So STUDIES OF NATURE. 



fprcading top and flender bafe, prefents the ap- 

 pearance of a pyramid inverted. The forefts of 

 the South will exhibit fimilar harmonies, and we 

 (hall find them even in the herbage of our mea- 

 dows. 



The fame oppofitions reign in the animal king- 

 dom ; and, to inftance only in fuch as are mod 

 familiar to us, the bee and the butterfly, the hen 

 and the duck, the indigenous fparrow and ram- 

 bling fwallow, the nimble courfer and fluggifh ox, 

 the patient afs and capricious goat ; in a word, 

 the cat and dog, difplay an endlefs contrafl, on 

 our flower-beds, in the meadow, in our houfes, of 

 forms, of movements, of inftinéls. 



I do not comprehend, in thefe harmonical op- 

 pofitions, the carnivorous animals, which make 

 war on the others, and whofe correfponding inter- 

 courfe regards them not as living, but as dead. I 

 underfland by contrafl, that which Nature has 

 eflablifhed between two clafTes, different in man- 

 ners, in inclinations, and in figures, and to which, 

 neverthelefs, fhe has given certain fecret fympathe- 

 tic fcnfibilities, which engage them, in their natu- 

 ral flate, to inhabit the fame places, to affociate 

 together, and to live in peace. Such is the con- 

 trafl of the horfe, who delights to gallop about in 

 the fame field where the ox walks gravely on, ru- 

 minating 



