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which, were we so inclined, we might adduce—ail 
of them curiously adapted by some slight variation 
to the special use of the animal in whose posses- 
sion it is found, affords a proof of design too palpa- 
ble and striking to be resisted. It is as if one 
were to go into the premises of a millwright, and 
observe the various mechanics engaged each in his 
respective department with saws of different kinds 
and dimensions, from that coarse and strong in- 
strument which divides the forest-tree into planks 
to the tiny tool employed in the more delicate la- 
bours of the workshop. He would say with un- 
hesitating certainty, here is a most useful invention, 
beautifully adapted to the various purposes of the 
artificer. The existence of one saw would be a 
proof of contrivance, but that proof is multiplied a 
hundred fold by the skill with which the contri- 
vance is modified to suit it for such numerous and 
nice operations. 
An evidence of a similar kind, but on a far more 
extensive scale, is derivable from the innumerable 
adaptations which exist between the bodily devel- 
opment of the various tribes of animals and their 
instincts and mental capacities. In our chapter on 
reason and instinct, we have entered very fully 
into this most interesting subject; and the prece- 
ding history of the faculties of the feathered race 
will afford abundant illustrations of the truths there 
contained, and we scarcely know what stronger 
proof could be required of a supreme creative In- 
telligence. | 
_In conclusion, we would observe, that there is 
something exceedingly delightful in the view which 
nature exhibits of the multiplicity and diversity of 
animated beings, each adapted to its own peculiar 
sphere, and all, at the same time, so abundant as to 
leave no large portion of the terraqueous globe 
without inhabitants. If there are differences in 
climates, there are also differences of constitutions 
