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food it gives him milk it gives him cloath- 

 ing and carries him wrapped in fur, and 

 feated in his fledge, with amazing velocity 

 from one defert to* another. 



Thus moft of the forefts of the earth became 

 the pofleflion of the brute creation. In the 

 foreft of Sumatra, we are told, that wild- 

 beafts at this very day, depopulate whole 

 villages *. In other favage countries, man and 

 beafl are ftill joint-tenants ; yet in general, 

 even the barbarian is taught by example to 

 leave the foreft for a more convenient abode. 



* See Marfden's hift. of Sumatra. 



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