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though rarely, again branched : this is also seen in Kiitzing's 

 figure. 



Mr. Harvey, in his " Manual," writes, " Of this beautiful 

 plant, I have seen no British specimens. I introduce it on 

 the authority of a note in the late Mr. Templeton's MS., 

 whose well-known accuracy leaves no room to doubt his 

 correctness in this instance, though he has not preserved a 

 specimen in his * Herbarium.' " 



" It may be (for ought I know, and as some Divines have thought) part 

 of our Business and Employment in Eternity, to contemplate the Works 

 of God, and give him the Glory of his Wisdom, Power and Goodness, 

 manifested in the Creation of them. I am sure it is part of the Business 

 of a Sabbath day, and the Sabbath is a Type of that Eternal Rest ; for 

 the Sabbath seems to have been first instituted for a Commemoration of 

 the Works of the Creation from which God is said to have rested upon 

 the Seventh Day. It is not likely that Eternal life shall be a torpid and 

 unactive State, or that it shall consist only in an uninterrupted and endless 

 Act of Love ; the other Faculties shall be employed as well as the Will 

 in Actions suitable to, and perfective of their Nature ; especially the 

 Understanding, the Supreme Faculty of the Soul, which chiefly differ- 

 enceth us from brute Beasts, and makes us capable of Virtue and Vice 

 of Rewards and Punishments, shall be busied and employed in contem- 

 plating the Works of God and observing the Divine Art and Wisdom 

 manifested in the Structure and Composition of them, and reflecting 

 upon their Great Architect the Praise and Glory due to Him, then shall 

 we clearly see to our great Satisfaction and Admiration the Ends and 

 Uses of these Things which here are either too subtle for us to penetrate 

 and discover, or remote and too inaccessible for us to come to a distinct 

 View of." Ray. 



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