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EARTH AND LANDS. 



great extent contains high mountains In its interior parts ; and 



wherever thofe are, there muft be 



Thefe would invite E 



ropean fettlers j efpecially fuch as would be wilh'ng to withdraw 

 themfelves from the oppreffions of growing defpotifm in Europe. 

 To fuch fons of liberty this continent would offer a new and happy 

 afylum : by which means it might become the feat of fciences and 

 arts ; happy in its cultivation, the riches of its producftionsj and the 



number of its inhabitants. 



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y^ The reft of the lands, not comprehended under thofe now enume- 

 rated, are only iflands. In our voyage we touched at the Cape of 



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Good Hope in Africa : we faw only the laft fragments of America 

 along the coafl of I'ierra del Fuego, and befides thefe, our own 



continent from which we came, and to which we again returned. 



We have therefore nothing to fay in particular relative to large lands, 



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if we except a fingle remark, which we collected from the accounts 

 of our friends on board the Adventure, who faw part of New-Hol- 



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land in 1773. The Southernmofl extremity of this continent has a 



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great fimilarlty to all the Southern points and extremities of conti- 

 nents, and therefore appears black, rocky, and of confiderable 

 * elevation ; though farther to the North, the country is even, and 



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without any remarkably high hills, at leaft near the fliores. 



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LANDS, 



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* The Cape of Good Hope prefcnts a'high, bleak, and rocky polut. Cape Comonn m 



India, aod Cape Froward in Amcricaj arc both of the fame nature^ 



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