loS STUDIES OF NATURE. 



burning Tropics ; and forefls of mofly firs begird 

 k under the Polar Circles. Other vegetables ex- 

 tend, like rays, from South to North, and, having 

 reached a certain latitude, expire. The banana 

 advances from the Line to the fouthern (bore of 

 the Mediterranean. The orange croffes that Sea, 

 and embeiliflies, with it's golden fruit, the fou- 

 thern extremities of Europe. The moft neceffary 

 plants, fucli as corn and the gramineous tribes, 

 penetrate the fartheft, and,{lrong from their weak- 

 nefs, ftretch, in the fl:ielter of the vailles, from the 

 banks of the Ganges to the ûiores of the Frozen 

 Ocean. 



Others, more hardy, take their departure from 

 the rude climates of the North, advance over the 

 fummit of Mount Taurus, and make their way, 

 under favour of the fnows, into the very bofom of 

 the Torrid Zone. The fir and the cedar clothe the 

 mountains of Arabia, and of the kingdom of 

 Cachemire, and view at their feet the fcorched 

 plains of Aden and Lahorj where the date and the 

 fugar-cane are reaped. Other trees, equally averfe 

 to heat and cold, have their centre in the Tempe- 

 rate Zones. The vine languifhes in Germany and 

 Senegal. The apple, the tree of my own country, 

 never faw the Sun perpendicularly over it's head ; 

 or defcribing round it the complete circle of the 

 tïoïizon, to ripcii it's beautiful fruit. 



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