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h Thus bountifull nature feeds the fowls of the 
air. 
The Creator has taken no lefs care of fome 
amphibious animals , as the fnake and frog 
kind, which, as they have neither wings to 
fly, nor feet to run fwiftly, and commodioufly, 
would fcarcely have any means of taking their 
prey, were it not that fome animals run, as it 
were of their own accord, into their mouths. 
When the rattle-fnake a native of America, 
with open jaws fixes his eyes on a bird, fly, or 
fquirrel, fitting on a tree, they fly down his 
throat, being rendered ftupid, and giving 
themfelves up *, as deftitute of all refuge. On 
the other hand we cannot but adore the Cre- 
ator’s great goodnefs towards man, when we 
11 To which we may add, that many fmall birds feed up- 
on the feeds of plantain , particularly linnets. It is gene- 
rally known that the goldfinch lives upon the feed of thiftles , 
from which he has its name in Greek, Latin and French. 
1 How dreadfull this ferpent is to other animals will ap- 
pear by an account we have in a treatife intitled, Radix Se- 
nega. Where the author Am$n. academ. vol. 2. fays, one 
of thefe terrible ferpents got clandeftinely into the houfe of 
governor Blake at Cacolina ; where it would have long 
laid concealed, had it not been that all the domeliic ani- 
mals, as dogs, hogs, turkies and fowls admonilhed the fa- 
mily by their unufual eries, equally fhewing their horrror 
and confternation, their hair, briltles and crelis Handing 
up an end. 
confide* 
