NATURAL HISTORY; OR UNCLE PHILIP'S CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CHILDREN ABOUT TOOLS AND TRADES AMONG THE INFERIOR ANIMALS. [No VI. of the Boy's and Girl's Library.] The wonders of God's providence, as they are manifested in the figures, habits, and performances of the various creatures which fill the earth, the air, and the waters,-the endless varieties of form, the accuracy and ingenuity of their contrivances, whether for security or sustenance, and the admirable adaptation of their instruments to the works their instinct prompts them to construct, supply an exhaustless theme for observation and astonishment, and call forth in the mind the most exalted ideas of the Supreme wisdom and beneficence. 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