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with aftonifliment, I mufl confefs, when I obferved, 

 in the duplicity of forms which conflitute it, mem- 

 bers exadly repeated on that fide and on this. 



Tlie Globe, if we confider it from Eafl to Weft, 

 is divided, as all organized bodies are, into two fmii- 

 lar halves, which are the Old and the New World. 

 Each of their parts mutually correfponds in the eaf- 

 tern and weftern Hemifpheres ; fea to fea, ifland to 

 ifland, cape to cape, peninfula to peninfula. The 

 lakes of Finland, and the gulf of Archangel, corre- 

 fpond to the lakes of Canada and Baffin's-bay ^ Nova 

 Zembla to Greenland ; the Baltic to Hudfon's-bay ; 

 the Ifland s of Great-Britain and Ireland, which cover 

 the firft of thefe mediterraneans, to the Iflands of 

 Good-Fortune and Welcome, which proteâ: the fé- 

 cond; the Mediterranean, properly fo called, to the 

 gulf of Mexico, which is a kind of mediterranean, 

 formed, in part, by iflands. At the extremity of 

 the Mediterranean, we find the ifthmus of Suez 

 in confonance with the ifthmus of Panama, placed 

 at the bottom of the gulf of Mexico. Conjoined 

 by thofe ifthmufes, the peninfula of Africa prefents 

 itfelf in the Old World, and the peninfula of 

 South- America in the New. The principal rivers 

 of thefe divifions of the Globe front each other in 

 like manner; for the Senegal difcharges itfelf into 

 the Atlantic, diredly oppofite to the river of the 

 Amazons» Finally, each of thefe peninfulas, ad- 



z 4 vancing 



