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and their polar effufions would there encounter 

 each other with an impetuofity of commotion, of 

 which the icy efFufions precipitated from the Alps, 

 with all the dreadful ravages which they commit, 

 convey but a faint idea. But by the alternate and 

 oppofite Currents of the Seas, the icy efFufions of 

 our Pole proceed, in Summer, to cool Africa, 

 Brafil, and the fouthern parts of Afia, forcing it's 

 way beyond the Cape of Good-Hope, by the 

 Monfoon which then carries the Current of the 

 Ocean toward the Eaft; and, during our Winter, 

 the effufions of the South-Pole proceed toward the 

 Weft, to moderate, on the fame fliores, the aélion 

 of the Sun, which is there unremitting. By means 

 of thefe two fpiral motions of the Seas, fimilar to 

 thofe of the Sun in the Heavens, there is not a 

 Cngle drop of water but what may make the tour 

 of the Globe, by evaporation under the Line, dif- 

 folution into rain in the Continent, and congelation 

 under the Pole. Thefe univerfal correfpondencies 

 are fo much the more worthy of being remarked, 

 that they enter into all the plans of Nature, and 

 prefent themfelves in the reft of her Works. 



From any other imaginable order would refuk 

 other inconveniencies, which I leave the Reader to 

 find out. Hypothefes ab abjiirdoy are at once 

 amufmg and ufeful ; they change, it is true, na- 

 tural proportions into caricatures ; but they have 



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