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the model of that, in which the pair were 

 born, and on which every other canary- 

 bird's neft is conftrufted, where the proper 

 materials are furnifhed. That of the pye- 

 finch, added fhe, is of much comparer 

 form, warmer, and more comfortable. 

 Pull one of them to pieces for its materials; 

 place another before thefe canary-birds, as 

 p, pattern, and fee if they will make the 

 flighteft effort to imitate their model ! No, 

 the refult of their labors will, upon in- 

 ilinftive, hereditary impulfe, be exaftly the 

 flovenly little manlion of their race ; the 

 fame with that which their parents built 

 before themfelves were hatched. The 

 Do&or could not do away the force of that 

 fingle fact, with which his fyftem w r as in- 

 compatible ; yet he maintained that fyftem 

 with philofophic fturdinefs, though expe- 

 rience brought confutation from <f thou- 

 fand fources. 



Mr. Fellowes, the eminent champion in 



our 



