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** ftantly the winds convey to them 

 *' our vitiated air for our relief, and 

 " for their nourifhment* And if 

 " ever thefe falutary gales rife to 

 " ftorms and hurricanes, let us frill 

 " trace and revere the ways of a be- 

 " neficent Being, who not fortui- 

 " touily, but with defign, not in 

 " wrath, but in mercy, thus fhakes 

 " the waters and the air together, to 

 " bury in the deep thole putrid and 

 " peffilential effluvia which the ve- 

 ** getables upon the face of the 

 K earth had been infumcient to con- 

 « fume." 



Since I read that eleeant difcourfe, 

 I have wifhed that fome induif rious 

 philofopher would bellow his labour 

 in tracing Nature in its operations, 

 and in difcoverino- the manner in 



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which the vegetable kingdom is 



fubfervient to the animal^ in cor- 



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