188 Mr. Harvey’s Obfervations 
growth has more than half concealed their humble, 
intermediate origins.* The folitary web, fpread 
from leaf to leaf, might firft have furnifhed hints 
for the ingenious and ufeful arts of clothing mankind; 
the Bee and the Beaver may have afforded inftrac- 
tions for forming our habitations; and navigation 
mav have gained its early improvements from that 
obfervation of the feathered tribe, to which fuper- 
{tition incited many of the ancient inhabitants of the 
world. 
‘The Azmicuty has, indeed, only endowed with 
a certain, limitted knowledge thofe creatures, which 
he has fubjected to man; but on man himfelf Hg 
has bountifully beftowed an innate curiofity and 
progreffive capacity, for inquiry and fcience. This 
curiofity and this capacity meed, however, the 
guidance of Reafon, left fhort lived man fhould 
find himfelf too long bewildered in the labyrinths 
of illufory and fruitlefs objects of purfuit. ° 
But to pafs on to the fubjecét. We not only find 
that the above five fimple founds are characterized by 
double letters, but, alfo, that CH is fometimes ufed 
for 
* Erafmus in his Dialogue, upon the pronunciation of 
Greek and Latin, has humouroufly made a Bear and a Lion 
the {peakers ; and the lion gives a pretty long enumeration 
of founds, imitated by the human vojce. See Erafmi Op, 
‘vol. i. page 915. le Clerc’s Edit. Hippocrates fays, that 
a rational jife is a life of imitation. diate avbowrivyy 
pyacer ete 
Theo? dieitys. lib, 2, 
