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HOSE animals which by their ize chiefly attract our attention, are but the mallet part of animated nature; the whole earth warms with living beings, every plant, every grain and leaf, upports the life of thouands. Vegetables eem, at firt ight, to be the parts of organized nature, which are produced in the greatet abundance; but upon minuter inpection we hall find each upporting numberles minute creatures, who fill up the various gradations of youth, vigour, and old age, in the pace of a few days exitence.

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