STUI>Y VI. ^11 



STUDY SIXTH. 



REPLY TO OBJECTIONS AGAINST PROVIDENCE, 



FOUNDED ON THE DISORDERS OF THE 



ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



WE fhall continue to difplay the fecundity of 

 Northern Regions, in order to overturn 

 the prejudice, which would afcribe this principle 

 of life, in plants and animals, only to the heat of 

 the South. I could expatiate on the numerous and 

 extenfive chaces of elks, rein-deer, water-fowls, 

 heath-cock, hares, white bears, wolves, foxes, mar- 

 tens, ermines, beavers, &c. which the inhabitants 

 of the northern diftrifts annually carry on, the 

 very peltry of which, above what they employ for 

 their own ufe, fupplies them with a very confider- 

 able branch of commerce for the markets of all 

 Europe. But I fhall confine myfelf entirely to 

 their fiflieries, becaufe thefe precious gifts of the 

 Waters are prefented to all Nations, and are no 

 where fo abundant as in the North. 



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