jis well as of deteriorated Aniinals, 35 



This picture may not be valuable for its colouring: 

 but the likeness is drawn by history and experience, 

 with the pencil of trudi. Nor is it gloomy, to those 

 who succeed this winter of dissolution. They enjoy 

 fruitful and renovated seasons; when new products, 

 more vigorous and estimable, are benignantly sent 

 forth, to retribute for those lost, by either sudden or 

 progressive, but inevitable, decadency. Nature will 

 have her course ; and to her, an age, is but as to us a day. 



For the distribution, supply and succession of animal 

 and vegetable productions^ means are established, in end- 

 less diversities ; as well as to operate the changes de- 

 signed, in the ordinary, or special course of progres- 

 sion. The human race^ though endued, by the bene- 

 ficent author of our existence, with the like organization 

 of our system, both corporeal and mental, with that of 

 our first parents, is nevertheless disposed to great vari- 

 eties, in the branches from the original stock. These 

 are numerous and operated upon, if not produced by 

 climate, means and quality of subsistence and other 

 local circumstances, as they are dispersed through differ^ 

 ent quarters of the earth ; like the trees of the forest or 

 the plants of the field. Although none of the human 

 species may be said to be, in their nature, strictly indi- 

 genous, as it respects any particular hemisphere, or 

 district of the globe ; yet they become, in due time, ac 

 commodated (as are other animals) to the situation, in 

 which they are doomed to live ; and successions, and 

 changes, of individuals continually occur. A diversity 

 in their successions is seen, as one race, or variety, is 

 located, or displaces another. The power of locomotioji 

 is given to us ; and a disposition to change, is implant- 



