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t fhall purfue this reflection no farther ; but it 

 evidently demonftrates the newnefs of the World. 

 Were it eternal, and exempted from the care of a 

 Providence, it's vegetables would long fince have 

 undergone all the poffible combinations of the 

 chance which re-fows them. We mould find their 

 différent fpecies in every fituation where it was 

 poffible for them to grow. From this obfetvation 

 I deduce another confequence, namely this, That 

 the Author of Nature evidently intended to link 

 Mankind together, by a reciprocal communication 

 of benefits, the chain of which is, as yet, very far 

 from being completed. Where is, for example, 

 the benefactor of Humanity, who fhall tranfport 

 to the Oftiacs and the Samoïèdes of Waigats 

 Strait, Winter's tree from the Straits of Magellan, 

 the bark of which unites the favour of cloves, of 

 pepper, and of cinnamon ? And who is the man 

 that fhall convey to Magellan's Strait the peafe- 

 tree of Siberia, to feed the ftarving Patagonian. 



What a rich collection might Rufïïa make, not 

 only of the trees which thrive in the northern and 

 the fouthern regions of America, but of thofe 

 which, in all parts of the World, crown the lofcv, 

 ice-covered mountains, whofe elevated ridges have 

 a temperature approaching to that of her plains ? 

 Wherefore beholds fhe not her forefts enriched 

 with the pinss of Virginia, and with the cedars of 



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