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JOURNAL OF A 
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumer-' 
" able, both small and great beasts." Ps. civ. 24, 25. It is well for 
them, that we have not discovered the means of hauling them up, 
to make their heads, bodies and tails assist in furnishing the tables 
of our citizens with new dainties. They, at least, live undisturbed 
by that devourer-general, Man. His pretension is vain, to claim the 
dominion over all the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and 
the fishes of the sea! That dominion was given to him in his state of 
innocence, before death came into the world by sin. Then indeed 
all inferior creatures looked up to him with love, respect, and willing 
subjection, as to a friend and patron. But now the first question com- 
monly asked by a child, when it sees or hears of any living creature, 
walking, flying, or swimming, is, " Is it good to eat?" Many com- 
mentators seem to have entirely forgotten, that by the fall of man 
he lost his dominion over other creatures, and when the Lord re- 
peats the declaration of His will concerning man after the flood, 
speaks no more of dominion^ but of " tiie dread of man" upon them, 
with permission to use them for food. 
During the following days, the weather was calm, and the rolling 
of tlie ship, occasioned by the north-west swell, proved very unplea- 
sant- We were engaged in preparing letters to send home by any 
passing ship we might meet. 
15th earlj^ a sloop hove in sight, which turned out to be a Dane, 
bound from Malaga to some Danish port. The captain went on 
board, committed our letters to the master, and made an exchange 
of some hollands for melons and raisins, Avhich as our stock of fresh 
provisions was low, was of service to us. 
Reading ]\liller's Life of Huet, a French bishop in the seventeenth 
centar}^ I found the following passage, which, perfectly according 
with the sentiments of every true Protestant Christian, I hope I 
shall not be blamed for inserting a translation of it. The venerable 
prelate, speaking of some works, v/ritten by him in the monastery 
of Aunay, proceeds — " But long before I occupied myself with 
" these subjects, I had conceived a much more important under- 
