STUDY XI. 207 



ture has likewife attached the principal relations 

 of the animal kingdom to the vegetable kingdom. 

 It was her intention that an animal of the moun- 

 tains mould find the fruit, on which he has been 

 accuftomed to live, in the plains, on the fand, 

 among the rocks, when he is under the neceffity 

 of changing his country, and efpecially on the 

 brink of rivers, when he defcends thither to 

 quench his thirft. I am not acquainted with a 

 fingle mountain-plant but what has fome of it's 

 fpecies, with their correfponding varieties, fcattered 

 over all fituations, but principally on the margin 

 of waters. 



The mountain-pine has it's kernels mounted 

 on wings, and the aquatic pine has it's feed in- 

 clofed in a fkiff. The feeds of the thiftle, which 

 grows on a parched foil, are furniflied with 

 plumes, to convey them from place to place : 

 thofe of the fullers-thiftle, which thrives by the 

 water's fide, have none, becaufe they had no occa- 

 fion for any to affift them in Avimming. Their 

 flowers vary for fimilar reafons ; and though Bo- 

 tanifts have made two different genera of them, 

 the goldfinch fails not to acknowledge this laft as 

 a real thiftle. He refts himfelf upon it, when he 

 finds it convenient to go and cool himfelf on fome 

 watery bank. He forgets, on beholding his fa- 

 vourite plant, the fandy downs where he was 



born, 



