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finite variety of movements and of actions, requiring either 

 strength, delicacy, or precision, the human arm and hand, 

 considered in their mechanism alone, are structures of unri- 

 valled excellence; and, when viewed in relation to the in- 

 tellectual energies to which they are subservient, plainly re- 

 veal to us the divine source, from which have emanated this 

 exquisite workmanship, and these admirable adjustments, so 

 fitted to excite in our breasts tlie deepest veneration, and to 

 fill us with never ceasing wonder. 



To specify all the details of express contrivance in the 

 mechanical conformation of the hand would alone fill a se- 

 parate treatise: but I must refrain from pursuing this inte- 

 resting subject, as, fortunately, the task ]|as devolved upon 

 one far more able than myself to do it justice. 



