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é {tantly 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 fill 
* trace and revere the ways of a be- 
** neficent Being, who not fortui- 
** toufly, but with defign, not in 
“‘ wrath, but in mercy, thus fhakes 
“« the waters and the air together, to 
‘¢ bury in the deep thofe putrid and 
Bg Se effuvia which the ve- 
= pon the face of the 
a ae ni aoa infufficient to con- 
sume.” Lindl 
Since I read that elegant difcourfe, 
1 have withed that fome induftrious 
philofopher would beftow his labour 
“3 in tracing Nature in its operations, 
and in difcovering the manner in 
~which the vegetable Kingdom» is 
fubfervient to the animal, in cor- 
b recting 
