56 CECONOMY 



trad, no fea, no river, no countrey, but what 

 contains, and nourifhcs various kinds of ani- 

 mals. Hence alfo an animal of one kind can* 

 not rob thofe of another kind of its aliment ; 

 which, if it happened, would endanger their 

 lives or health ; and thus the world at all 

 rimes affords nourifhment to fo many, and fo 

 large inhabitants, at the fame rime that no- 

 thing, which it produces, is ufelefs or fuper- 



fiuous. ' 



I think it will not be amifs to produce fomc 

 inftances, by which it will appear, how provi- 

 dentially the Creator has furnillied every ani- 

 mal with fuch cloathing, as is proper for the 

 countrey where they live^ and alfo how excel- 

 lenriy the flrudlure of their bodies is adapted 

 to their particular way of life -, fo that they 

 feem to be deftined folely to the places, where 

 they are found. 



Monkiesy elephants, and rhinocerofes feed 

 upon vegetables, that grow in hot countries, 

 and therefore therein they have their allotted 

 places. When the fun darts forth its mod 

 fervid rays, thefe animals are of fuch a nature^ 

 and difpofirion, that it does them no manner 

 of hurt •, nay with the reft of the inhabitants 

 gf thofe parts they go naked, whereas were 

 I they 



