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Some were wild, fleet or cunning, and difficult to be taken, and Inftruments and Labour were neceffary to take them. Some other Creatures which naturally deftroyed thofe Sorts, were made tame, or capable of being made tame, and affiftant to Man in deftroying the useless wild ravenous ones, in taking the useful wild ones, in protecting the tame Some were tamed and made ufeful to Man, to affift him in cultivating the Ground, Carriage, &c. When Men fet out at first, if they eat Flefh then, or however, after the Flood, they had no Flesh but what they could catch; and when they had made fome tame, the Flesh of a few tame Beafts, and the Milk, Butter, and Cheefe, they produc'd, was with great difficulty fecur'd from the ravenous Beafts. And if there had been no other Sorts of Beafts created, but fuch as are tame or eafy to be taken, and for the immediate Ufe of Man, and no others, either to eat up their Food, or to destroy Part of them, when there were few People to take and use them, and they had all multiply'd in Proportion as they do, there would foon have been fuch Swarms of them, that there would have needed no care in preserving the tame Sorts, and little

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little Labour in procuring that Sort of Food for Man; and these Sorts which are useful and breed faft, then, and for which there is a Neceffity, that they breed as faft now, would at firft, in a fhort Time, if there had been no other Sorts to devour Part of them, have overstock'd the Earth, and starv'd one another. But as those wild Sorts which devour, hurt not one another, but only feed upon the ufeful Sorts, that was prevented. And though this feem Destruction and Wafte, fo long as Man in each Age has that due Proportion defign'd, there is no more lofs by one Beaft, Bird, Fish, &c. eating another useful one, than by Water being fpilt out of a Veffel upon the Ground fince the vegetable or animal Parts, when eaten and converted, paffed to the Parts of another Animal; Part to Excrements, are not loft, but put into a new Motion, apply'd to new Ufes as Water fpilt is. If there had not been monftrous, ravenous, deftructive Bcafts, fuch as Lyons, &c. and terrible Creatures, fuch as large Serpents, and where Men fet out at first, not only to deftroy the Superfluity of ufeful Creatures, &c. but to fright People from feparating, and deftroy the Stragglers, as there was fufficient Means in those

Climates,

Climates to live alone, while few, Men were fo proud and averfe to Subjection, filial or political, and fo fond of Liberty and Independency, that each couple would have ran from the reft, liv'd together upon the Fruits, Beafts, &c. which thofe Countries afforded in Plenty, left their Parents when old, to flarve and turn favage, as many are at this Day, and created infinitely more Tongues, Religions, &c. than can be imagined, and, in the main, loft all Knowledge of God, or their focial Duties, all Poflibility of Improvement in Science, &c. and when the Parents had died, and left young Children, they would have been ftarv'd, and those ravenous Creatures abound moft in the hot Countries; I think feveral Sorts, peculiar to each Country, where Men are moft liable to be tempted to run out, and turn favage; whether there were more placed there of each Sort, or they are fuffered to increase there more by Man's Savagenefs, deferves Confideration. But were there not fuch Creatures in thofe Countries, where Men are almost favage, to keep them together in Tribes, or Bands, they would separate more, and be more favage. Where Societies of Men have establish'd

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and cultivated the whole Country, favage Beafts are destroy'd, or brought within Compafs. Those which destroy other Sorts, are destroy'd by the Strength or Policy of Men, by Dogs, Nets, Guns, Traps, &c. and the neceffary Instincts, manner of breeding, growing, &c. in the ufeful Sorts remain; Where Societies are fettled upon Parts of Continents, where there are great Deferts adjoining, and those cruel ravenous or deftructive Beafts, which fhun Societies of Men, are in those Deferts, Instincts to breed, Temptation of feeding upon Grafs, Greens, &c. drive thofe Beats which are unarm'd, fearful, and useful, out of those Deserts, to among Men, and give Men an opportunity of taking them; and as thofe Deserts are improv'd and inhabited, thofe ravenous Beafts are destroy'd, or remove; so that one may truly fay, the most ravenous Beafts, are friends to Society, and the ufeful Sorts cannot be protected, enjoy'd, or taken out of Societies, and that all Beafts are useful to, or made useful by, Societies, and both find Men Employment to provide for, inclofe, preferve, and manage, the useful Beafts, deftroy the deftroyers, take the wild and ufeful ones.

Some

Some Sorts of Fowls, or Birds, are eafily made tame, and depend upon Man for Food and Prefervation; fome which are useful, are not very difficult to be taken; fome devour and deftroy the ufeful ones; fome which are wild and deftroy, and fome which are wild, and do not destroy, are made fo tame, as to affift in taking the ufeful wild ones; fome are wild and fwift, and require Inftruments and Labour to deftroy the ufelefs, and take the useful; fome of them feed upon ufeful Grain, and require the Labour of Man to destroy them; fome of them feed upon, and destroy the Seeds of Weeds, and hinder them from propagating too faft; fome feed upon Carrion; fome upon Infects at Land; fome upon Infects and fmall Fish in the Waters, and fome amphibioufly, both at Land and in the Water. When Men fet out at firft, 'tis likely very few Fowls came to their Share, they had neither skill nor means to take them; and when at firft, they took and kept fome of the Sorts which may be tamed, they were a Prey both to the voracious Birds, and to feveral of the voracious Beafts, and very difficult to be protected and preferved; and as I faid of Beafts, if none but useful and

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