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30 ditant Countries, as there was of its being followed in the remote Quarters of this ame Earth.

’Tis much of the ame in Animals as ’tis in Plants, as to their manner of Nourihment, and Propogation of their Kind. For ince all the living Creatures of this Earth, whether Beats, Birds, Fihes, Worms, or Insects, univerally and inviolably follow the ame contant and fix’d Intitution of Nature; all feed on Herbs, or Fruits, or the Fleh of other Animals that fed on them: ince all Generation is peformed by the impregnating of the Eggs, and the Copulation of Male and Female: Why may not the ame Rule be oberved in the Planetary Worlds? For ’tis certain that the Herbs and Animals that are there would be lot, their whole Species detroyed without ome daily new Productions: except there be no uch thing there as Misfortune or Accident: except the Plants are not like other humid Bodies, but can bear Heat, Frot, and Age, without being dry’d up, kill’d, or decay’d: except the Animals have Bodies as hard and