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NATURAL HISTORY. He 
Foop.....The place, as well as the nature of their 
food, is adapted to the fize and fpecies of the animal. 
Thofe feeding in vallies are generally larger than 
thofe that feek their food on mountains. In warm cli- 
mates, their plenteous and nutritive food renders them 
remarkable for bulk. Milk is their firft aliment. 
PropucE..... Beafts that are large, ufelefs, and for- 
thidable, produce but few ata time, while thofe that 
are {mail, ferviceable and inoffenfive, are more pro- 
lific. This feéms to be adapted with the moft admir- 
able proportion ; for, were the fimaller and weaker to 
have lefs offspring, their race might be deftroyed, by 
being fo frequently made the prey of ftronger ani- 
mals. ’ "aii 
CouRAcGE.....fn defence of their young, no dang- 
ef or terror can drive animals from their protection. 
Such as have force, and fubfift by rapine, are moft 
formidable in their ferocious courage. ‘ 
GENERATION....Each f{pecies of quadrupeds bring 
forth their young at the time when nature moft plen- 
. . teoufly affords them their refpective nutriment. Thofe 
animals which hoard up provifions for the. winter, 
producé their young in January, by whiclt time they 
are enabled to collect fufficient fubfiftence for their 
offspring.. Quadrupeds which are called oviparows, 
from being hatched from eg¢s, fuch as the crocodile, 
turtle, &c, are the moft prolitic, being no fooner freed 
from the fhell: than they attain their ucmott {tate of 
animal perfection. 
Every fpecies of animal ‘has its peculjar cry, by 
which they diftinguifh each other, and communicate 
the’ general expreilions of their paffions, as fear, joy, 
defire, &c. Thus has the all wife, bountiful and di- 
vine creator, in his infinite wifdom, formed a race of 
animals for the ufe of mankind, and granted us do- 
Minion over them, which fhould never be exercifed 
but with the ‘greateft humanity. ; 
