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very children, which fervc them as beads of bur- 

 den all over the Globe. 



There is not a fpot of the Earth, or of the Sea, 

 but what furnifhes them with fome article of enjoy- 

 ment. The gulfs of the Ocean provide them pearls, 

 it's Ihallovvs, ambergris, and it's icy promontories, 

 furs. At home, they have reduced the rivers and 

 mountains to a ftate of vaflalage, in order to re- 

 ferve to themielves feudal rights to fiftieries and 

 chafes. But there was no occafion to put theni' 

 felves to fo much expenfe. The fands of Africa, 

 where they have no game-keeper, fend them, in 

 clouds, quails, and other birds of paffage, which 

 crofs the Sea in Spring, to load their table in Au- 

 tumn. The Northern Pole, where they have no 

 cruifer, pours on their fliores, every Summer, le- 

 gions of mackerel, of frelh cod, and of turbots, 

 fattened in the long nights of Winter. 



Not only the fowls and the fifhes change, for 

 them, their climate, but the very trees themfelves. 

 Their orchards, formerly, were tranfplanted from 

 Afia, and, now, their parks from Am.erica. In- 

 ftead of the chefnutand walnut, which furrounded 

 the farms of their vaflals, in the ruftic domains of 

 their anceftors, the ebony, the forb-apple of Ca- 

 nada, the great chefnut of India, the magnolium, 



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