C24 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



After having rendered the Capital a refort of 

 happinefs, and of improvement, to our own Na- 

 tion, I would allure to it the men of foreign Na- 

 tions, from every corner of the Globe. O ! ye 

 Women, who regulate our deftiny, how much 

 ought you to contribute towards uniting Mankind, 

 in a City where your empire is unbounded 1 In 

 miniftring to your pleafures, do men employ them- 

 felves over the face of the whole Earth. While 

 you are engrofied wholly in enjoyment, the Lap* 

 lander iflues forth, in the midft of ftorm and tem- 

 peft, to pierce with his harpoon the enormous 

 whale, whofe beard is to ferve for fhuffing to your 

 robes: a man of China puts into the oven the 

 porcelain out of which you fip your coffee, while 

 an Arabian of Moka is bufied in gathering the 

 berry for you : a young woman of Bengal, on the 

 banks of the Ganges, is fpinning your mullin, 

 while a Ruffian, amidft the forefts of Finland, is 

 fellino; the tree which is to be converted into a 

 maft for the velTel that is to bring it home to you. 



The glory of a great Capital is to affemble, 

 within it's walls, the men of all Nations who con- 

 tribute to it's pleafures. I (hould like to fee, at 

 Paris, the Samoïèdes, with their coats of fea-calf- 

 ikin, and their boots of fl:urgeon*s hide ; andrthe 

 black lolofs, dreffed in their waift-attire, ftreaked 

 with red and blue. Ï could widi to fee there the 



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