134 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



rhe tulip-bearing laurel, encircle their country- 

 palaces with the umbrage of the New World, and, 

 ere long, of its folitudes. They have fummoned 

 the jafmin from Arabia, the orange from China, 

 the pine-apple from Brafil, and a multitude of 

 fweet-fcenred plants, from every region of the 

 torrid Zone. They have no longer occafion for 

 funs : they can difpofe of latitudes. They can 

 convey, in their hot-houfes, the heats of Syria to 

 exotic plants, at the very feafon when their hinds 

 are pcrifliing with the cold of the Alps, in their 

 hovels. 



No one of the productions of Nature can efcape 

 their avidity. What they cannot have living, they 

 contrive to have dead. The infeds, birds, (helU 

 fi(h, minerals, nay, the very foil, of the moft dif- 

 tant lands, enrich their cabinets. Painting and 

 engraving prêtent them with the profpeâ:, and 

 procure them the enjoyment, of the Glaciers of 

 Switzerland, during the burning heat of the Dog- 

 days ; and of the Spring of the Canaries, in the 

 midft of Winter. The intrepid Navigator brings 

 them, from regions into which the Arts dare not 

 to penetrate, journals of voyages, ftill more inte- 

 refting than the produdtions of the pencil ; and 

 redouble the fjlence, the tranquillity, the fecurity 

 of their nights, fometimes by a recital of the 



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