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 able Verdure of Herbs, befpangled with an in- 

 finite Variety of fpecious and fragrant Flowers ; 

 for thofe Plants that grow at the bottom of the 

 Sea, are for the moft part of a dull, fullen, and 

 dirty Olive Colour, and bear no Flowers at all ; 

 inftead of the elegant Shapes and Colours, the 

 Sagacity and Docility of ingenious Beafts and 

 Birds, the mufical Voices and Accents of the 

 aereal Chorifters, there had been nothing but 

 mute, and ftupid, and indocil Fifhcs, which feem 

 to want the very Senfe of Difcipline, as may be 

 gathered from that they are not vocal, and that 

 there appear in them no Organs of hearing, it 

 being alfo doubtful whether the Element they 

 live in be capable of tranfmitting Sounds^ the 

 beft Senfe they have, even their Sight, can be but 

 dull and imperfed:, the Element of Water being 

 femi-opake, and reflecting a good part of the 

 Beams of Light ; the moft noble and ingenious 

 Creatures that live there, the Cetaceous Kind, 

 being near a-kin to terreftrial Animals, and 

 breathing in the fame Element, the open Air. 

 Had, I fay, all been Water, there had been no 

 Place for fuch a Creature as Man, as we fee there 

 is no fuch there i there is no Bufinefs for him, 

 no Subjedl to employ his Art and Faculties, and 

 confequently there could be no Effeds of them ; 

 no fuch Things as Houfes and Cities, and (late- 

 ly Edifices ; as Gardens and Orchards, and Walks, 

 and Labyrinths j as Corn-Fields and Vineyards, 

 and the reft of thefe Ornaments, wherewith the 



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