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culation we behold with admiration the wirdom 

 of the Creator, which has made fome vegetables 

 abfolutely diiagrcable to fome animals that live 

 upon plants, while thefe plants are agreeable to 

 others. And there are plants, which are poi- 

 fonous to fome animals, which are very whole- 

 fome to others, and on the contrary. This did 

 not happen by chance, but was contrived for 

 wife purpofes. For if the Author of nature 

 had made all plants equally grateful to all kinds 

 of quadrupeds, it muft neceffarily have hap- 

 pened, that one fpecies of them being remark- 

 ably increafed, another fpecies muft have pe- 

 riflied with hunger, before it could have got 

 into better pafture i the vegetables being con- 

 fumed over a large trad of ground. But as it 

 is ordained every fpecies muft by force leave 

 certain plants to certain animals, fo that they 

 always find fomething to live upon, till they 

 meet with better pafture •, in the like manner we 

 find it contrived in relation to the plants them- 

 felves, which do not all grow in the fame coun- 

 trey, and climate ; but every plant has its place 

 appointed by the Creator, in which it grows 

 more abundantly, than any where elfe. From 

 hence we may obferve, that thofe animals, 

 which chiefly live upon particular plants, chiefly 



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