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IV. 



emarh on the Changes of our 



Globe* 



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CHANGES 



OF THE 

 gI-OBE., 



Jn NOVA FERT ANIMUS MUTATAS DICERE FOR MAS 



.Corpora, 



Ovid. 



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AVI N G briefly treated of the nature of the land we met 

 in the courfe of our navigation, of the waters, and the 



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flitution and changes of the atmofphere, wc have ftill fome few re- 

 marks to make on the changes our globe has undergone, both from 

 caufes which come on in the regular courfe of nature, and likewife 



from others which are accidental. 



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regular changes. 



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H E conftant fucceffion of fummer and winter, of heat and 

 cold, is in the temperate zones, in general mo^e ilriking and 

 remarkable than in the torrid zone : but I may,, perhaps, with equal 

 truth ajfTert, that the tropical iiles of the South Sea, enjoy more emi- 

 ' ciently than any others, an equal temperature and conftant mild wea- 

 ther, by their happy fituation in a great ocean, where conftantly al- 

 ternating fea and laiid breeezes, mitigate the violence of a vertical fun. 



