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1 desire still to extend : I say to myself sometimes, when 

 shall I quit the environs of Geneva ? When shall I behold 

 the borders of the sea ? the Mediterranean, the Ocean ? 

 that wandering Conferva of which Linnjcus speaks, which 

 floats upon the sea as our Coiijugatce float upon the waters ? 

 I do not believe that elsewhere a happier kind of life is to 

 be found, nor that Society furnishes to men more real pleasures 

 than Natui'e affords to those who love her." 



