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garbage, to increafe the valour and flrength 

 of this progeny. The Huntfman nourifhes 

 his clofe-begotten Utter with ilieeps trotters, 

 to Invigorate their heels, and Belinda gives 

 her little Oronoko brandy, to make him 

 good for nothing but to look on, to con- 

 trad his growth into a petit epitome of her 

 tres beau Philander. 



But, notwithflanding the effeds of hu-^ 

 man induftry and contrivance are thus great 

 and numerous, yet they are not infinite j; 

 there is flill a ne plus to which they are 

 llinted, nor can all our devices add one new 

 fpecies to the works of the Creation. Na- 

 ture is flill uniform as to the main ^ the Al- 

 mighty Creator is not to be imitated by 

 fhort-handed mortals : in fpite of art our 

 mules will all be barren -, nor can the mofl 

 cunning projector produce one amphigeneous 

 animal that will increafe and multiply. 

 There appears a difcind; fpeciiic diiference 

 in all living creatures ; the Horfe, the Dog, 

 the Bear, the Goat, however diverfified by 

 art or accident in fize. or figure, will ever 

 difcover fomething that appropriates to them 

 thofe names or characters j and, above all 



other 



