STUDY XI. I7T 



This is not the place for bringing forward the 

 relations which vegetables have to animals. It is 

 fufficient to obferve, as we go along, that mofl 

 birds re-fow the vegetable which feeds them. Nay, 

 we find, without going from home, quadrupeds 

 which convey to a great diflance the feeds oT the 

 graffes. Such, among others, as do not chew the 

 cud, horfes for inftance, whofe dung is hurtful to 

 the meadows, for an obvious reafon, they intro- 

 duce into them a variety of foreign herbs, as thé 

 heath and the fhort furze, the feeds of which they 

 are unable to digeft. They re-fow, befides, a 

 great many others, which adhere to their hair, 

 by the motion of their tail fimply. There are 

 quadrupeds of fmall fize, fuch as the dormoufe, 

 the hedge-hog, and the marmot, which convey to 

 the mod elevated regions of the mountains, acorns, 

 beech-maft, and cheftnuts. 



It is fingularly worthy of remark, that volatile 

 feeds are produced in much greater number than 

 thofe of other fpecies ; and in this, we are called 

 upon to admire the intelligence of that Providence 

 which forefaw every thing, and arranged all ac- 

 cordingly. The elevated fituations for which they 

 are deflined, were expofed to be fpeedily ftripped 

 of their vegetables, by the declivity of their foil, 

 and by the rains, which have a continual tendency 

 to lower them. By means of the volatility ef grains, 



they 



