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animals, fmce it's continuity is perfectly 

 confonant to the order of creation ? 



The chain that leads from infinite to man, 



From man to nothing. 



NIGHT THOUGHTS. 



The nourifhment of plants is next 

 confidered with a view to their health 

 and increafe ; and ingenious experiments 

 are ftatcd. The decompofition of water is 

 afferted to be one of the moil important 

 difcoveries of modern fcience. Thence 

 was demonftrated the immenfe proportion 

 of oxygene or vital air, with which water 

 is impregnated, in comparifon with air 

 which is lefs pure. A plentiful fupply of 

 water abiblutely neceffary to fertilize foil. 

 The wifdom afferted, and the means 

 pointed out, of giving artificial and falu- 

 tary moifture to arid fituations. On the 

 contrary, where the ground is naturally 

 too wet and fvvampy, the neceffity of fub- 

 terranean and fuperficial drains is enforced. 



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