STUDY X. 391, 



of Voyages and of Natural Hiftory, though their 

 -Authors fcarcely ever fpeak of thofe contrails, ex- 

 cept by chance, and without expreffing any doubt 

 about the matter. But every man will be himfelf 

 in a condition to difcover their delightful effects, 

 in what is called brute Nature, I mean that with 

 which Man has not intermeddled. Let me fug- 

 gefb the infallible means of diftinguifliing them : 

 it is fimply this, as often as a natural objeâ: pre- 

 fents to you a fentiment of pleafure, you may reft 

 affured that it exhibits fome harmonic concert. 



Beyond all doubt, animals and plants of the 

 fame climate have not received from the Sun, nor 

 from the elements, liveries fo varied, and fo cha- 

 rafteriftic. A thoufand and a thoufand new ob- 

 fervations may be made upon their contrafts. He 

 who has not feen them in their natural place, has 

 not yet become acquainted with their beauty, or 

 their deformity. Not only are they in oppofitioa 

 to the grounds of their refpeâiive habitations, but 

 they are fo likewife between themfelves, as to ge- 

 nus and genus ; and it is worthy of remark, that, 

 when thefe contrafts are efl:abliflied, they exifl; in 

 all the parts of the two individuals. We (hall 

 fpeak fomewhat of thofe of plants in the following 

 Study, by fimply glancing at that delightful and 

 inexhauftible fubjed. 



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