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iindled on the heights, that these islanders 

 make signals from one station to another. 

 Terra del Ftieijo, though a frozen region , 



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has been so named in allusion to the fires 

 which navigators behold burning on the 



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mountains as they approach its shore. 



Another prerogative -which reason gives 

 to man over the brute creation, is the power 

 of procuring at least a part of bis subsistence 

 by the culture of the soil : if it be not com- 

 pletely steril, as in the northern regions of 

 the two hemispheres; and if savage man 

 neglect the practice of agriculture, it pro- 

 ceeds less from ignorance than a natural 

 love of indolence. Even the negroes of the 

 western coast of Africa, though having, 

 from the nature of their climate, only few 

 wants, nevertheless cultivate a small portion 

 of rice, as well as the natives of Madagas- 

 car. Yon are already well acquainted with 

 the flourishing state of agriculture among 

 the Chinese ; and if this art be less prized 

 among the Malavs. it is because Nature 



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spontaneously 



