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a rivulet ifluing from the mow; and, perhaps* 

 efcape the feverity of Winter's cold, at the bottom 

 of a valley with a fouthern afpect, under the palm- 

 tree, and amidft a field of fugar-canes. We might 

 there naturalize the animals which are the compa- 

 triots of thofe vegetables. He might hear the 

 braying of the rein-deer of Lapland, from the fame 

 valley in which he would fee the peacocks of Java 

 building their nefts. This landfcape would collect 

 around him a part of the tributes of the Creation, 

 and exhibit to him an image of the terreftrial pa- 

 radife, which was fituated y as I fuppofe, in a fimi- 

 lar pofition. In ferious truth, I cannot help ex- 

 prefïïng a wifh, that our Kings would extend their 

 fublime enjoyments, as far as the ftudy of Nature 

 has purfued it's refearches under their fk>uri(Tikig 

 Empire *. 



It now remains, that I examine the harmonies 

 which plants form with each other. Thefe har- 



* Ne/cia mens bominum fati fortifjue /attira / Ah, blind to fu^ 

 turity ! Little did good Saint-Pierre think, that the ill-fated 

 Prince, for whom he took fo much delight to plant and deco- 

 rate this earthly Paradife, was, in the courfeofa few fleeting 

 years, to be dethroned, imprifoned, condemned, and publicly 

 executed, in the Metropolis of his own Kingdom ; and the very 

 name of King profcribed by a Nation once enthufiaftically at- 

 tached to Royalty. How wonderful are the Works of Nature ? 

 How myfterious the Ways of Providence ! H. H. 



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