Animals. 



Animals, like vegetables, differ in their 

 sizes and powers, with respect to the 

 places of their growth. Those produc- 

 ed in a dry sunny soil, are strong and vi- 

 gorous, though not luxuriant : those again 

 produced in a warm and moist climate 

 are luxuriant and tender, and much lar- 

 ger than those produced in other coun- 

 tries ; as in the internal parts of South 

 America and Africa, particularly in the 

 former place, where the earth worm is 

 near a )*ard long, and an inch thick ; the 

 Serpents sometimes forty feet in length ; 

 the Bats as large as Rabbits ; Toads big- 

 ger than Ducks ; :md the Spider equal in 

 size to the English Sparrow. But in the 

 frozen regions of the north, animals are 

 scarce ; and what few there are, except 

 the .Bear, are not above half the size of 

 those in the temperate zone. 



Animals are also found to vary consid- 

 erably according to their food or climate ; 

 and there are but few of the animal 

 kingdom, (and these are they that are 

 the most useful) which are found capa- 

 ble of attending man in his peregrina- 

 tions' over the globe. In uncultivated 

 nature, the animal kingdom exceeds the 



