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happens about the ftiores, where we fee vegetables 
of various kinds, on which a like variety of infeds 
are bred and nouriftied. Thefe, together with a pro- 
digious number of others, bred in the mud, become 
the prey of the fmallcr kind of fifties, and they again 
of the greater. That this feheme of nature, in Sup- 
porting life by death, found every-where clfe, dives 
into the depths of the ocean, may appear probable 
from the wife frugality of nature, which hath an 
ufeful end in every thing, and befides rejoices in 
filling the world with life and motion ; and alfo 
from the wonderful kinds of fifties, which are now- 
and-then wafhed up by violent (forms from the deep 
waters, or happen to purfue their prey, from the 
low lands of the ocean, to the higher grounds at the 
fhores. 
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Franclfcus Redi , in his curious treatife concern- 
ing the generation of infeds, hath not only refuted 
the notion of equivocal generation, but alfo hath 
fhewn us, that each animal and vegetable hath its 
own peculiar infeds to maintain $ and Eleazar 
Albin, in his colledion of various caterpillars, and 
the butterflies, into which they are transformed, 
hath given us a beautiful demonftration, from above 
an hundred inftances, that each fpecies hath its own 
proper plant, to which it is by nature peculiarly ad- 
apted, and on which only it can feed, or live for 
any confiderable time. 
Now the Cornel, my Lord, is the plant, on which 
alone the worms, we have been (peaking of, can be 
propagated and fed. The fpecific qualities, with 
which the juices of this tree are impregnated, fit it 
for 
