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prehended in the benediction which it's Author 

 pronounced upon our firft parents, faying unto 

 them * : " Behold, I have given unto you every 

 " herb bearing feed, which is upon the face of all 

 te the Earth, and every tree, in the which is the 

 " fruit of a tree yielding feed, after it's kind: to 

 " you it fhall be for meat : and to every beaft of 

 " the Earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to 

 lc every thing that creepeth upon the Earth, 

 " wherein there is life, I have given every green 

 " herb for meat." 



This benediction is not confined, as far as Mart 

 is concerned, to fome primordial fpecies in each 

 genus. It is extended to the whole vegetable 

 kingdom, which converts itfelf into aliment fit for 

 his ufe, by means of the domeftic animals. Lin- 

 nam has prefented to them, from the eight to the 

 nine hundred plants which Sweden produces, and 

 he remarked that, of thefe, the cow eats two hun- 

 dred and eigty-lix; the goat, four hundred and 

 fifty-eight ; the fheep, four hundred and feven- 

 teen ; the horfe, two hundred and feventy-eight ; 

 the hog, one hundred and feven. The firft animal 

 refufes only one hundred and eighty-four of them; 

 the fécond, ninety-two ; the third, one hundred 

 and twelve; the fourth, two hundred and feven -, 



' Genefis, chap. i. ver. 29, 30. 



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