tgO STUDIES OF NATURE. 



themfelves with thofe which form the communica- 

 tion of empires. This is not, in truth, what I 

 confider as mod interefting in rural fcenery. To 

 the moft oftentatious exhibition of fplendor, I 

 have frequently preferred the view of a little ham- 

 let of fiihermen, built by the fide of a river. With 

 inexpreflible delight have I fometimes repofed, 

 under the (hade of the willows, and of the pop- 

 lars, on which were fufpended the bow-nets, com- 

 pofed of their own branches. 



I fhall now proceed, in my ufual fuperficial 

 manner, to take a rapid glance of the harmonies 

 of plants with Man ; and, in order to introduce, 

 at leaft, fomething of order into a fubject fo rich 

 in matter, I fhall farther divide thofe harmonies» 

 relatively to Man himfelf, into elementary, into 

 vegetable, into animal, and into human, properly 

 fo called, or alimentary \ 



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