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confider the rattle which terminates this fer- 

 pent's tail. For by the means of that we have 

 an opportunity of guarding againft this dread- 

 full enemy ; the found warning us to fly, 

 which if we were not to do, and we fliould be 

 wounded by him, the whole body would be 

 turned into a putrid corruption in fix hours, 

 nay fometimes in half an hour. 



The limits of this dilTertation will not permit 

 me to produce more examples of this kind. 

 But whoever will be at the pains to take ever 

 fo (light a view of the wonderfull works of the 

 Creator, will readily fee, how wifely the plan, 

 order and fitnefs of things to divine ends are 

 difpofed. 



§. 16' 



We cannot without the utmoft admiration 

 behold how providently the Creator has a6led 

 as to the prefei*vation of thofe animals, which 

 at a certain time of the year, are by the rigor 

 of the feafon excluded from the neceffaries of 

 life. Thus the dear in the autumn creeps into 

 the jjjofs^ which he has gathered, and there 

 lies all winter •, fubfilling upon no other nou- 

 rifliment but his fat, colle6led during the 

 fummer in the cellulous membrane, and which 



without 



