70 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



for him, in every famil)^ of vegetables, and over 

 every latitude of the Globe. She permits the 

 plants v^'hich are moft ufeful to him to grow in all 

 climates ; the domeftic plants, from the cabbage 

 up to the corn, alone, like Man himfelf, are citi- 

 zens of the World. The others ferve for his bed, 

 for his roof, for his clothing, for medicine, at 

 leaft for fuel. And, in order that there might be 

 no one but what (hould contribute to the fupport 

 of his life, and that the diftance, or ruggednefs of 

 the foil in which they grow might interpofe no ob- 

 obftacle to his enjoyment of them. Nature has 

 formed certain animals to feek them out for him, 

 and to convert them to his ufe. 



Thefe animals are formed, in the moft wonder- 

 ful manner, at once to live in fituations the moft 

 rugged, and, animated by an inftindt the moft 

 tradlable, to affociate with Man. The lama of 

 Peru, with his forked feet, armed with two fpurs, 

 fcrambles over the precipices of the Andes, and 

 bring^s back to him his rofe- coloured fleece. The 



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rein-deer, with her broad and cloven hoof, traverfes 

 the fnows of the North, and fills for him her dugs 

 diftcnded with cream, in the mofly paftures. The 

 afs, the camel, the elephant, the rhinoceros, are 

 detached, on his fervice, to the rocks, to the 

 fands, to the mountains, and to the m.oraffes of the 



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