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of horfe-dung, and isfurnifhed with a plough fh are 

 on his head, with which he removes the ground 

 like a labourer. There are, befides, a variety of 

 charming contrafts in the bees and the butterflies, 

 which are attracted by the flowers of the corn- 

 field, and in the manners of the birds which inha- 

 bit them. The far-travelled fwallow is continually 

 fkimming along their furface, undulating like the 

 waters of a lake; whereas the ftationary lark 

 towers above them, in a perpendicular direction, 

 within fight of her neft. The domefticated par- 

 tridge, and tranfitory quail, there find a fituatior* 

 equally favourable to both, for rearing their 

 young. The hare frequently burrows in their 

 neighbourhood, and quietly nibbles the wild- 

 thiflle. 



Thefe animals have, with Man, relations of uti- 

 lity, from their fruitfulnefs and their furs. It is 

 remarkable, that they are to be found over all the 

 corn-diftricts of Europe, and that their fpecies are 

 varied, according to all the variety of human ha- 

 bitation ; for there are different fpecies of quails, 

 partridges, larks, fwallows, and hares, adapted to 

 the plains, to the mountains, to the heaths, to 

 the meadows, to the forefts, and to the rocks. 



As to the corn-plant itfelf, it has relations in- 

 numerable with the wants of Man, and of his do- 



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