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Remarks on Water and the Ocean» 



[aqua.] hoc .ELEMENTUM CiE.TERI3 OMNIBUS IMPERAT 



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N the Society Isles' we found very copious fp rings, of the spring s» 

 moil limpid, cool, and :fine water ; one of them elpecially, in 

 O-Rayetea, might vie with Horace's Fons Blandufice. The na- 

 lives had enlarged it to a fine refervoir, furrounded by large ftones, 

 in a ruftic manner, blended with .pleafing fimplicity 

 groups of the fineft trees 



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impending venerable rocks from whence the water iflued,, involved 

 it in a conftant fhade, and preferved a delicious coolnefs. The chry- 



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ftalline ftream, conftantly running from the refervoif, the verdure 

 of the trees and environs, invited the traveller, in thefe hot re;gions, 

 to a refreihin^g ablution of his wearied limbs, from which he rofe 

 .with new vigour to fiipport the fultrinefs of the climate, and to go 

 chearfuUy through the duties of life. 





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