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contribute to multiply and increase his 

 enjoyments. It is to society ajone, that we 

 must attribute our conquest over so many 

 species of the feathered tribe which people 

 our farms and villages. 



The cock and hen were first caught in the 

 Indian forests, and since that period they 

 have spread over every region of the earth. 



Our canary-birds were originally brought 

 from the north ; and it is by similar migra- 

 tions among men, that civilization has been 

 gradually extended over different regions. 



The plains which surround the dwelling 

 of the husbandman, and which have been fer^ 

 tilized by the plough ; the gardens, where 

 fruits and flowers succeed each other during 

 every season i also present productions for 

 which man is equally indebted to society. 

 The luxuriant crops which enrich the plains 

 of our happy islands, are the product of a 

 plant which was only indigenous in the south- 

 ern part of Asia; yet from this plant, nourish- 

 ment has been diffused among all the nations 



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