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Creator of all these wonders, and that our excellent 

 poet Young had reason to say, 



" An indevout astronomer is mad," 



For from this concise sketch of the Creation you 

 will, although you are not an astronomer, easily com- 

 prehend that this globe, which men inhabit, and which 

 is divided into what we call immense oceans and vast 

 continents, is no more than a grain of sand among-the 

 ; works of Him who is infinite. 



" Yet is this mighty system which contains 

 So many worlds, such vast ethereal plains, 

 But one of thousands which compose the whole 

 Perhaps as glorious and of worlds as lull." 



With sincere affection I am, &c. 



LETTER IV. 



" Immediately the moantains hugh appear, 

 Emergent, and their broad backs upheave 

 Lite the clouds, their tops ascend the sky." 



MILTON*. 



DEAR SIR, 



the starry heavens we mast in the next 

 place, direct our attention to this sphere which is al- 

 lotted by the great Creator for the habitation of man- 

 kind, where we shall find abundance of objects to 

 attract our observation and excite our astonishment 

 at the multiplied .wonders it displays. We see the 

 earth divided into different compartments by seas, 

 watered by rivers, and its surface diversified by moun- 

 tains and valleys, exhibiting the most judicious ar- 

 rangement and producing the most beneficial conse- 

 quences. These inequalities of the earth's surface 

 may, by superficial observers, be regarded as a mere 

 capricious work of nature, a disposition without de- 

 sign, and many suppose them to have been caused 

 by the deluge which has left in ihis irregular state 

 the wreck of the antediluvian world. Although we 

 cannot pretend to say what changes may have ta- 



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