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The cistern trunk of the vast ban tree, when once filled with water in the 

 Spring months of rain, supplies refreshment in the midst of Africans hot 

 sands, during the intense heat of a protracted summer. The abundant sap 

 of the Lianne, on the parched rocks of the Antilles, is a salubrious and 

 limpid vegetable fountain. The raining-tree of the Canaries, and the bussa 

 butyracea of Indostan; the Lapland hair-moss, the New Zealand flax plant, 

 the Kamtchatka lily, and the coroa-nut of the Nicobar Islands ; the breeid- 

 fruit ot the South Seas, and the date-palm of the desert of Zahara, afford a 

 few only of the innumerable testimonies, that proclaim with a sublime elo- 

 quence : 



" There's mercy in every place." 



" O Lord ! how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made 

 tfiem all." 



. CONRAD, PRINTER. 



