Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Springfield: October 30, 1805, on Occasion of the Completion and Opening of the Great Bridge Over Connecticut River, Between the Towns of Springfield and West-Springfield Now to what end was all this order and beauty of na ture - this fertility and furniture of the earth, if there were none to contemplate and enjoy them Without fuch an inhabitant as man to behold the works, and te ceive the bounties of God, this earth would be made in yam; it might as well have been a fandy defert, or an impenetrable rock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.