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their services. In temperate climates, where decomposition 

 from atmospheric causes moves at so slow a rate as to require 

 adventitious aid, their number is large ; in hot and arid atmo- 

 spheres, as in the Pampas of South America, where a carcase 

 becomes dry almost before putrefaction, and where travellers 

 can make a fire of a dead horse, they are comparatively rare. 

 Contemplated thus under their aspect of usefulness, much 

 of our very natural repugnance to the gloomy habitudes or 

 unclean propensities of the beetle Scarabaeus and its indefati- 

 gable fellows, must give way to thankfulness that such crea- 

 tures exist ; also to admiration of that nice endowment of 

 adapted sensations, faculties, and powers, which direct and 

 enable them to do, in our behalf, the bidding of their Creator. 



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