STUDY I. I I 



Such, therefore, muft have been my ftrawberry 

 plant, and it's natural inhabitants, in the eyes of 

 my winged infecfts, which had alighted to vifit it ; 

 but though I had been able to acquire, with them, 

 an intimate knowledge of this new world, I was 

 flill very far from having the Hlftory of it. I muft 

 have, previoully, ftudied it's relations to the other 

 parts of Nature; to the Sun which expands it's 

 bloflbm, to the winds which fow it's feeds over and 

 over, to the brooks whofe banks it forms and em- 

 bellifhes. I muft have known, how it was pre- 

 ferved in Winter, during a cold capable of cleav- 

 ing ftones afunder ; and how it (hould appear ver- 

 dant in the Spring, without any pains employed to 

 preferve it from the froft ; how, feeble and crawl- 

 ing along the ground, it fhould be able to find it's 

 way, from the deepeft valley, to the fummit of the 

 Alps, to traverfe the Globe from north to fouth, 

 from mountain to mountain, forming, on it's paf- 

 fage, a thoufand charming pieces of chequered 

 work, of it's fair flowers, and rofe-coloured fruit, 

 with the plants of every other climate ; how it has 

 been able to fcatter itfelf from the mountains of 

 Cachemire to Archangel, and from the Felices, in 

 Norway, to Kamfchatka; how, in a word, we find it, 

 in equal abundance, in both American Continents, 

 though an infinite number of animals is making 

 inceffant and univerfal war upon ir, and no gar- 

 dener is at the trouble to fow it again. 



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