44 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



are frequently fubjeded, of plunging into mires 

 and muds, to clear them away. 



It has always appeared to me ftrangely unac- 

 countable, that in France, where there are fuch 

 numerous and fuch judicious eftablidiments, we 

 Ihould have miniflers of fuperintendance for foreign 

 affairs, for war, the marine, finance, commerce, 

 manufactures, the clergy, public buildings, horfe- 

 manfliip, and fo on, but never one fcr agriculture. 

 It proceeds, I am afraid, from the contempt in 

 which the peafantry are there held. All men, 

 however, are fureties for each other ; and, inde- 

 pendently of the uniform ftature and configuration 

 of the Human Race, I would exad no other proof 

 that all fpring from one and the fame original. It 

 is from the puddle, by the fide of the poor man's 

 hovel, which has been robbed of the little brook, 

 whofe flream fweetened it, that the epidemic plague 

 fliall iflfue forth to devour the lordly inhabitants of 

 the neighbouring caille. 



Egypt avenges herfelf, by the pefi:ilence arifing 

 out of her canals, of the oppreffion of the Turks, 

 who prevent her inhabitants from keeping them m 

 repair. America, finking under the accumulated 

 ftrokes of Europeans, exhales from her bofom a 

 thoufand maladies fatal to Europe, and drags 

 down with her the haughty Spaniard expiring on 



her 



