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the Sun on the parts of fecundation ; and, in other 

 cafes, as parafols, to put them under covert from 

 exceflive heat. 



Nature deals by them, nearly, as (he does by 

 animals which are expoied to the fame variations 

 of Latitude. In Africa, (he (trips the (heep of 

 the woolly fleece) and gives her fleek fmooth hair, 

 like that of the horfe : and to the North, on the 

 contrary, (lie clothes the horfe with the (haggy fur 

 of the (heep. I have been an eye-witnefs of this 

 double metamorphofis, at the Cape of Good- 

 Hope and in Ruffia. I have feen at Peterfburg, 

 Norman and Neapolitan horfes, whofe hair, natu- 

 rally fhort, was fo long and fo frizzled, in the 

 middle of Winter, that you would have believed 

 them covered with wool like fheep. It is not with- 

 out reafon, therefore, that the ancient proverb fays: 

 GOD tempers the wind to the floor n lamb : and when 

 I behold his paternal hand varying the fur of ani- 

 mals conformably to the degree of heat and cold, 

 1 can eafily believe, that it varies, in like manner, 

 the mirrors of flowers conformably to the Sun. 

 Flowers, then, maybe divided, with relation to 

 the Sun, into two clafles : into reverberating 

 flowers, and flowers in form of a parafol. 



If there be any confiant character in plants, we 

 mud lock for it in the fruit. It is thitherward 



l 2 that 



