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tra£t, no fea, no river, no countrey, but what 
contains, and nouriihes various kinds of ani- 
mals* Hence alfo an animal of one kind can- 
not rob thofe of another kind of its aliment ; 
which, if it happened, would endanger their 
lives or health ; and thus the world at all 
times affords nourifhment to fo many, and fo 
large inhabitants, at the fame time that no- 
thing, which it produces, is ufelefs or fuper- 
fluous. 
I think it will not be amifs to produce fome 
inftances, by which it will appear, how provi- 
dentially the Creator has furniihed every ani- 
mal with fuch cloathing, as is proper for the 
countrey where they live, and alfo how excel- 
lently the ftru&ure of their bodies is adapted 
to their particular way of life ; fo that they 
feem to be deftined folely to the places, where 
they are found. 
Monkies , elephants , and rhinocerofes feed 
upon vegetables, that grow in hot countries, 
and therefore therein they have their allotted 
places. When the fun darts forth its moft 
fervid rays, thefe animals are of fuch a nature, 
and difpofition, that it does them no manner 
of hurt ; nay with the reft of the inhabitants 
of thofe parts they go naked, whereas were 
i they 
