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WATU^IAL HISTORY'. 
for ^ing defencelels^ as well as incapable 
of flight, it could never efcape deftruftion, 
was it not that their cry is fo hideous, and la- 
mentable in its tone, as to caufe every bcall: 
to avoid the found. How ought we to 
admire the wildom and providence of the 
Almighty,, who, by the breath only of this 
dcfencelefs animal, has railed a bulwark for 
its proteftion ! 
Welhoulddo injuftice to the great Crea- 
tor of the Univerfe,^ who never created any 
thing in vain, could we fuppofe any animal 
was ever fo formed, as to be incapable of 
comfort; although the floth carries every 
appearance of mifery in its nature, there can- 
not be a doubt but it has latisfaftions peculi- 
arly -fuited to its ftation. 
'The A R M A D I L L O. 
feemsto have referved all the" 
wonders of her .power for rhofe remote 
countries, where man is molt lavage, and 
quadrupeds the moll various. She Teems to 
become more wonderful, in proportion, the 
further llie retires from human inl^eftion. 
But this, in reality, only arifes from the at- 
tempts of man to rid tile country of fuch 
ftrange prodiuftituis, in proportion as he be- 
comes taore civiliacd. 
The- 
