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so it is possible, that the facts here related, and 
these instances of nature animated in a part 
hitherto unsuspected, may excite the like pleas- 
ing ideas in others ; and, in minds more capa- 
cious and penetrating, lead to farther discoveries, 
farther proofs, (should such yet be wanting,) that 
One infinitely wise, good, all-powerful Being has 
made, and still upholds, the Whole of what is 
good and perfect ; and hence we may learn, that, 
if creatures of so low an order in the great scale 
of Nature, are endued with faculties that enable 
them to fill up their sphere of action with such 
Propriety, we likewise, who are advanced so 
many gradations above them, owe to ourselves, 
and to Him who made us and all things, a 
constant application to acquire that degree of 
Rectitude and Perfection, to which we also are 
endued with faculties of attaining." — Ellis on 
Corallines, p. 103. 
GEOL. G G 
