RECAPITULATION. 371 



RECAPITULATION. 



I HAVE prefented, from the beginning of this 

 Work, the different paths of Nature which I 

 propofed to purfue, on purpofe to form to myfelf 

 an idea of the order which governs the World. 

 I brought forward, in the firft place, the objedlions 

 which have, in all ages, been raifed againft a Pro- 

 vidence ; I have exhibited them as applied to the 

 feveral kingdoms of Nature, one after another; 

 which furnifhed me with an opportunity, in re- 

 futing them, of difplaying views entirely new, re- 

 fpeding the difpofition, and the ufe, of the diffe- 

 rent parts of this Globe : I have, accordingly, re- 

 ferred the direction of the chains of Mountains, 

 on the Continents, to the regular Winds which 

 blow over the Ocean ; the pofition of Iflands, to 

 the confluence of it's Current^, or of thofe of 

 Rivers; the confiant fiipply of fuel to Volcanos, 

 to the bituminous depofits on it's fliores ; the Cur- 

 rents of the Sea, and th-e movements of the Tides, 

 to the alternate eftufions of the Pouir Ices. 



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