112 TI)e Wisdom of GO D Parti. 



great Naturalift Pliny hath given an ingenious 

 Account of the Providence and Deiign of Nature 

 in thus arming and fencing them in thefe Words : 

 Ijide (fpeaking of Nature) excogitavit aliquas 

 aJpeBu hifpidas^ taBu truces^ ut tantum mn vocem 

 ipjius Naturce fingenth illas^ rationemque reddentis 

 exaudtre videamur^ nefe depafcat avida quadrupeSy 

 7je procaces manus rapiant^ n» negleBa vejitgia ob- 

 terant y ne i?ijidens ales ififringat ; his 7nuniendo 

 aciileis telifque armandoy remediis ut Jdha ac tut a 

 fint, Ita hoc qiioqiie quod in iis odimus hominum 

 causa excogitatum eft. 



It is worthy the noting, . that Wheats which is 

 the beft Sort of Grain, of which the purefl:, moft 

 favoury and wholfome Bread is made, is patient 

 of both Extremes, Heat and Cold, growing and 

 bringing its Seed to Maturity not only in tempe- 

 rate Countries, but alfo on one hand in the cold 

 and northern, viz. Scotland ^ Denmark ^ &c. on 

 the other, in the hotteft and moft foutherly, as 

 Egypt y Barhary y Mauritania ^ the Eajl-hzdies^ 

 Guiney, Madagafcar , &c. fcarce refufing any 

 Climate. 



Nor is it lefs obfervable, and not-to be com- 

 memorated without Acknowledgment of the 

 divine Benignity to us, that (as Fliny rightly 

 notes) nothing is more fruitful than Wheat ^ 

 ^od ei natura (faith he) \t^e5lius nature Fa- 

 rens\ tribuit ^ quid eo maxime ko?ninem alit^ ut- 

 pote cim e modio^ fi & aptum folum, quale in By-- 

 zacio Africa campo centcni quinquaginta modit 

 reddentur. Mifit ex eo loco Divo Augujlo procu- 

 rator 



