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in the bofom of the water, I was not a little afto- 

 nifhed to hear other waves emitting a dying found 

 behind me. I turned round, and perceived only 

 a high and fteep fhore, the echos of which were 

 repeating the noife of the waves. This double 

 confonance appeared to me wonderfully agreeable. 

 You would have faid there was a mountain in the 

 fêa, and a fea in the mountain. 



Thofe tranfpofitions of harmony, from one ele- 

 ment to another, communicate inexprefTible plea- 

 fure. Nature has multiplied them, accordingly, 

 with boundlefs liberality, not only in fugitive 

 images, but by permanent forms. She has repeat- 

 ed, in the midft of the Seas, the forms of Conti- 

 nents, in thofe of Iflands ; mod of which, as we 

 have feen, have peaks, mountains, lakes, rivers, 

 and plains, proportioned to their extent, as if they 

 were little Worlds. On the other hand, (lie repre- 

 fents in the midft of the Land, the bafons of the 

 yaft Ocean, in mediterraneans, and in great lakes, 

 which hav« their fliores, their rocks, their ifles, 

 their volcanos, their currents, and, fometimes, a 

 iiux and reflux peculiar to themfelves, and which 

 is occafioned by the effufions from icy mountains, 

 at the bafis of which they are commonly fituated, 

 as the currents and tides of the Ocean are, by 

 thofe of the Poles. 



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