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fent Man with the furplus of her milk, and the 

 other with that of her brood. In all countries, 

 pork is the poor man's meat, unlefs religion, as 

 in Turkey, or political confiderations, as in the 

 iflands of the South Sea, deprive him of the benefit 

 of this gift of Nature. I fhall obferve, with Pliny, 

 that of all flefh it is by far the moft favoury. 

 There may be diftinguiflied in it, fays he, up to 

 fifty different reliflies. It is employed in the 

 kitchens of, the rich to give flavour to every fpe- 

 cies of aliment. In every country, I repeatit, that 

 which is beft is always moft common. 



Is. it not pafling ftrange that, when fo many 

 plants and animals exhibit proportions fo beauti- 

 ful, adaptations fo wonderful to our neceffities, 

 and proofs fo evident of a Divine Benevolence, 

 we fliould fet about colleding fliapelefs abortions, 

 pigs with a long probofcis, as if our yards teemed 

 with young elephants, and ceremoniously arrange 

 them in our cabinets, defigned to exhibit a difplay 

 of Nature ? Thofe who preferve them as invalu- 

 able curiofities, and deduce from them confe- 

 quences and doubts refpecting the intelligence of 

 their Author, do they not difcover as much want 

 of tafte, and ad: as unfairly, as one who fhould go 

 into the workfhop of a Founder, and pick up the 

 figures which had been accidentally mutilated, the 

 bubblings over of the melting-pot, and the mere 



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