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fummits of the rocks, and feemed defirous of 

 mounting up to the linneSy garnifhed with blue, or 

 fcarlet flowers, which hung down here and there, 

 along the precipices of the mountain. 



He had difpofed thefe vegetables in fuch a man- 

 ner, that you could enjoy the fight of them, by a 

 llngle glance of the eye. He had planted in the 

 middle of the bafon, the herbage, which grows to 

 no great height, after that the flirubbery, then the 

 trees of fmall ftature, and laft of all the great trees, 

 which garnifhed it's circumference ; fo that this 

 vail enclofure appeared, from it's centre, like an 

 amphitheatre of verdure, of fruits, and flowers, 

 containing pot-herbs, ftripes of meadow-ground, 

 and fields of rice and corn. But in fubjefling thus 

 the vegetable kingdom to his plan, he had not de- 

 viated from the plans of Nature. Direfted by the 

 indications which flie vouchfafes to give, he had 

 placed in elevated fituations, the plants whofe feeds 

 are volatile, and by the fide of the waters thofe 

 whofe grains are adapted to floating. Thus, each 

 vegetable grew in it's proper fite, and each fite re- 

 ceived from it's vegetable it's natural drefs. The 

 flreams, which defcended from the fummit of thefe 

 rocks, formed below in the valley, here, fountains, 

 there, broad and capacious mirrors, which refleded, 

 in the m.idft of the verdure, the trees in bloom, 

 the rocks, and the azure of the Heavens. 



Notwithilanding 



