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an imitation of the works of the Omnipotent, 

 Sometimes, being for a moment thoughtlefs of 

 the Great Source of nature, I have vainly fan- 

 cied my faint imitations of her works in fome 

 degree complete ; but, on the leafl; recolle61:ion, 

 a flow, awful, majeflic voice feemed to reprove 

 me thiis : Vain and prefumptupus wretch ! doft 

 Ithou imagine thy faint endeavours can bear the 

 leaft comparifon with the v/orks of him that cre- 

 mated thee and all things ? 



Amongft animals there are, in refpeft to their 

 fight and time of adion, diurnal, noÛurnal, and 

 fuch as a6t in the morning and evening twilight. 

 Amongft the firft may be placed men and mon- 

 keys, from the Homo Sylvejlris down to the 

 fmalleft fpecies of monkeys properly fo called. 

 Not long fince I had a little monkey of St. 

 Jago, who was fo very nimble, that, when he 

 got loofe in a fmall room, I could not catch 

 him; but, on fhutting the light out of the 

 room, I could take him prefently. Birds of the 

 granivorus kind are, I believe, all diurnal : and 

 birds of prey are divided into diurnal and 

 nodurnal ; though many of thofe efteemcd di- 

 urnal 



