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de to the fabric, although the endless relations of quantity 
continue to afford inexhaustible topics for the researches of 
theoretical mathematics, and we may add also, innumera- 
ble practical applications of these theoretical speculations. 
After all the labour that has been bestowed on the subject, 
tha 
of natural things has not been exhausted,—in a word, Natural 
History and Chemistry continue to afford an endless variety 
of topics of observation and research. Every year new 
minerals, animals and plants present themselves to the min- 
eralogist, the zoologist and the botanist, respectively ; this is 
true, even in the oldest countries, in - those that have been 
the most conspicuous and important objects have been al- 
ready observed and described, and particular naturalists 
e, in a sense appropriated them as their peculiar prop- 
erty ; it is also true that in new countries conspicuous subjects 
itmostotit 
minute and less valuable than those that were before discov- 
, and tk often —— 
rather on the rs of the field, than thinnest 
certain the composition of bodies, the rs is —— 
ly different. It is, in all probability, in its very nature, 
exhaustable. Its domain being co-extensive with the cco 
ical creation, (or rather with that portion of it which is ac- 
sis of all things, in earth sea and air. It is required of it 
to unfold, not merely the i state of combination, 
in which the parts exist, but to discover as well their, ulti- 
deed, it is obvious, that this certainty can never be attained, 
for were the great number of elementary bodies, now ad- 
