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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 moil of the forefts of the earth became 

 the poffeffion 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 

 beaft 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. 



SECT. 



