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confider the rattle which terminates this Ter- 
pen t’s tail. For by the means of that we have 
an opportunity of guarding againft this dread- 
full enemy ; the found warning us to fly, 
which if we were not to do, and we fhould be 
wounded by him, the whole body would be 
turned into a putrid corruption in fix hours, 
nay fometimes in half an hour. 
The limits of this differ tation will not permit 
me to produce more examples of this kind. 
But whoever will be at the pains to take ever 
fo flight a view of the wonderfull works of the 
Creator, will readily fee, how wifely the plan, 
order and fitnefs of things to divine ends are 
difpofed, 
§• 16. 
We cannot without the utmoft admiration 
behold how providently the Creator has adted 
as to the prefervation of thofe animals, which 
at a certain time of the year, are by the rigor 
of the feafon excluded from the neceffaries of 
life. Thus the bear in the autumn creeps into 
the mofs , which he has gathered, and there 
lies all winter , fubfifling upon no other nou- 
nfhment but his fat, colledted during the 
flimmer in the cellulous membrane, and which 
without 
