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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 leaft recolledion, 

 a flow, awful, majeftic voice fcemed to reprove 

 me thus : Vain and prefumptuous wretch ! doft 

 thou imagine, thy faint endeavours can bear the 

 leaft comparifon with the works of him that cre- 

 ated thee and all things ? 



Amongft animals there are, in refpeâ: to their 

 fight and time of adion, diurnal, nodurnal, and 

 fuch as ad in the morning and evening twilight. 

 Amongft the firft may be placed men and mon- 

 keys, from the Homo Sylveftris 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 fliutting 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 

 no6l:urnal ; though many of thofe efteemed di- 

 urnal 



