222 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Mount Lebanon ? The defert fhores of the litis 

 might every year clothe themfelves with the fame 

 fpecies of oats wherewith fo many Nations, inha- 

 biting the banks of the rivers of Canada are prin- 

 cipally fupported. Not only might me collect in 

 her plains the trees and the plants of cold Lati* 

 tudes, but a great number of annual vegetables, 

 which grow during the courfe of a Summer, in 

 warm and temperate Latitudes. I know, by ex- 

 perience, that the Summer's heat is as powerful at 

 Peterfburg as under the Line. 



There are, befides, parts of the ground, in the 

 North, which have configurations perfectly adapted 

 to afford a fhelter againfl the northerly winds, and 

 to multiply the warmth of the Sun. If the South 

 has it's icy mountains, the North has it's reverba- 

 tory vallies. I have feen one of thofe fmall vallies, 

 near Peterfburg, at the bottom of which flows a 

 brook that never freezes, even in the midft of 

 Winter. The rocks of granite, wherewith Finland 

 is roughened all over, and which, according to the 

 report of Travellers, cover mod of the lands of 

 Sweden, of the fhores of the Frozen Ocean, and 

 all Spitzbergen, are fufficient for producing the 

 fame temperatures, in many places, and for dimi- 

 nifhing in them, to a considerable degree, the fe- 

 verity of the cold. 



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