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"which, were we so inclined, we might adduce all 

 .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 



