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proportion of animals, which range in a higher 

 clafs. 



With animal life, I fbould not fet the tree 

 in competition. The fhape, the different- 

 coloured fur, the varied, and fpirited attitudes, 

 the character, and motion, which flrike us 

 in the animal creation, are certainly beyond 

 frill-life in it's moil pleafing appearance. I 

 mould only obferve with regard to trees, that 

 nature has been kinder to them in point of 

 variety, than even to it's living forms. Tho 

 every animal is diftinguimed from it's fellow, 

 by fome little variation of colour, character, 

 or fhape ; yet in all the larger parts, in the 

 body and limbs, the refemblance is generally 

 exact. 'In trees it is juft the reverfe : the 

 fmaller parts, the fpray, the leaves, the blof- 

 fom, and the feed, are the fame in all trees of 

 the fame kind : while the larger parts are whol- 

 ly different : you never fee two oaks with an 

 equal number of limbs, the fame kind of head, 

 and twitted in the fame form : and it is from 

 thefe larger parts, that the moft beautiful 'varie- 

 ties refult. However, as variety is not alone 



fufficient to give fuperiority to the tree -, we 

 give the preference on the whole, to animal 

 life. 



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