STUDY I. 6î 



the lama of Peru, who delights in the fnows at the 

 foot of the Andes, and whom Nature has clothed 

 in the fined of wool ? A little mofs, a few rufhes 

 of their own country, would be enough to fix them 

 in ours. 



Attempts have frequently been made, I admit, 

 to propagate the breed of foreign animals in our 

 parks, by obferving even the choice of thofe fpe- 

 cies whofe native climate came nearefl to ours ; 

 but they all languifh and die, becaufe no care was 

 taken to tranfplant with them their proper vege- 

 table. You fee them always reftlefs, with the 

 head hanging down, fcratching up the ground, as 

 if demanding from it the nourifhment which they 

 had loft. A fingle herb would have been fufHcient 

 to quiet them, by recalling the taftes of their early 

 life, the breezes which ufed to fan them, the cool 

 fountains and refrefhing fhades of their native coun- 

 try: lefs unhappy, hovvever, than Man, who can be 

 cured of regret only by the total lofs of memory. 



In the FIFTH PART, we fliall fpeak of Man. 

 Every Work of Nature has prefented to us, hi- 

 therto, only partial relations; Man will furnifh 

 fuch as are univerfal. We (hall examine, firft, 

 thofe which he ftands in to the Elements. Be- 

 ginning with that of Light and Fire j we fhall 

 obferve, that his eyes are turned, not towards 



Heaven, 



