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vancing toward the South Pole, terminates in a 

 cape equally noted for violent tempefts, the Cape 

 of Good-Hope, and Cape-Horn. 



There are, befides, between thefe two Hemi- 

 fpheres, a variety of other points of confonance, 

 on which I fliall no longer infift. Thefe different 

 particulars, it is admitted, do not correfpond in ex- 

 aftly the fame Latitudes : but they are difpofed in 

 the diredion of a fpiral line winding from Eafl to 

 Weft, and extending from North to South, fo 

 that thefe correfponding points proceed in a regu- 

 lar progrefTion. They are nearly of the fame 

 height, fetting out from the North, as the Baltic 

 and Hudfon's-bay ; and they lengthen in America, 

 in proportion as it advances toward the South. 

 This progrefTion makes itfelf farther perceptible 

 along the whole length- of the Old Continent, as 

 may be feen from the form of it's Capes, which, 

 taking the point of departure from the Eaft, 

 lengthen fo much the more toward the South, as 

 they advance toward the Weft ; fuch as the Cape 

 of Kamchatka, in Afia ; Cape Comorin, in Ara- 

 bia; the Cape of Good-Hope, in Africa; and, 

 finally, Cape-Horn, in America. 



Thefe differences of proportion are to be ac- 

 counted for from this, that the two terreftrial He- 

 mifpheres are not projected in thc fame manner; 



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