FORMAT 



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O F 



SOIL 



climates capable of being affiiled by the benevolent influence of 



the fun, the greater advances you difcover towards improvement, and 



fertility; 



articles of mineral bodies whatfoever are dead; 



All the various par 

 and only the organic bodies of vegetables, and. animals are capable of 



life 



Wherever 



meet 



fir ft 



appear 



only, there nature has all the 



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ce of barrennefs, the horrors of defolation. and filence of 

 But theleafl addition of vegetation enlivens the fcene, and 



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even the flow motions of unwieldy and torpid feals:and grave pin- 



on the fhores, infufe life and chearfulnefs into the. beholder. 

 But when the furface of a land is clad with plants and diveriified 



gums 



with birds 



d 



imals,- then firfl we have an idea of the vivify 



ing powers- of nature and its great Lord.. This previous obfervation 

 therefore, will enable us to form a juft idea of each of the above 

 unimproved, rudfe lands. The barren bleak rocks of Sand wi ch- 

 LAND'feem not to be covered by the Leaft atom of mould, nor is 



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there any vellige of vegetation to be feen : immenfe loads of eternal 

 fnow, bury thefe^ barren rocks,- as if doomed to be under the curfe of 



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nature y and continual fogs, involve if in perpetual darknefs *.. 



Southern-Georgia has on its North Weft point a little illej. 

 which is- covered with greens, and, in PofTeiTion Bay we faw two: 



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rocks^. 



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FORMA- 

 TION OR 

 SOIL. 



* Pltny% words, Hift. Nat. 1; 4. fcem therefore to be beft applicable to tKis mifcrable- 



land: pars mumU da?nnata a rcrum natural^ atema merfa cal'gzne.. 



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