ORGANIC BODIES. 



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affluence to our eyes, among a people, which, from our 



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narrow animal 



prej 



iudices we are too readily accuflomed to call favage. Herds of 



KINGDOM 



fwine are feen on every fide ; by every hut dogs lie ftretched out at 

 their eafe, and the cock with his feraglio, flruts about, difplaying 

 his gay plumage, or perches on the fruit trees to reft. An uninter- 

 mitted chorus of fmall birds warbles on the branches all the day 

 long, and from time to time, the pigeons cooe is heard with the 



fame pleafure as in our woe 

 employed in dragging the 



ds 



O 



fea Ih 



and taki 



i, the natives are 

 iety of beautiful 



fifh, whofe dying colours change every moment.: or they pick 

 fome fhells from the reefs, which^ though well known to the na- 

 .turaliU, yet have a right to the the philofopher's attention, who ad^ 



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mires the wonderful elegance of nature alike, in her moil common 

 .as in her rarefl produdions. To enhance the fatisfadion we feel, 

 .this happy country is free from all noxious and troublefome infeds; 

 no wafps, nor mofquitoes, infeft the inhabitants, as in other tropi- 

 cal countries ; no beafts of prey, nor poifonous reptiles ever difturb 

 their tranG[uility •*. 



Let us remove from hence to the temperate zone: what a falling 

 .off from the foft fcenes of domeilic quiet, to the wilds of New- 



Bb 



Zeeland ! 



* The common flics are, indeed, .at fome feafons troublerorac, on acconnt of their im- 

 menfc numbers, but they cannot be called mxhr^s Infers : the only difagreeabie animal lu 



O-Tahekee Is .the common black rat, which i* ycij numerous there, and. often does mif- 



.chief b}^ Its 



voracity 



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