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other places, to which we can afterwards advert with 

 more effect. What has been mentioned will tend to 

 show that, even in one of its departments, that portion 

 of the earth's surface which, on account of its flatness 

 and its sterility, is the least pleasing or promising, is yet 

 fraught with lessons of the greatest importance, if we 

 would only pause and read them. Nor even when the 

 moor has advanced one step further, and become a 

 desart in the burning climate, or a peat-bog in the cold 

 and marshy one, can we dare to say, that it is without its 

 usefulness. The peat-bog is the coal-field of future 

 times, and the waste of Zahara must have its use, or it 

 would not have existence. 



