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globe is fubje(ft. As the power of gravity near the equinodial line 

 is known to be lefs than towards the poles, the atmofphere natu- 

 rally muft be lefs attracfted between the tropicks than beyond them ; 

 and confequently being befides more heated and therefore more 

 rarefied, it mufl extend to a greater height betw^een the tropicks ;. 

 and probably this may contribute, with the before mentioned 



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caufes, towards removing there the line of eternal fhow to a greater 

 diftance from the common level of the earth,. 



The probable caufes, of the Southern hemifphere being 

 in correfponding degrees of latitude, than the Northern hemifphere^ 

 fhall be explained in the fedion, wherein we fpeak of the formation 



of ice.. 



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SOIL. 



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SOIL. 



rTr>HE Tropical Isles have all the appearance of a long exift- 

 •*" enee and fertility. But the Southernmoft parts of New- 

 Z;eeland,Tierra del Fuego,, Staten-Land, Southern- 

 Georgia and Sandwich -Land are'ftill unimproved, and in that 

 rude flate in which they fprung up from the firft chaos ; with this 



diflindion, that the farther you proceed towards the line and the 



climates 



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