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of the South-Sea*, running upon a rock when it 

 is beginning to grow dark, firing, from time to 

 time, guns, the fignal of diftrefs, the noife of 

 which the echos of thofe horrid deferts reverberate, 

 the terrified Patagonian running in amazement to 

 his cave ; and you will have a complete view of 

 that land of defolation, covered over with the 

 (hades of death. 



Of Movements, 



It remains that I fuggeft a iQ\^ refledlions on the 

 fubjed of motions. Of thefe we fliall, in like 

 manner, difl;ingui(li five which are fundamental : 

 felf-motion, or the rotation of a body round ir- 

 felf, which fuppofes no change of place, and 

 which is the principle of all motion ; fuch is, per- 

 haps, that of the Sun J after that, the perpendi- 

 cular, the circular, the horizontal, and the ftate of 



* Would not the efFe£l of this dreadful piélure have been 

 conflderably ftrengthened, had our Author reprefented his Eu- 

 ropean veflel as attempting to double Cape-Horn, on her return 

 from fpreading dévaluation over the South-Seas, and making 

 Ihipwreck on that dreary coaft, after the fcene of blood was 

 aded ? In this cafe we flaould have had the rtriking and inftruc- 

 tive reprefentation of the conneélion between Human Guilt 

 and Divine Juftice ; of the clafliing coliifion of criminality and 

 vengeance. H. H. 



X 2 reft. 



