OF MATURE. Si 
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All fucculent plants make ground fine, of a 
good quality, and in great plenty, as fedum$ 
zrajfula , dtoe b dlgd But dry plants make it 
more barren, as ling or heathy pines , mofs *, and 
therefore nature has placed the fucculent plants 
on rocks, and the dryeft hills, 
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The animal kingdom * 
Propagation. 
The generation of animals holds the firfi 
place among all things, that raife Our admira- 
tion, when we conflder the works df the 
Creator $ and that appointment particularly, by 
which he has regulated the conception of the 
foetus ,’ and its exclufion, that it fhould be 
adapted to the difpofitian, and way of living 
of each animal, is molt worthy of our atten- 
tion. 
We find no fpecies of animals exempt from 
the flings of loVd, which is put into them to 
the end, that the Creator’s mandate may be 
executed, increafe and multiply ; and that thuj 
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