Tracts relating to natural history / By James Edward Smith.

  • James Edward Smith
Date:
1798
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Credit: Tracts relating to natural history / By James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fo that while many plants are deftined to feed a very few {pecies of thefe animals, the nettle affords fubfiftence to feveral different kindsis and trees, being out of the reach of quadrupeds, jai doent: fup- port innumerable legions. The dumb ffhes. which glitter at the bottom of the waters, and satel furpafs birds in number, find an ample repatt pre- pared for them in the numberlefs worms which have their dwelling there; and at the fummons of Venus they in their turns annually appioagh the fhore in duly di- vided troops, , ’ The winged inhabitants of the air, which excel all other animals in the beauty of their forms, find in the loftieft trees a rich. ‘provifion of infeéts for their fuftenance: here they modulate their harmonious throats to the tender melody of love, pre- paratory to their producing new tribes for the ornament of future feafons.., .Moft birds migrate every year from the north~ em oe to countries, nearer, the fun ; and, having. reached. their appointed . dif- € wvintanes,
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