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OF NATURE, 
throughout the globe, and if Providence does 
not always calculate exa£lly according to our 
way of reckoning, we ought to confider this 
affair in the fame light, as when different feamen 
wait for a fair wind, every one, with refpedt to 
the part he is bound to, who we plainly fee 
cannot all be fatisfied, 
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The whole earth would be overwhelmed with 
carcafes, and Itinking bodies, if fome animals 
did not delight to feed upon them. Therefore 
when an animal dyes, hears , wolves , foxes , ra- 
vens , &c. do not lofe a moment till they have 
taken all away. But if a horfe e. g. dyes near 
the public road, you will find him, after a few 
days, fwoln, burft, and at laft filled with innu- 
merable grubs of carnivorous flies y by which he 
is entirely confumed, and removed out of the 
way, that he may not become a nufance to 
paffengers by his poifonous flench. 
When the carcafes of fifhes are driven upon 
the fhore, the voracious kinds, fuch as the thorn - 
back y the hound fijh y the conger eel y &c. gather 
about and eat them. But becaule the flux, and 
reflux 
