on Voyages to Cbina. jo* 



think they might be prepared in Szveden too : 

 fkins cannot b.e wanting in a country which is 

 not only capable of, but obliged to breed ilieep, 

 and without which it cannot fubfift. 



For fear of miffing the true entrance into 

 the Chawel, the fhips chufe rather to go north 

 abopt Ireland i for a fecure road, though round 

 about, is always preferable to a dangerous 

 one though more direft. 



Our Eajl India fhips fixould not wifli to fee 

 the Faroe IJlands, were it not to efcape their 

 foggy recks. Yet there is no country but has 

 its peculiar advantages. It is cold, but it has 

 plenty of furs for cloathing. The fheep, 

 whofe delight rfre hills and dry pafhires, grow 

 very fat here. The want of bread is fupplied 

 by dried fifh ; a food which, with fome others, 

 might be introduced to great advantage in fuch 

 places of our country where fiiheries obtain, 

 efpecially during thefe times., when every thim* 

 bears fo high a price. The wife inflitutions 

 of the Creator are glorious in directing nature 

 to fupply us with one thing infiead of another 

 which we want: if fome places have barren 

 mountains and dry hills, they are generally 

 counter-balanced by fine rivers or feas fwarm- 

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