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for the Old Continent has it's greatefl breadth 

 from Eaft to Weft, and the New has it*s greater 

 extent from North to South ; and it is manifefl:, 

 that this difference of projection has been regu- 

 lated by the Author of Nature, for the fame rea- 

 fons which induced Him to beftow double parts 

 on animals and on vegetables, in order that, if 

 neceffity required, the one might fupply what was 

 deficient in the other, but principally that they 

 might be of mutual affiftance. 



If, for example, there exifted only the Ancient 

 Continent, with the South-Sea alone, the motion 

 of that Sea being too much accelerated, under the 

 Line, by the regular winds from the Eaft, would, 

 after having furrounded the Torrid Zone, advance 

 with incredible fury, and attack tremendoufly the 

 Land of Japan : for the fize of the billows of a 

 Sea, is always in proportion to it's extent. But 

 from the difpofition of the two Continents, the 

 billows of the great eaftern Current of the Indian 

 Ocean, arc partly retarded by the archipelagos of 

 the Moluccas and Philippine Iflands; they are 

 ftill farther broken by other illands, fuch as the 

 Maldivia, by the Capes of Arabia, and by that of 

 Good-Hope, which throws them back toward the 

 iSouth. Before they reach Cape-Horn, they have 

 to encounter new obftacles, from the Current of 

 the South Pole, which then croiTes their courfe, 



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