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beftowed this inftinctof fociability with Man, only 

 on thofe whofe fer vices might be ufeful to him at 

 all feafons ; and fhe has given them a configuration 

 wonderfully adapted to the different afpects of the 

 vegetable kingdom. 



I fay nothing of the camel of the Arabian, which 

 can travel under a load, for feveral days together, 

 without drinking, in traverfing the burning fands 

 of Zara ; nor of the rein-deer of the Laplander, 

 whofe deeply-cleft hoof can faften, and run along, 

 on the fuiface of the fnow ; nor of the rhinoceros of 

 the Siamefe and of the Peguan, who, with the folds 

 of his /kin, which he can dittend at pleafure, is 

 able to difengage himfelf out of the marlhy grounds 

 of Siriam ; nor of the Afiatic elephant, whofe foot, 

 divided into five ergots, is fo fure on the fteep 

 mountains of the Torrid Zone ; nor of the lama 

 of Peru, who, with his forked feet, fcrambles over 

 the rocky heights of the Cordeliers. Every extra- 

 ordinary fituation is maintaining for Man a ufeful 

 and commodious fervant. 



But without removing from our own hamlets, 

 the fingle- hoofed horfe paftures in the plains, the 

 ponderous cow in the bottom of the valley, the 

 bounding flieep on the declivity of the hill, the 

 fcrambling goat on the fides of the rocks; the hog, 

 furni(hed with a probofcis, rakes up the morals 



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