Chap* 6. of Nature in Vegetation. 1 8p 



grows too powerful, and hurries the Matter 

 with too great Rapidity through the finer and 

 more tender Plants. Thefe therefore ^o off and 

 decay, and others that are more hardy and 

 vigorous^ and require a greater pare oiHeat^ 

 fucceed in their Order. By which Mecha- 

 mim provident Nature furniflies us with a very 

 various and differing Entertainment , and 

 what is befifuited to each Seafon^ all the Tear 

 round. 



As the Heat of the fever al Seafons affords 

 us a different Face of Things ^ fo the fever a I 

 diftant Climates fhew different Scenes of Na- 

 ture, and ProduElions of the Earth (^a). The 

 Hotter Countries yield ordinarily the largefi 

 and talleji Trees^ and thofe too in much 

 greater Variety than the colder ever do. E- 

 ven thofe Plants which are common to hoth^ 

 attain to a much greater Bulk in the Southern ^ 

 than in the Northern Climes. Nay, there are 

 fome Regions fo bleak and chilly that they raife 

 no Vegetables at all to any confderabie fize. 

 This we learn from Groenland^ from Ifeland^ 

 and other Places of like cold Site and Conditi- 

 on. In thefe no Tree ever appears, and the 

 very Shrubs they afford are [exv^ little^ and low. 



I might have followed this Author farther, 

 but this I have copied is the moft material 5 

 and from what has been faid, are difcovera- 

 ble thofe innumerable Momenta's that are in 



(a) Conf.NaP, Hifi. Earph, p, 267, ^feq, 



all 



