O R, NATURE DISPLAY'D. BEING DISCOURSES On fuch PARTICULARS of NATURAL HISTORY As were thought most proper To EXCITE the CURIOSITY, AND FORM the Minds of YOUTH. Illuftrated with COPPER-PLATES, VOL. VII. Tranflated from the Original French. The FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for R. FRANCKLIN, C. HITCH, J. RIVINGTON, M,DCC,LXIII. 7-2-43. DIAL. XVIII. Sequel of Inftructive Arts and Profeffions The Agreement between the Rough and the The Writing and Language of the 9th Century The Writing and Language of the 8th, 7th, 6th, and DIAL. XXI. The third Sequel of Inftructive Arts Bell-founding DIAL. XXII. The Figures caft in Brafs 256 The Sequel of DIALOGUE XXV. The Love of Gavot C Explanation of the Frontispiece. HARLES M. after the unfuccesful Expedition Spectacle de la Nature. The HABITATIONS of MAN. DIALOGUE XV. HILE one Part of the human Species is employed in preparing our Food and Attire, we are going to view another Part of Society no lefs numerous than the former, taking upon them the Care of preparing Habitations for the Reft of Mankind. We indeed borrow the Affiftance of the Architect and Mafon, when we have a Houfe to rebuild, or an Apartment that wants to be repaired: But we at the fame Time act a wife Part, in prefiding over the whole, and we acquire a Right to it, by early taking a proper Notice of their Works. This we have daily Opportunities of doing; and often converfing with, and taking Advice of an honeft Tradefman, who though he builds his House without any Oftenftation and Magnificence, yet does it in Tafte and fhews as much Judgment in the Difpofal of every Part as in the Management of his Expences, is as fure a Means of improving our Minds, as it is of our fucceeding in what we undertake. Human Abodes have varied from Time VOL. VII. B to |