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are fown by thruihes, and other birds in tfie* 
fame manner; as the berries, being heavy, 
cannot be difperfed far by the winds. The 
crofs-bill that lives on the fir-cones, and the 
hawfinch that feeds on the pine-cones, at the 
fame time fow many of their feeds , efpecially 
when they carry the cone to a- floile, or trunk 
of a tree, that they more eafily ftrip it of its 
fcales. Swine likewife, by turning up the 
earth, and moles by throwing up hillocks, 
prepare the ground for feeds in the fame man- 
ner, as the ploughman does. 
I pafs over many other things, which might 
be mentioned concerning the fea, lakes, and 
rivers, by the help of which oftentimes feeds 
are conveyed unhurt to diftant countries ; nor 
need I mention in what a. variety of other 
ways nature provides for the diffemination of 
plants, as this fubje<5t has been treated on at 
large in our illuftrious prefident’s oration con- 
cerning the augmentation of the habitable 
earth. p 
i s. 
p As there is fomething very ingenious, and quite ne\V 
in the treatife here referred to, i will for the fake of thofe* 
who cannot read the original, give a fhort abilrad of it. 
His defign is to lhew that there vv„as only one pair of all 
living things-, created at the beginning. According to the 
account 
