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great queftion of creation, I felt humbled at 

 the idea that, in the wide fcale of worlds, 

 even man might be of little more importance 

 than the minutefl infed — perhaps not more 

 than the very flea or mufquito whofe only 

 purpofe in creation feemed to be that of ... . 

 tormenting him ! Ptirfuing its wan- 

 derings my mind ranged into the infinity of 

 fpace, and there roved amidft the ftars, until 

 the very globe itfelf became as infignificant as 

 the fmalleft ant that moves on its furface. 

 Next occurred the infinite wifdom of the great 

 Creator — I faw every thing perfect, and hap- 

 pily ordained, glanced at the infcrutable ways 

 of Providence, and was loft in profound awe 

 and reverence, when I was fuddenly roufed from 

 my reverie, by the loud fcreaming of mon- 

 kies, and the aftounding fhrieks of a large 

 flock of parrots.— It inftantly (truck my recol- 

 ledion that there were other, and more dan- 

 gerous animals in the woods, and with the 

 full ftrength of the impreffion, as in the mo- 

 ment of waking from a dream, I felt that be- 

 fides monkies and parrots thefe woods gave 

 habitation to tigers and favages, and, worfe 

 than favages — to Bufh-Negroes, to whom the 

 fcalp of a backra man would be an object of 



