, all thefe treafures of nature fo art- 

 fully contrived, fo wonderfully propagated, fo 

 providentially flipported throughout her three 

 Jcingdoms, feem intended by the Creator for 

 the fake of man. Every thing may be made 

 fubfervient to his ufe, if not immediately, yet 

 mediately, not fo to that of other animals, By 

 the help of reafon man tames the ficrceft ani- 

 mals. 



