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have stated among their other uses, tend to make 

 the place more salubrious. 



Another point worth attending to in the con- 

 sideration of poisonous plants, is the fact that 

 they grow in places remote from man, in unen- 

 closed fields and marshy swamps, and that too, 

 generally in formidable singleness ; while those 

 necessary to man, grow in families, and near 

 him, as potatoes, palms, bananas, and the dif- 

 ferent sorts of grain ; all of these last covering 

 entire fields with their harvests. 



L. The editor of ANIMATED NATURE ILLUS- 

 TRATED, makes a similar remark in relation 

 to animals, observing that all destined to serve 

 his uses and pleasures, are gregarious, or are 

 found in great numbers around him, as the com- 

 mon fowls, horses, sheep, goats, and rabbits ; 

 while the destructive animals, as the lion, tiger, 

 leopard, and eagle, live far from him, and kave 

 no fellowship even with their own kinds, so that 

 they are few and far between. 



E. To confirm the views we have considered, 

 it is noted as a remarkable fact, that in cold cli- 

 mates, are neither poisonous plants nor ven- 

 omous animals. Remove them to the north 

 and they will either die or lose their noxious 



