STUDY XI. ZIJ 



birds, and of fifties, which do nothing but migrate 

 inceflantly over the Earth and through the Seas ; 

 fome, in a certain revolution of days ; others, at 

 the end of a certain period of years. Many plants 

 may be fubjedted to a fimilar deftiny. This Law 

 extends even to the Heavens,. in which fome new 

 (far is, from time to time, making it's appearance. 

 Nature, as I think, has difpofed her Works in 

 fuch a manner, as to have always fome novelty in 

 referve, in order to keep Man continually in ex- 

 ercise. She has eftablifhed, in the duration of the 

 exiflence of the different beings of each kingdom, 

 concerts of a moment, of an hour, of a day, of a 

 moon, of a year, of the life of a man, of the du- 

 ration of a cedar, and, perhaps, of that of a globe: 

 but this, undoubtedly, is known to the Supreme 

 Being alone. 



1 am perfuaded, at the fame time, that thé 

 greater!: part of flitting plants muft have a princi- 

 pal centre, fuch as a fteep rock, or an ifland in 

 the midft of the Sea, from whence they diffufe 

 themfelvCi' over all the reft of the world. This 

 leads me to deduce, what I confider as an irrefra- 

 gable argument in fupport of the recent Creation 

 of our Globe; it is this, were the Globe of very 

 remote antiquity, all the poflible combinations of 

 the propagation of plants by ked, would have been 

 already completed all over the World. Thus, for 



example, 



