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rearim them into Mountains, and carrying other Parts which ^ have lam 
hivh into the Sea\ Jo that in tnany Places we find buried in high Moun- 
-tains far Inland, Subfiances which received their firft Formation in the 
Sea, and in fome low Grounds deep buried near the Sea, we find many 
risings that received their firfi Forms in the Mountains. It is probable 
fome ofthefe great Revolutions might be Jo widespread at once, as utterly 
to extinvuifh fome Anitnals that were in God s original Creation oj this 
World. , 
If we confider the beautiful Parts of Nature, fo far as they charm 
the Sight by the lufire and variety of Colours, and the finenefs of the 
Texture of Parts, I think many will agree, that the fine Things prodded 
may charm the Eye, as much as the mofi fiudied and harmonious Com- 
pofitions in Mufiick can charm the Ear. But it is common to fay, that 
People who have no delight in Mufick, have no Ear : And I think, we 
may as jufily fay of thofe who are no ways moved to Admiration, when 
the Beauties of Nature prefent themfelves, that they want Eyes. Whether 
or not Nature defignd the beautiful Forms and Colourings we perceive in 
feveral kinds of InfeSls and other Animals, as things to delight and pleafe 
the Senfe of thofe Animals and others of the brute Creation : Or whether 
they were defign d principally for the Delight and Contemplation of Man 
the Lord of this lower World, is a ^uefiion. A Reafon in my Opinion, 
why InfeEls are not fenfible of their o%vn Beauty, is the Form of their Eyes, 
which kt in the Light through a kind of ^ Net-work, which mufi dfcover 
the ObjeSls in a confufed manner ; or if we Juppofe each little part a 
diflina F.ye, they are fo fmall that an ObjeB mufi almofi touch them, 
to be diJlinBly perceived in its Parts, and the Quantity taken in at once 
fo fmall, that the intire Form of one Infea can hardly appear plain to 
another ; thefe Eyes may indeed ferve them to dfiinguijlo opake Bodies from 
the clear Air they fly in, and when they approach very near to pick oiit 
fmall Particles lying on Leaves and Fruits which f apply mofi InfeBs with 
^°°Now feeing the Eyes of Man feem to be more adapted than thofe of 
• InfeBs to receive the various Forms and Colours of natural Things, 1 am 
of Opinion that God principally defignd thefe things not only to pleafe and 
delkht the outward Senfes of Man, but that the Contemplation of them 
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