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time issuing decrees with a view to accasion the des- 

 truction of the larvae of the grasshopper. 



In general, wet weather is most favourable to the 

 propagation of mildew, funguses, rust, and the small 

 parasitical vegetables ; dry weather to the increase of 

 the insect tribes* Nature, amidst all her changes, is 

 continually directing her resources towards the pro- 

 duction and multiplication of life ; and in the wise and 

 grand economy of the whole system, even the agents 

 that appear injurious to the hopes, and destructive to 

 the comforts of man, are in fact ultimately connected 

 with a more exalted state of his powers and his condi- 

 tion. His industry is awakened, his activity kept 

 alive, even by the defects of climates and season. By 

 the acccidents which interfere with his efforts, he is 

 made to exert his talents, to look farther into futurity, 

 and to consider the vegetable kingdom not as a secure 

 and inalterable inheritance, spontaneously providing 

 for his wants ; but as a doubtful and insecure posses- 

 sion, to be preserved only by labour, and extended 

 and perfected by ingenuity. 



