great light and ftrong; Joints exactly opening, shutting, and moving, as the Occafions of Flight require; and the Pectoral Muscles, of the eft Strength of any in the whole Body. Placed in the niceft Point of the Body of every Species, according to the Occafions of Flight, Swimming, or Diving. Tail, which is well made, and placed to keep the Body fteady, and affift in its Afcents and Defcents 337 Legs and Feet, which are made light for Flight, and incomparably accoutered for their proper Occafions of Performed by the nicest Laws of Mechanicks. Other Parts of the Body, viz. the -Head remarkable for the commodious Forms of the Bill. Site of the Eye and Ear. Pofition of the Brain. Structure of the Larynx. Inner Ear. Provifion by Nerves in the Bill for tasting and diftinguishing Food 344. Stomachs, one to S Macerate and prepare 345. Lungs incomparably made for Making the Body buoyant. In due Proportion to the Legs. To counterpoife the Body in Flight. State. Of which I take Notice of three Things, vix. their -Migration remarkable for The Knowledge Birds have of Their Accommodation for long Flights by long of Incubation, which is confiderable for A&t itfelf; that these Creatures fhould betake them- The Neglect of it in any, as the Ostrich, and the wonderful Provifion for the Young in that Cafe 354. Nidification. Of which before. Infects. Which although a defpised Tribe, doth in some Respects more fet forth the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Creator, than the larger Animals. The Things in this Tribe remarked upon are their Shaped, not fo much for long Flights, as for their Built not with Bones, but with what ferves both for Eyes, reticulated to fee all Ways at once 360; Legs and Feet made for Creeping 363. Swimming and Walking. Hanging on smooth Surfaces. Leaping. Digging. Spinning and Weaving Webs and Cafes. Nicely diftended with Bones 365. Some incomparably adorned with Feathers and elegant Colours. Some jointed and folded up in their Elytra, and diftended again at Pleasure. In Number either Two, with Poifes. Four, without Poifes. -Surprizing Minuteness of some of thofe Animals themfelves, especially of their Parts, which are as numerous and various as in other Animal Bodies 367. State: which fets forth a particular Concurrence of the Divine Providence, in the wife and careful Provifion that is made for their Secu Security againft Winter, by their Subfifting in a different, viz. their Nympha or Au- Living in Torpitude, without any Waste of Body or Laying up Provision before-hand. Prefervation of their Species by their Chufing proper Places, to lay up their Eggs and Sperm, fo that the Eggs may have due Incubation 373 Young fufficient Food. Care and Curiofity in repofiting their Eggs in neat Order, and with the proper Part uppermost 382. Incomparable Art of Nidification, by being endowed with Parts proper for, and agreeable to the feveral Ways Of Nidification, and the Materials they use in it. Architectonick Sagacity to build and weave their Cells, or to make even Nature herfelf their handmaid 384. Reptiles. Which agreeing with other Animals in fomething or other before treated of, I confider only their Motion,which is very remarkable, whether we confider the Manner of it, as Vermicular 394. Sinuous. Snail-like. Caterpillar-like. Parts miniftring to it. Poifon, which ferves to Scourge Man's Wickedness 398. Their eafy Capture and Maftery of their Prey. -Watery Inhabitants confiderable for their -Great Variety 401. Prodigious Multitudes. Vaft Bulk of fome, and furprizingMinutenefs of others 402 Respiration. Adjustment of their Organs of Vifion to their Element. Infenfitive Inhabitants. Among which having mentioned Foffils and others, I infift only upon Vegetables, and that in a curfory Manner upon their Great Variety for the feveral Ufes of the World 404. Leaves 407. Flowers, and their admirable Gaiety. Seed, remarkable for its Genera Generation. Make. Containing in it a compleat Plant 408. Prefervation and Safety in the Gems, Fruit, Earth, etc. Growing and Standing: Some by Their own Strength 417. The Help of others, by clasping about, or hanging upon them. Remarkable Ufe, efpecially of fome which feem to be provided for the Good of All Places 420. Some particular Places, to Heal fome Local Distempers. Practical Inferences upon the Whole are these Six. viz. That GOD's Works 1. Are Great and Excellent 425. 2. Ought to be enquired into, with a Commendation of fuch as do fo 427. 3. Are manifeft to all, and therefore Atheism unreasonable 428. 4. Ought to excite Fear and Obedience 431. 5. Ought to excite Thankfulness 432. 6. Should move us to pay God his due Homages and Worfhip, particularly that of the Lord's Day: which is an Appoint ment The moft Antient 438. Wifely contrived for Dispatch of Bufinefs, and to prevent Whofe proper Bufinefs is, to cease from Worldly, and to A SURVEY O F THE TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE. INTRODUCTION. N Pfal. cxi. 2. the Pfalmift afferts, That the (a) Works of the Lord are great; fought out of all them that have Pleafure therein. This is true of all God's Works, particularly of his Works of Creation Which, when fought out, or, as the Hebrew Word (b) fignifieth, when beedfully and deeply pried into, folicitously obferved (a) It is not unlikely that the Pfalmift might mean, at least have an Eye to, the Works of the Creation in this Text, the Word wy being the fame that in Pfal. xix. 1. is tranflated God's Handy-work, which is manifeftly applied to the Works of Creation, and properly fignifieth Factum, Opus, Opificium, from y Fecit, Paravit, Aptavit. And, faith Kircher, Significat talem affectionem, quâ aliquid exiftit vel realiter, vel ornate, vel ut non fit in priftino ftatu quo fuit. Concord. p. 2. col. 931. (b) Quafivit, perquifivit, fcifcitatus eft. Buxtor. in verb. Et fimul importat curam, & folicitudinem. Conrad. Kirch. ib. p. 1. col. 1174. B and |