24S STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Obclilks of ice ten leagues high, are not dlfpro- 

 portioned to the centre of cupolas of ice two thou- 

 fand leagues in diameter, which, in Winter, cover 

 our northern Hemifphere ; and which have like- 

 wife, in the fouthern Hemifphere, in the month 

 of February, that is, in the very Midfummer of 

 that Hemifphere, prominent borders, elevated like 

 promontories, and three thoufand leagues, at leaft, 

 in circumference, according to the relation of Cap- 

 tain Cooky who coafted round them in the years 

 1773 and 1774. 



The analogy which I eflablifh between the two 

 Hemifpheres of the Earth, the Poles, and the 

 Ocean which flows from them, and two mountains, 

 their peaks, and the rivers which there have their 

 fources, is in the order of the harmonies of the 

 Globe, which exhibits a great number of fimilar 

 harmonies on a faialler fcale in the Continents, 

 and in moft iflands, which are Continents in mi- 

 niature. 



It would appear, that Philofophy has, in all 

 ages, affeéled to find out very obfcure caufes, in 

 order to explain the moft common effeéls, in the 

 view of attrading the admiration of the vulgar, 

 who, in fact, fcarcely ever admire any thing but 

 what they do not comprehend. She has not failed 



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