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for we have dlfcovered only about 1200 native? 

 plants, and about 1400 fpecies of animals. Wd 

 of the human race, who were created to praife 

 and adore our Creator^ unlefs we choofe to ht 

 mere idle fpe6tators, fhould and in duty ought 

 to be affected with nothing fo much as the pious 

 confideration of this glorious palace. Moft cer- 

 tainly if we were to improve and polilh our 

 minds by the knowledge of thefe things •, wc 

 fhould befides the great ufe which would ac- 

 crue to our oecononly, difcover the more ex-* 

 cellent ceconomy of nature, and more ftrongly 

 admire it when difcovered* 



Omnium elementorum alterni recurfi funt, 

 Quicquid alteri perit in alterum tranfit. 



Senec. Nat. III. lOi 



TH E foregoing piece^ though on a fub- 

 je6t often treated by learned and ingeni- 

 ous men, feems to me to contain many things 

 new and curious, and to give a more compre- 

 henfivc and diftindt view, as it were in amap^ 

 of the fe veral parts of nature, their connections 

 and dependencies, than Is any where elfe to be 

 found. But exclufive of this or any other com- 

 parative merit, it certainly conveys an ufefuU 

 3 lefTon, 



