STUDY XI. 



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Such are, in part, the precautions employed by 

 Providence for compenfating, in favour of Man, 

 the inconveniencies of every climate; by oppofing 

 to the qualities of the elements, contrary qualities 

 in vegetables. I fliall purfue them no farther, for 

 I believe the fubject to be inexhauftible. I am 

 perfuaded, that every Latitude, and every feafon, 

 has it's own, which are appropriated to it, and 

 that every parallel varies them in every degree of 

 Longitude. 



Vegetable Harmonies of Plants with Man, 



Were we now to examine the vegetable relations 

 of plants to Man, we ihould find them to be infi- 

 nite in number ; they are the perpetual fources of 

 our arts, of our manufactures, of our commerce, 

 and of our enjoyments ; but, in our ufual way, we 

 fliall jufl run over a few of their natural and direct 

 relations, with which Man has intermingled no- 

 thing of his own. 



To begin with their perfumes, Man appears to 

 me the only being, endowed with fenfibility, who 

 is affected by thefe. Animals, it is granted, and 

 efpecially bees and butterflies, have certain plants 

 proper to themfelves, which attract or repel 

 them by their emanations; but thefe affections 



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