^i STUDIES OF NATURE. 



ments of which I have fpoken, and a multitude of 

 others, which I have neither time nor talents to 

 unfold. We (hall remark, firft, that this natural 

 affe(5tion difclofes, in every being, it's principal 

 charadter, by giving it all the advantage of a com- 

 plete extenfion. Thus, for example, it is in the 

 feafon when each plant re-perpetuates itfelf by it's 

 flowers and it's fruit, that it acquires all it's per« 

 feflion, and the charafters which invariably deter- 

 mine it. It is in the feafon of loves that the birds 

 of fong redouble their melody, and that thofe 

 which excel in the beauty of their colouring, ar- 

 ray themfelves in their fineft plumage, the various 

 fliades of which they delight to difplay, by fwcl- 

 ling their throats, by rounding their tail into the 

 form of a wheel, or by extending their wings along 

 the ground. It is then that the lufty bull prefents 

 his forehead, and threatens with the horn ; that 

 the nimble courfer frifks along the plain ; that the 

 ferocious animals fill the forefts with the dreadful 

 noife of their roaring, and that the tigrefs, exhaling 

 the odour of carnage, makes the folitudes of Africa 

 to refound with her hideous yells, and appears 



the Hiftory of a Nation of Greece, well known to the Poets, be- 

 caufe it lived conformably to Nature, and, for that very reafon, 

 almoft altogether unknown to our political Writers; but time 

 permitted me only to trace the outline of it, or, at moft, to finifh 

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