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turc. Kind Nature has there placed on trees, in 

 the (hade, and within the reach of the hand, all 

 that is neceffary and agreeable to human life. She 

 has there depofited milk and butter in the nuts of 

 the cocoa-tree; perfumed creams in the apples of 

 the atte ; table-linen and provifion in the large fat- 

 tiny leaves, and in the delicious figs of the banana; 

 loaves ready for the fire in the potatoes, and the 

 roots of the manioc ; down finer than the wool of 

 the fleecy flieep in the fliell of the cotton plant ; 

 dilhos of every form in the gourds of the calabafTe. 

 She had there contrived habitations, impenetrable 

 by the rain and by the rays of the Sun, under the 

 thick branches of the Indian fig-tree, which, rifing 

 toward Heaven, and afterwards defcending down 

 to the ground where they take root, form, by their 

 continued arcades, palaces of verdure. She had 

 fcattered about, for the purpofes at once of de- 

 light and of commerce, along the rivers, in the 

 bofom of the rocks, and in the very bed of tor- 

 rents, the maize, the fugar-cane, the chocolate- 

 nut, the tobacco plant, with a multitude of other 

 ufeful vegetables, and, from the refemblance of 

 the Latitudes of this New World to that of the 

 different countries of the Old, flie promiled it's 

 future inhabitants to adopt, in their favour, the 

 coffee- plant, the indigo, and the other mod: val un- 

 able vegetable produdions of Africa and of Alia. 

 Wherefore has the ambition of Europe inundated 



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