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from the vegetable and animal kingdoms, and 

 from Man, which evince that they have exifted, 

 fuch as we now fee them, from the very origin of 

 the Globe : it will be fufficient for me to give an 

 idea of their conftrudion, in order to produce 

 perfedl conviélion in every candid mind, that they 

 are in no one refpeét the work of chance. They 

 contain, as Continents themfelves do, mountains, 

 peaks, rivers, and lakes, proportioned to their 

 magnitude. For the purpofe of demonflrating 

 this new truth, I fhall be ftill under the neceffity 

 of faying fomewhat refpedting the diftribution of 

 the Globe ; but I fhall not be long, and fhall en- 

 deavour to introduce nothing but what is abfolutely 

 needful to make myfelf underftood. 



It is, firft, to be remarked, that the chains of 

 mountains in both Continents, are parallel to the 

 Seas which wafh their coafts : fo that if you fee 

 the plan of one of thefe chains, with it's different 

 branches, you are able to determine the Iliore of 

 the Sea which correfponds to them ; for, as I have 

 juft faid, the mountains and thefe are always pa- 

 rallel. You may, in like manner, on feeing the 

 fmuofities of a fliore, determine thofe of the chains 

 of mountains which are in the interior of a coun- 

 try ; for the gulfs of a Sea always correfpond to 

 the valleys of the mountains of the lateral Con- 

 tinent. 



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