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sects ingendred therein. Some products we ob- 

 serve them to be naturally leprous, and such 

 are usually struck with morbifick deformities. 

 Some again are prolifick, and animated with 

 life ; as some others are design' d for vegetation. 

 Some earths are cold, frigid, and moist ; on the 

 contrary, some others by reason of the salinity 

 of sand, are fortified with heat almost to excess. 

 There are also various complexions of earths 

 and soils, which calify and indurate by the sun's 

 reflection, so incrustate themselves by contact 

 and connexion, that with little difficulty facili- 

 tate a warmth : so that whilst some are acci- 

 dentally cold, as ardent are othersome because 

 influenced by callifaction. But as some are na- 

 turally cold, by northern influence, destinated 

 to a marly spungeous clay ; intemperately hot 

 are othersome, by confluence of bituminous and 

 sulphureous mixts cooperating with them. Some 

 are boggy, some gravelly, some naturally fer- 

 til, othersome as naturally sterril. All which 

 demonstrate the various modification and me- 

 thods of nature, and the divine preordinate wis- 

 dom of God the Creator, whose decrees are in- 

 violable, and whose laws are irrevocable ; and 

 from whom nature in all her operations copies 

 to the life from the first original. When, there- 

 fore, seriously to consider the various families 

 of insects and animals, naturally protruded and 



