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are fown by thmlh^s, and other birds in the* 

 fame manner ; as the berries, being heavy^ 

 cannot be difperfed far by the winds. The 

 crofs-bill that lives on the fir-cones, and the 

 hawfinch that feeds on the pine-cones, at the 

 fame time fow m^any of their feeds^ efpecially 

 when they carry the cone to a flone, or trunk 

 of a tree, that they more eafily flrip it of its 

 fcales. Swine likewife, by turning up the 

 earth, and moles by throwing up hillocks, 

 prepare the ground for feeds in the fame man- 

 ner, as the ploughman does. 



I pafs over many other things, which might 

 be mentioned concerning the fea, lakes, and 

 rivers, by the help of which oftentimes feeds 

 kre conveyed unhurt to diftant countries -, nor 

 need I mention in what a variety ©f other 

 ways nature provides for the diflemination of 

 plants, as this fubje6t has been treated on at 

 large in our illuftrious prefident's oration con-, 

 cerning the augmentation of the habitable 

 earth. ^ 



§. 8. 



p As there is fomething very ingenioas, and quite new 

 in the treatife here referred to, i will for the fake of thofe,. 

 who cannot read the original, give a (hort abftradl of it. 

 His defign is to fhew that there was only one pair of alt 

 living things, created at the beginning. According to the 



account 



