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Excerpt from A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature: To Which Are Added, the Life of the Author, His Deserted Village, Traveller, Miscellanies, &C
Both, however, are necessary to those who would understand this pleasing science in its utmost extent. The first care of every inquirer, no doubt, should be, to see, to visit, and ex amine, e'very object, before he pretends to inspect its habitudes or its history. From seeing and observing the thing itself, he is most naturally led to speculate upon its uses, its. Delights.
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