£20 on animal and vegetable’ food. Nov. 28. 
of vegetables, and the greater is) their utility. _ 
Mankind, upon the whole, however inconsistent 
they may seem, have every where, in regard tofood, 
cloathing, and lodging, submitted to the laws of the 
inexhaustible varieties of nature; and, if we meet 
with striking deviations from these laws, yet we-al- 
most always find, that even these seemingly unnatu- 
ral nae prions have their natural causes. 
fit was the design of nature that the dreary 
wastes and wilds of Lapland, the naked fhores. of the 
frozen ocean, which bear neither tree nor fhrub, the 
coasts of Greenland and Labrador, covered with eter- 
nal ice, and the horrid desarts of Terra del Fuego, 
not to mention other countries of similar effect, fhould 
ot remain totally uninhabited by man, how could 
fhe have made the use of mixed nourifhment a necef- 
sary and inviolable law to the human race? Whence 
‘was man to procure,the nutritive plants, or roots, 
or fruits of trees, in regions where the bosom of the 
earth is bound up for the greatest part of the year ; 
and its surface either covered with a height of snow, 
or hardened by a depth of frost, or is totally de- 
prived of all fertility? Providence, with adorable 
wisdom, rather created the human body of ‘such 
complying materials, that it yields to every climate, 
afsumes the impulse of every zone, and can satisfy 
the new wants arising from local alteration, without 
danger of destruction. The constant use of flefh 
meats is as natural and salutary to the inhabitants 
of Terra del. Fuego, the Esquimaux, the Samoides 
and their brethren, as the most. choice combinations 
ef vegetable and animal provisions are to us. With- 
