DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 231 



Happy is he who lives to understand 

 Not human nature only, but explores 

 All natures, to the end that he may find 

 The law that governs each. 



WORDSWORTH. 



IT was on one of those fine September mornings, 

 when all nature looks calm and beautiful, that Dr. 

 Hastings sallied forth with his two London friends, 

 on a walk to inspect some old and interesting ruins 

 in his neighbourhood. Mr. Eames renewed the 

 conversation of the preceeding day, by asking some 

 questions respecting the various uses man derived 

 from animals generally. In the course of the con- 

 versation Dr. Hastings observed, that it was an 

 interesting fact, and in some degree corroborative 

 of the truth of revelation, that in all the coun- 

 tries of that part of the globe which was originally 

 inhabited by the human race, those animals which 

 are useful to man, and essential to his comfort 

 and convenience, are to be found. For instance, 

 the horse, cow, camel, elephant, sheep, dog, poul- 

 try, &c. But in the new world, none of these 

 were to be met with, they have been gradually 

 brought and domesticated there, by the industry 

 and perseverance of man, as the tide of popula- 

 tion increased and peopled that country. This fact 



