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lie descends into the bowels of the earth, and extracts 

 from thence those substances by which he is enabled to 

 reduce to his purposes the other kingdoms of nature ; he 

 contrives to render the hardest substances fluid, to separate 

 the useful metal from the useless dross ; in fine, by the 

 inscrutable wisdom of unerring providence, man is enabled 

 to apply almost every object that surrounds him to his 

 service, that availing himself cf lae benefits offered, he 

 may be induced 'to look up through nature unto nature's 

 God,' and to pay that homage so justly due to the divine 

 Author of his being ; and, that by using, as not abusing 

 the manifold blessings vouchsafed to him, he may be con- 

 tinually induced to oifer adoration and praise to the greit 

 first cause ' who in his sovereign wisdom made them all,' 



FINJS. 



W. & S. Graves, Priuterj, 

 M, Cbeapside, Londoa, 



