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of that name, with it's well-known flavour. Na- 

 ture culled it, like the other fruits of our orchards, 

 from the table of the animal, to ferve it up on that 

 of Man ; and that it might be impoffible for us 

 to doubt refpedling her bounty and it's origin, it 

 is her fovereign will that the feeds fliould re-pro- 

 duce crabs only. Ah ! if (he were to fufpend her 

 particular laws of beneficence in the gardens of 

 our mifcreants, in order to eflablilh in them her 

 pretended general laws, what would be their aflo- 

 nifhment to find nothing re-produced in their 

 kitchen-gardens and orchards, but fome miferable 

 wild carrots, pitiful dog-rofes, harfli pears, and 

 unfavoury fruits of every fort, fuch as (he pro- 

 duces, on the mountains, for the coarfe palate of 

 the wild boar! They would, in truth, find ftems 

 of trees lofty and vigorous. Their orchards 

 would be doubled in fize, and the crops reduced 

 to one half. 



The fame metamorphofis would take place in 

 the animals of their farm-yards. The hen, which 

 lays eggs much too large in proportion to her fize, 

 and that for nine months uninterruptedly, con- 

 trary to all the laws of incubation among the fea- 

 thered race, would then fall back into the general 

 order, and would produce, at fartheft, twenty eggs 

 in the courfe of a year. The hog would, in like 

 manner, lofe his fuperfluous fat. The cow, which 



yields. 



