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organic productions of the southern hemisphere, 

 transposing the places in imagination to Europe, 

 with which we are so much better acquainted. 

 Then, near Lisbon, the commonest sea-shells, 

 namely, three species of Oliva, a Voluta, and Ter- 

 ebra, would have a tropical character. In the 

 southern provinces of France, magnificent forests, 

 intwined by arborescent grasses, and with the trees 

 loaded with parasitical plants, would hide the face 

 of the land. The puma and the jaguar would 

 haunt the Pyrenees. In the latitude of Mont 

 Blanc, but on an island as far westward as central 

 North America, tree-ferns and parasitical Orchi- 

 dea3 would thrive amidst the thick woods. Even 

 as far north as central Denmark, humming-birds 

 would be seen fluttering about delicate flowers, and 

 parrots feeding amidst the evergreen woods ; and 

 in the sea there we should have a Voluta, and all 

 the shells of large size and vigorous growth. Nev- 

 ertheless, on some islands only 360 miles northward 

 of our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a carcass bu- 

 ried in the soil (or if washed into a shallovr sea, 

 and covered up with mud) would bo preserved 

 perpetually frozen. If some bold navigator at- 

 tempted to penetrate northward of these islands, 

 he would run a thousand dangers amidst gigantic 

 icebergs, on some of which he would see great 

 blocks of rock borne far away from their original 

 site. Another island of large size in the latitude 

 of southern Scotland, but twice as far to the west, 

 would be " almost wholly covei'ed with everlasting 

 snow," and would have each bay terminated by ice- 

 cliffs, whence great masses would be yearly de- 

 tached : this island would boast only of a little 

 moss, grass, and burnet, and a titlark would be its 

 only land inhabitant. From our new Cape Horn 

 in Denmark, a chain of mountains, scarcely half 



