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improbable •, for there being not fo great Inequa- 

 lity of Weather in thofe hot Countries, as there 

 is in cold, the Body is kept in a more equal Tem- 

 per, and not having fuch frequent Shocks, as 

 are occalion'd by fuch Air, and often Changes, 

 and that from one Extreme to another, holds 

 out much longer. So we fee infirm and crazy 

 Perfons, when they come to be fo weak as to be 

 fixed to their Beds, hold out many Years, fome 

 I have heard of, that have laid bed-rid 20 Years: 

 Becaufe in the Bed they are always kept in an 

 almoft equal Temper of Heat, who, had they 

 been expofed to the Exceffes of Heat and Cold, 

 would not probaby have furvived one. 



Seeing then, this bed pofture which our Rea- 

 fon could make choice of, we fee really eftablifli- 

 ed in Nature, we cannot but acknowledge it to 

 be the iffue of Wifdom, Counfel, and Provi- 

 dence. Moreover, a further Argument to evince 

 this is, That though it cannot but be acknow- 

 ledged, that if the Axis of the Earth were per- 

 pendicular to the Plane of the Ecliptick, her 

 Motion would be more eafy and natural, yet 

 notwithftanding, for the Conveniences fore- 

 mentioned, we fee it is made in an inclining po- 

 fture. 



Another very confiderable, and heretofore 

 unobferv'd Convenience of this inclination of 

 the Earth's Axisy Mr. Keill aifords us in his Ex- 

 amination of Dr. Burnet'^ 'theory of the Earthy 

 p. 69. 



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