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cing principle of every one is disseminated, the univer- 

 sal granary -filled, and the universal board famished. 

 The buzzing insect and the creeping worm, have^each 

 his bill of fare. Each enjoys a never failing treat, equi- 

 valent to our greatest delicacies. 



" If grass was scarce as the Guernsey lilly, and as dif- 

 ficultly raised as the tuberose, how certainly, and how 

 speedily, must many millions of animals perish by. famine. 

 But as all the cattle owe their chier subsistence to this, 

 by a singular wisdom in the divine economy, it waiteth 

 not, like the corn field, and the garden bed, /or the an- 

 nual labours of man. When once sown, though ever so 

 frequently cropt, it revives with the returning season, 

 Wilh a kind of perennial verdure, it covers our meadows, 

 diffuses itself over the plains, springs up in every glade 

 of the forest, and spreads a side board in the most se- 

 questered nook. 



" Such is the care of a wise and condescending provi- 

 dence, even over these lowest formations of nature 1" 



