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greateft length of the Continents, but only the 

 mean breadth of America and of Africa, becaufe 

 the îîftion of the Sun would there have been too 

 vehement. She has placed there, on the con- 

 trary, the longeft diameter of the South-Sea, and 

 the greateft breadth of the Atlantic Ocean, and 

 there Ihe has collecled the greateft quantity of 

 illands in exiftence. Farther, (lie has placed in 

 the breadth of the Continents, which flie has there 

 lengthened out, the greateft bodies of running 

 water that are in the World, all iffuing from 

 mountains of ice ; fuch as the Senegal and the 

 Nile, which iffue from the mountains of the 

 Moon in Africa ; the Amazon and the Oroonoko, 

 which have their fources in the Cordeliers of 

 America. 



Again, it is for this reafon that Ihe has multi- 

 plied, in the Torrid Zone, and in it's vicinity, 

 lofty chains of mountains covered with fnow, and 

 that file directs thither the winds of the North 

 Pole and of the South Pole, of which the Trade- 

 winds always partake. And it is very remarkable, 

 that feveral of the great rivers which flow there, 

 are not fituated precifely under the Line, but in 

 regions of the Torrid Zone, which are hotter than 

 the Line itfelf. Thus, the Senegal rolls it's ftream 

 in the vicinity of Zara, or the Defert, which, if 



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