1793. curious phenomena in natural history. Ips. 
branches a study, it will probably be so to the larger 
part of your readers, or to what is commonly un- 
derstood by the word public, for which popular efsays 
are invented and calculated ; er at least fhould be go, 
in every periodical publication of the nature of the 
Bee. 
In taking 2 general view of natural history, the 
first thing that strikes us, is the wonderful order and 
arrarigement of the creation. Every species of ani- 
mai and plant is supported on the particular aliment 
allotted to it by the Supreme Being, lest the one 
fhould deprive the other of its food, and introduce 
confusion into the beautitul system; and in fact there 
is no plant hitherto discovered, which does not afford 
food to some animal, and which in its turn does not 
uire its particular food of soil, 
vein only exception to this general rule of nature, 
is the lord of the creation, MAN, who has been al- 
_ lowed a much wider range than any other animal ; 
although even he is circumscribed in some degree, 
and will be poisoned by productions which afford 
wholesome food to some other link of the chain; 
but still the positive afsertion of holy writ is per- 
fectly just, ‘‘ that every thing was made, either di- 
rectly or indirectly, for the use of man,” as even his 
potson becomes his medicine, when judiciously eme 
pleyet. ¥ 
Entomology 
lf we look still more minutely into the admirable 
system of the universe, how much will we be afhamed 
at our occasional peevifh complaints, against the nu-. 
merous swarms of reptiles and insects, which surround 
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