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24. The patience of this animal is most extraordinary; and it is probable, that its fufferings are great, for when it is loaded, it fends forth moit lamentable cries,but never offers to refit the tyrant that opprefles it. At the fighteft fign, it bends its knees and lies upon its belly, fuffering itself to be loaded in this pofition; by this practice the burden is more cafily laid upon it, than if lifted up while ftand ing.

25.. At another fign it rifes with its load,. and the driver getting upon its back, between the two panniers, which like hampers, are pla ced upon each fide, he encourages the camel to proceed with his voice and with a fong. In this manner the creature proceeds contentedly forward, with a flow uncafy walk of about four miles an hour, and when it comes to its ftage, lies down to be unloaded, as before.

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26. Almost every part of this animal, is converted to fome useful purpose by the keepOf the urine, fal-ammoniac is made; and of the dung, litter for the horses, and fire for the purpose of dreffing their victuals..

27. Thus, this, animal alone feems to comprize within itself, a variety of qualities, any one of which ferves to render other quadrupeds quadrupeds? abfolutely neceffary for the welfare of man; like the elephant, it is manageable and tame; like the horfe, it gives the rider fecurity; it manageable. carries greater burdens than the ox, or the mule, and its milk is furnished in as great abundance as that of the cow; the flesh of young ones is fuppofed to be as delicate as veal; their hair is more beautiful, and more in request than wool; while,even of its very excrements, no part it useless.

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The Bible.

AIL! Holy Volume, whofe bleft page
inftructs our youth, fupports our age,
Beams thro the fhades of death's dark night,
And brings eternity to light!

Defpis'd, neglected, tho thou art,
Where vice ufurps the poifon'd heart;
Tho Deifts, dazzled with the ray
Of reafon's glimmering twilight day,
Wilder'd in fpeculative maze,
In error left which clouds thy blaze,
Nor truth, nor beauty, in thee fee—
Still thou art very dear to me.

2. Say thou who deem'ft this book a lie,
If thou can give one reafon why?
If one fair reason can be shown,
Which reafon would not blush to own?
Haft thou its various proofs fui vey'd,
And all its evidences weigh'd?
Go, dive the depths of ancient times,
The records fearch of various climes,
Whate'er may prove it falfe, or true,
External and internal, view
With candor's bright impartial eye,
And think it, if thou canft, a lie.

3. Thy reafon, learning, wit, may look
Difdainful on this humble book;
But has thine eye, with kecner view
Than Newton's look'd creation thro?
Or trac'd like Locke's, the laws that bind
The fubtle movements of the mind?
Is Milton's boundlefs learning thine,
Heir of antiquity's rich mine?
His fretch of thought, his fancy vast,
Creation's utmoft bounds that pafs'd?
Have brighter beams from glory's fun

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Been fhower'd on thee than Wafbington?
Yet these were Chriftians, and rever'd
Those pages, thou perhaps haft jeer'd!

4. Bleft book! may I with rev'rence due
Thy lucid leaves, forever view:
Each truth with aw'd attention fcan
Which points the way of life to man.

I.

Un Religion.

F your mind is in a proper frame, every

culcate the neceffity, and prompt you to the continual exercife of devotion. You will find

adequate? yourself encompaffed with innumerable fears, weakneffes, wants, forrows, difeafes, wifhes, hopes, under which, all human creatures will be unable to affift, or give you any adequate relief.

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2. But, wherever you caft youreyes, you will, at the fame time, be environed with the immenfity of a Being, who is poffeffed of all poffible perfections, and who holdeft the iffues of life and death, of happiness and misery, folcly in his own hands.

3. The power, majefty grandeur, and wif dom of this Being,are difcernible in every part of your frame, in every function of your body, & operation of your mind; nay,in the curious and exquifite formation of every animal and infect.

4. They are feen, on a ftill fublimer scale, in the fize, the distances, grandeur, and wonderful revolution of the heavenly bodies; in the beautiful variegated canopy of heaven, in all the delicious landscapes of nature,in the pleafing fucceffion of day and night, spring and autumn,fummer and winter.

5. In fhort, winds and ftorms, thunder and lightning, earthquakes and volcanos,the grand

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magnificent ocean, waves,and comets, fulfilling his word, appearing and receding at his Receding. command; flowers, bloffoms, fruits, foffils,

minerals, petrifactions,precipices,hills,caverns, petrifactions? valleys, all tell you, that their Former is immenfely magnificent.

6. This God is able to gratify your wishes, and fupport you under all your fufferings. He has wisdom enough to protect and guide you. The question then is, is he willing? On this head, hearken to all nature, forit speaks aloud.

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7. Look through the numberlefs orders and gradations of animals and infects, nay, of the meanest reptiles, and you will be aftonifhted with the attention, that has been lavished on provifion. them, in the contrivance of their frame, the allotment of their fituation, and the provifion made for their continual fupport.

8. They are happy. Shift your eye to all inanimare creation, and you will find it a scene. of harmony, of order, and beauty, and feemingly conftructed for our gratification. Lovely, picturefque views delight our imagination; fhrubs, and plants,and flowers, regale us with aromatic fmells.

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"In ev'ry part

We trace the bright impreffions of his band,
In earth, on air, the meadow's purple flores,
The moon's milt radiance, or the virgin form,
Blooming with rofy fimiles, we fee pourtray'd
That uncreated beauty, which delights

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10. Indeed,if you reafon, for a moment, diffufe? why could the Almighty create at all, but

to diffufe and variegate erjoyment? Inexhauf

tible fource of happiness, from all eternity, he variegate? needed not, and, in fact, could not receive.

addition to his own.

11. In himself fupremely bleffed. Fountain feraphs. of eternal majesty and fplendor, adored by

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feraphs, furrounded by myriads of angels and archangels, what dignity could he derive from the existence, or fervices of man, who is but a worm, or the production of ten thoufand worlds? It was infinite wifdom, therefore, that sketched out the plan of univerfal nature, and all-communicative goodness, that bade so many worlds exift,and bade them be happy.

12. The fupreme and gracious Former wifhed to communicate fome scattered rays of his glory, and of his bleffedness, to this extended world of matter and of life; and he has therefore, replenished every leaf, every drop of water, and every poffibility of space, with fhoals of inhabitants.

13. Scarce buds a leaf, or springs the loweft weed,
But little flocks upon its bojom feed:
No fruit our palate courts, or tefte, our smell,
But on its fragrant bofom, nations dwell.

14. Is it not, then, a certain conclufion, that he created you, as well as all inferior an imals, for happinets On this you may depend, as much as you can on the certainty of your existence, and that he is always, more willing to be your protector, than you are ready to request it.

15. If you draw nigh to the Almighty, he will draw nigh to you; if you feek his favour and friendfhip, all things fhall work together, for your good. Tribulation, anguish, nakednefs, or famine, or peril, or the fword, will all be used as fo many inftruments in his hand, of procuring your eternal happinefs and glory.

16. Remember the gift of his only fon,to be a facrifice for your fins, and it is more than a thoufand leffons of mercy beyond a parallel, and that far exceeds all human comprehenfion. On fo delightful a fubject,it is difficult to flop

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