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marvellous property of the incomprehensible nature of our 

 God, that He delights in all His creatures. By having 

 made some classes of organized beings wondrously small, 

 He proves in their fabrication and subsistence, to every 

 order of nature, that no part of it has existed without His 

 thought, nor is too petty for His notice, nor unworthy of 

 His care. Whatever He has made that we deem as nothing 

 in comparison with ourselves, are yet in this view heralds of 

 comfort and confidence to us ; for the inference becomes 

 irresistible indeed it has been made for us by the greatest 

 of all authorities that if He can make and regard such 

 inconsiderable organizations of nature, He will never be 

 indifferent or inattentive to us. This was the principle of 

 that exhilarating assurance pregnant with comfort to the 

 humblest tenant of humanity because unconfinable in its 

 application," 



" Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? Fear not : Ye are of more 

 value than many sparrows." 



(Note to page 15, line 8.) 



In an account of the wreck of the Wager, in May, 1741, and sub- 

 sequent sufferings of the crew, the narrative proceeds to give an instance 

 of the rapid increase of Pediculi when aided by disease and filth. 



" About the middle of March, 1742, they again embarked on their 

 wretched voyage, and shortly after, Mr. Elliot the Surgeon died, being 

 miserably starved to death -, and, indeed, from the deplorable state to which 

 the survivors were reduced, they all bid fair to follow, and to add to their 

 distress, they were so swarming with vermin that it was impossible to rest. 



" But we were clean in comparison to Captain Cheap, for J could compare 

 his body to nothing but an ant-hill, with thousands of the Insects crawling 

 over it ; for he was now past attempting to rid himself in the least of this 

 torment, as he had quite lost himself, not recollecting our names that were 

 about him, or even his own." 



UNITED SERVICE MAG. No, cnx. p. 169, 1842. 



