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eulation we behold with admiration the wifdom 
of the Creator, which has made fome vegetables 
abfolutely difagreable to fome animals that live 
upon plants, while thefe plants are agreeable to 
others. And there are plants, which are poi- 
fonous to fome animals, which are very whole- 
fome to others, and on the contrary. This did 
not happen by chance, but was contrived for 
wife purpofes. For if the Author of nature 
had made all plants equally grateful to all kinds 
of quadrupeds, it muft neceflfarily have hap- 
pened, that one fpecies of them being remark- 
ably increafed, another fpecies muft have pe- 
rifhed with hunger, before it could have got 
into better pafture •, the vegetables being con- 
fumed over a large tradt of ground. But as it 
is ordained every fpecies muft by force leave 
certain plants to certain animals, fo that they 
always find fome thing to live upon, till they 
meet with better pafture *, in the like manner we 
find it contrived in relation to the plants them- 
felves, which do not all grow in the fame coun- 
trey, and climate ; but every plant has its place 
appointed by the Creator, in w'hich it grows 
more abundantly, than any where elfe. From 
hence we may obferve, that thofe animals, 
which chiefly live upon particular plants, chiefly 
abound 
