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landers prospect, and the skirts of the hills 

 sanctuary to the bordering planes, shading 

 her plants from the fiery strokes of the sun 

 in summer, that defends them against im- 

 petuous and immoderate cold in winter, in- 

 cident there to in regard so situated, that it 

 lies north latitude near fifty nine degrees, 

 though reaching the cusp of our southern 

 situations. 



Formerly, I confess, I flattered my self 

 with Scotland's intemperance ; but my opi- 

 nion is otherwise now, because having suf- 

 ficiently examined to the contrary, and ad- 

 judg it an error in any man to denounce 

 sentence before examination. Are the Ar- 

 tick and Antartick Poles at variance, be- 

 cause of distance and seemingly contrary 

 actings ? or stand they in opposition one 

 to another, because Aristotle's philosophy 

 could not reconcile them ? Must it there- 

 fore follow that there's no correspondency, 

 no congruity nor harmony betwixt them ? 

 when it's evident they are exerted by the 

 universal spirit of nature, whereby they act 

 and react upon one another : else would the 

 tides of themselves stand still, and because 

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