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^ Thus bountiful! nature feeds the fowls of the 



air. 



The Creator has taken no lefs care of fome 

 amphibious animals^ as the fnake and frog 

 kind, which, as they have neither wings to 

 fly, nor feet to run fwiftly, and commodioufly, 

 would fcarcely have any means of taking their 

 prey, were it not that fome animals run, as it 

 were of their own accord, into their mouths. 

 When the rattle-fnake a native of America, 

 with open jaws fixes his eyes on a bird, fly, or 

 fquirrel, fitting on a tree, they fly down his 

 throat, being rendered flnapid, and giving 

 themfelves up \ as deftitute of all refuge. On 

 the other hand we cannot but adore the Cre- 

 ator's great goodnefs towards man, when we 



^ To which we may add, that many fmall birds feed up- 

 on the feeds oi plantain, particularly linnets. It is gene- 

 rally known that the goldfinch lives upon the feed oi thijiies, 

 from which he has its name in Greek, Latin and French. 



' How dreadful! this ferpent is to other animals will ap- 

 pear by an account we have in a treatife intitled, Radix Se- 

 nega. Where the author Amasn. academ. vol. 2. fays, one 

 of thefe terrible ferpents got clandeftinely into the houfe of 

 governor Blake at Cacolina ; where it would have long 

 laid corxealed, had it not been that all the domeftic ani- 

 mals, as dogs, hogs, turkies and fowls admonifhed the fa- 

 mily by their unulual eries, equally (hewing their horrror 

 and confcernation, their hair^ brillies and creils Handing 

 up an end. 



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