352- STUDIES OF NATURE. 



months of the year ; but in the iilands fituated in 

 the South-Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, where the 

 Eaft-wind blows inceflantly from the fame quar- 

 ter, fhe has placed the mountains at the extremity 

 of the Land, in the part mofl remote from the 

 wind, that the brooks and rivers formed from the 

 clouds, which are accumulated by that wind on 

 their peaks, may flow through the whole extent of 

 thefe ifles. 



I am fenfible that I have elfewhere related thefe 

 laft obfervations, but I here prefent them in a new 

 light. Befides, (hould I fometimes fall into repe- 

 tition, there can be no great harm in repeating new 

 truths, and fome indulgence is due to the weak- 

 nefs of him who announces them. 



OF PROGRESSION. 



Progreflion is a feries of confonances, afcending 

 or defcending. Wherever we meet progreflion, 

 it produces exquifite pleafure, becaufe it excites 

 in our foul the fentiment of infinity, fo conform- 

 able to our nature, I have already faid, and it 

 cannot be repeated too frequently : Phyfical fen- 

 fations delight us only in fo far as they awaken an 

 intelledual fentiment» 



When 



