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which it has been found impoflible to propagate 

 in the interior of Alia and of America, though 

 the Latitude be, in other refpects, favourable. 

 Nay, I have remarked, that it is not fruitful in 

 iflands, and on fhores where it is excluded from 

 the fea-breezes. To this caufe I afcribe the fte- 

 rility of thofe which have been planted in the Ifle 

 of France, on it's weftern more ; for it is meltered 

 from the Eaft-winds by a chain of mountains. As 

 to the cocoa-tree, it will not thrive, between the 

 Tropics, unlefs it has, if I may venture to fay fo, 

 it's root in the fea-water. It is, I firmly believe, 

 for want of thofe geographical confiderations, and 

 fome others of a fimilar nature, that many plans 

 of improvement in cultivation have failed in 

 France, and in her Colonies. 



However that may be, it might be poffible to 

 find, within the kingdom, an icy mountain, with, 

 perhaps, a reverberating valley below. It would 

 be a mofl agreeable employment to go in fearch 

 of fuch a fituation, and the greateft benefits might 

 be derived from it. We might convert it into a 

 Royal Garden, which mould prefent to our Sove- 

 reign a fpectacle of the vegetation of a multitude 

 of climates, upon one line, of lefs than fifteen 

 hundred fathoms of elevation. There he might 

 bid defiance to the burning heat of the dog-ftar, 

 under the (hade of cedars, on the moffy bank of 



0,2 a rivulet 



