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THE PETREL. 
beyond the consideration of the actual numbers, we 
reflect that each of these minute beings has not 
only life, but a body wonderfully made, with in- 
stincts and senses peculiar to each, — how infinitely 
beyond the power of our imagination to conceive, is 
that great and overruling Power, who hath measured 
the waters in the hollow of his hand , and meted out 
the heavens with a span. 
