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are impatient of cold, and who are nourished only by 

 the produce of the spring or summer? To prevent 

 ..their total destruction, the; wise preserver of the world 

 has s ordered, that in the first place, those which are 

 impatient of cold, should have such a peculiar struc- 

 ture of body, as during that season, not to suffer any 

 waste nor consequently need any . recruit. Hence 

 many sorts of birds, and almost all insects, pass the 

 whole winter without any food ; and most of them 

 without any respiration. It seems all motion of the 

 animal juices is extinct. For though cut in pieces 

 they do not awake, nor does any fluid ooze out at the 

 wound. This sleep therefore is little less than death, 

 and .their waking, than a resurrection : when the 

 returning sim revives them and their food together. 



The next provision is for such creatures as can bear 

 the cold, but would want food. This is provided 

 against in some, by along patience of hunger* in others, 

 by their wonderful instinct, in laying up food before 

 hand, against the approaching winter. By some of 

 these, their little treasuries are at the proper season 

 well stocked with provisions. Yea, whole fields are 

 here and there bespread with the fruits of the neigh- 

 bouring trees laid carefully up in the earth, and co- 

 vered safe by provident little animals. 



5. And what a prodigious act is it of the Creator's 

 indulgence to the poor, shiftless irrationals, that they 

 are already furnished with* such clothing, us is proper 

 to their place and business! With hair, with feathers, 

 with shells, or with firm armature, all nicely accom- 

 modated 5 as well to the element wherein they live, as 

 to their several occasions there. To beasts, hair is a 

 commodious clothing ; which .together with the apt 

 texture of their skin, fit them in all weathers to lie on 

 the ground, and to do their service to man. The 

 thick and warm fleeces of others* are a good defence 

 against the cold and wet, and also a soft bed : yea, 

 and to many a comfortable covering for their tender 

 young. 



