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and Plains, Woods, and Coppices are wondrous 

 fertile, whereas the Summits of Mountains and 

 Hills are generally fpeaking barren enough ; and 

 this laft Article, I would willingly affign for the 

 true Reafon, why nothing bigger than fmall 

 Buihes are caft afliore to the Southward oi Charles 

 Fort (as mentioned in the foregoing paragraph) 

 in Storms and Hurricanes, whofe raging Billows 

 want fufficient force or violence to difturb the 

 lower receffes of the Abyfs of the Ocean. If it 

 be objeded, That Natura 7jil agit frujlra \ and 

 of courfe, what ufe can they be of? The felf 

 fame fruitful Fancy will as readily make anfwer, 

 That the Bark, ^c. on fuch confiderable and 

 lofty Trees, may ferve the greater Leviathans of 

 the Ocean by way of Food ; and moreover, That 

 fuch tall Woods as well as the (horter Coppices 

 and Shrubs may ftop the too violent purfuit of the 

 more ravenous fort of them after the fmaller Fry, 

 who without fuch places of retreat would be 

 fwallowed up in whole Shoals. Befides Provi- 

 dence may appoint other ufes of them which are 

 unknown to us. 



12. I had like to have forgot to acquaint you. 

 That the Bufli in which Mr. 'Pinheiro'^ Line was 

 entangled, grew out of a foftifli Rock (a piece of 

 which about the bignefs of my Fift I fent with 

 my Shells) that is heavy, white, porous, and when 



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