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assured, one year with another, neither in- 

 creasing nor diminishing, the means of sub- 

 sistence being their limit, there being no other ; 

 for they are most jealous of rights as to 

 quarters, as much so as if they were fully 

 indoctrinated in the principles we are talking 

 about. If one ventures to pass his boundary 

 into an adjoining quarter, he is immediately 

 attacked ; and woe befall him, unless he is able 

 to make a precipitate retreat. 



PISCATOK. It is curious to trace the resem- 

 blances that are observable in the societies of 

 animals and of men, and how many qualities 

 they have in common. An interesting book I 

 have no doubt might be written on the subject 

 by a competent person, tending to show that the 

 line between instinct and reason, or, more pro- 

 perly speaking, intelligence, is nowise a strongly 

 marked one ; that in some degree, in propor- 

 tion to the similitude of organisation, there 

 is a similitude of nature, and that the highest 

 in the scale amongst brutes are but little in- 

 ferior to the lowest in the scale of our own 

 species ; in other words, inasmuch as the 

 reasoning faculty is connected with the brain 

 in man, so may the instinctive faculty be con- 



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