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All fucculent plants make ground fine, of a 

 good quality, and in great plenty, as fedum^ 

 craffuky aloe,, alga ''. But dry plants make it 

 more barren, as ling or heathy pines, mofs -, and 

 therefore nature has placed the fucculent plants 

 on rocks, and the dryell hills. 



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The animal kingdom* 



Propagatioil* 



The generation of animals holds the firft 

 place among all things, that raife our admira- 

 tion, when we confider the works of the 

 Creator •, and that appointment particularly, by 

 which he has regulated the conception of the 

 f^tusy and its exelufion, that it fhould be 

 adapted to the difpofition, and way of living 

 of each animal, is moft worthy of our atten- 

 tion. 



We find no fpecies of animals exempt from 

 the (lings of love, which is put into them to 

 the end, that the Creator's mandate may be 

 executed, increafe and multi-ply ; and that thus 



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