348 THE SWEDISH PAN: 
abound in certain places. Thus the lichen or 
liverwort , FI. 980. is found in greateft plenty 
on the cold alps, and therefore the rhen deer y 
which all winter live moilly upon this plant, 
are obliged to live there. The feftuca, FI. 94. 
which florifhes and fpreads molt on dry paftures, 
draws the fheep thither, which above all things 
delight in that kind of grafs. The feeds of 
the dwarf birch*, FI. 777. which afford the beft 
fort of food to the rough-legg' dpartridge, and the 
Norway rat , Fn. 26. tempt them to dwell in 
thefe northern parts of the world. Camels hay , 
Mat. Med. 312. which above all plants, thrives 
on loofe fand, draws the camel to choofe thofe 
barren places, as they there find food moil 
agreeable to them ; not to mention many other 
fimilar inftances. Trees, whofe heads fhoot up 
fo high, that quadrupeds cannot eafily reach 
them, afford nourilhment for that reafon to 
more numerous tribes of infers , as the fallow , 
the oak , th tpear, &c. The Creator, who moil 
wifely eftablifhed this law, has as it were im- 
printed it on the organs of animals, that they 
might not offend againil it thro’ ignorance 5, 
and as every tranfgreffion has its punifhment 
allotted, fo alfo no offence againft the law of 
nature 
