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forced to confefs, that he beholds a mod du- 
pendous, and wonderful phenomenon. Many 
thoufands of people are fupported by rye- 
bread, not one of them perhaps ever law, in 
how furprifing a manner its hulks are armed ; 
which any one, who is defirous, may fee by 
the help of a glafs. 
The day would fooner fail me than matter, 
were i to take notice of every thing, which this 
fubject affords. Let this then be looked upon 
as the end of created beings ; that fome may 
be ufefull to man as phyfic, others as aliment ; 
•fome in oeconomy immediately, others medi- 
ately •, fome vegetables prepare the ground, 
fome protect thofe which are more tender, 
others cover the earth with a green, and mod 
beautifull tapedry, and that perennial ; fome 
form thofe groves to which we fly for cool- 
nefs, others adorn our globe with their mod 
elegant flowers, and regale our nodrils with 
their mod delicious odors. Ladly, all things 
demondrate abundantly the omnifcience of the 
wife Creator, who created nothing in vain, but 
contrived every thing with fo much artifice, 
that human art, however great it may be, 
cannot imitate the lead of his productions. 
If we neglect therefore to confider thefe ob- 
O 3 jecls. 
