STUDY I. T07 



than it's accuftomed portion of water. Every 

 River fills his urn, and every Na'iad her fliell. In 

 their proorefs, they imprefs on the liquid plains of 

 the Sea, the variety of their charaders. Some 

 hardly ruffle the fmooth expanfe ; others fwell it 

 into billows of azure j and others turn it up from 

 the bottom with a dreadful noife, and dafh it 

 foaming over the rocky promontory. 



Every place poffefles harmonies peculiar to it- 

 felf, and every place prefents them in rotation. 

 Run over, at pleafure, a Meridian, or a Parallel, 

 you will find on it mountains of ice, and moun- 

 tains of fire; plains of every kind of level, and 

 hills of every curve ; iilands of all forms, and ri- 

 vers of all currents ; fome fpouting up, as if they 

 iflued from the centre of the Earth, others preci- 

 pitating themfelves down in catarads, as if they 

 were defcending from the clouds. Neverthelefs, 

 this Globe, agitated with fuch a variety of convul- 

 five movements, and loaded with fuch a variety of 

 burdens, apparently fo irregular, advances in a 

 fteady and unalterable courfe through the immen- 

 iity of the Heavens. 



Beauties of a different order decorate it's Archi- 

 teâiure, and render it habitable to fenfible beings. 

 A girdle of palm-trees, to which are fufpended 

 the date and the cocoa, furrounds it between the 



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