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But this very idea leads me to another view of nature, 

 heitee and all the high iflands, are in general more happy and more 

 fertile, than ' the low iflands, and thofe of a moderate height. 

 The high hills in the middle of the firfl, attra^ by their fituation,. 



;re are but few 



olved in fog-s and cloud 



all the vapours and clouds that pafs near them ; th 

 days, on which their fummits are not in^ 



nd though it does not conftantly rain there, yet fuch a regular fup- 

 of moifcure is derived from thefe hills, that their very tops 



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are crowne 



d with lofty trees, and their fides fringed with fhrubs and 

 agreeable plants during the whole year ; and all the furrounding valleys 

 colka in their bofom the falutary humidity, which is not abforbed 

 by thefe plants, and which is generoully fcreened by them 



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from the fmaller rills, which unite into one bed 



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tives ftem here and there by wears, made of large ftones, in order 



the plantations of eddoes; the frequent trees that 



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Ing along the banks of the fweet purling flream, extend their fhady 

 branchs, give a coolnefs to the virgin-water, and thus bring refrefh^ 



ment, and the principles of life 



the plains, wh 



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meander between the rich plantations of bread-fruit, apple 



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s, and fpreads happinefs and plenty. 



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hefe rivers become the fountains and chief caufes of the great va 



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hich grow every where 5 they enliven the pi(^u 



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