OF NATURE. 93 
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As foon as animals come to maturity* and 
want no longer the care of their parents, they 
attend with the utmoft labor, and induftry, ac- 
cording to the law and ceconomy appointed 
for every fpecies, to the prefervation of their 
lives. But that fo great a number of them, 
which occur every where, may be fupported, 
and a certain and fixed order may be kept up 
amongfl them, behold the wonderfull difpofl- 
tion of the Creator, in affigning to each fpe- 
cies certain kinds of food, and in putting li- 
mits to their appetites. So that fome live on 
particular fpecies of plants, which particular 
regions*, and foils only produce. Some on par- 
ticular animalcula, others on carcafes, and fome 
even on mud and dung. For this reafon Pro- 
vidence has ordained, that fome fliould fwim 
in certain regions of the watery element, others 
fliould fly *, fome fhould inhabit the torrid, the 
frigid, or the temperate zones, and others 
fliould frequent defarts, mountains, woods, 
pools or meadows, according as the food pro- 
per to their nature is found in fuflicient quan- 
tity. By this means there is no terreftrial 
trad, 
