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employment of the means, with which a bountiful Providence 

 has abundantly supplied him. The nourishment of Man's body 

 in health, his restoration in disease, the clothing that covers him, 

 the varied hues which he can communicate to this, the colours 

 which delight his eye in the ve-rdant landscape, or in the skilfully 

 painted picture, the odours which refresh his senses, the timber 

 of which his habitations, his manufactories, his ships, are partly 

 or wholly constructed, these are but a few of the provisions, 

 which the benevolence of the Creator has made for his comfort, 

 in the organisation of the Vegetable World. Who, then, shall 

 say, that it is less fertile in the evidences of a Designing Provi- 

 dence, than the Animal Creation ? 



