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throughout all nature ; and from its dignity and 

 importance, as fo immediately conneded with uti- 

 lity to mankind : from all which confiderations, 

 the author thinks it entitled to one of the mofi 

 diftinguifhed ranks among the objeds of human 

 enquiry ; and that, fo far from being a frivolous 

 purfuit, it is in every view one of the worthieft 

 employments of the human mind. 



AMCENITATES ACADEMIC.^. Vol. IL 

 1752. pp. 468. 



ig. Oeconomia Nature. \J,J.Biberg. 1749. 



It is impoflible in an abftrafl to do any proper 

 juftice to this excellent production ; the defign of 

 which is entirely phyfico- theological, and confe- 

 quently its fcope is various and extenfive. The 

 writer firft confiders, in general, the Stru^fure of 

 the Earthy its feas, mountains, &c. and the effects 

 of the change of feafons on all parts of its farface, 

 and on the elements : the difpofition of the FofftV 

 Kingdom^ and the various origin of its feveral bo- 

 dies, with their gradual tranfmutation \ from 

 v/hence, in many inftances, arife their different 

 denominations with us i in the Vegetable Kingdom^ 

 the various means by which the diflemination of 

 feeds is effedled, thereby cloathing in every climate 

 the whole furface of the earth, and conducing to 

 the prefervation of animals : in the Animal King^* 

 dom itfelf, the extraordinary increafe of fome, the 

 paucity of others their means of prefervation, 



and 



