no STUDIES OF NATURE. 



governments, of all thefe animals, and the continual 

 wars which they wage, you would fuppofe them a 

 multitude of foreign and hoftile nations, who are 

 on the point of deftroying each other. From their 

 conftancy in love, the perpetuity of their fpecies, 

 their wonderful harmony with all the parts of the 

 vegetable kingdom, you would receive the idea of 

 a fingle people, which had it's hereditary nobi- 

 lity, it's carpenters, it's pump-makers, and other 

 artifans. 



Other tribes hold vegetables in contempt, and 

 are adapted to the Elements, to Day, to Night, to 

 Tempefts, and to different parts of the Globe. The 

 eagle trufts her nell to the rock which lofes itfelf 

 in the clouds ; the oflrich, to the parched fands 

 of the defert ; the rofe-coloured flamingo, to the 

 mires of the Southern Ocean, The white bird of 

 the Tropic, and the black frigat, take pleafure to 

 fweep along, in company, over the vafi extent of 

 the Seas, to view, from the higheft regions of the 

 Atmofphere, the fleets of India toiling after them 

 in vain ; and to circumfcribe the Globe from Eaft 

 to Weft, difputing rapidity of flight with the Sun 

 himfelf. 



In the fame latitudes, the turtle dove and the 

 perroquet, lefs daring, travel only from ille to ifle, 

 having their young ones in their train, and picking 



up, 



