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CHANGES fummer in Tierra del Fuego and South. Georgia, could not 



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think ourfelves completely unhappy;^ and a fingle momentarjr 

 recoUedion of the winters of thofe wretched climates,,, is even now 

 fufficient to make us ihudder at the very thought of it.. 



However, we find that thefe changes of thefeafon in the tropl- 

 cal and temperate zones, caufe coniiderahle alterations j. which pro- 



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infinitely more confpicuous there,, than in the more rigid climates.. 

 The conftant fuccefiion of vegetation within the tropics, infufes 

 every where life, and affords food to millions of animated beings, of 

 the human and animal kind; the temperate zones haveftill vegetation 

 'enough toenliven the fcene,, and to feed many thoufands ; butthewhole 

 creation feems lifelefs and torpid, in. the frozen climates of Tierra 

 del Fuego,. and Staten Land ; and the little life which is left to na- 



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ture, is confined to a very ihort fpace of time ; and even its greateft 

 adivity, in the motion of whales, feals and pinguins,. the only nu- 

 meroua inhabitants of thefe regions, is abfolute torpor, when, 

 compared with the agility of the animated beings of warmer and 

 more happy regions. In proportion as places lie nearer to the courfe 

 of the fun 5 foil and mould, the great promoters of vegetation are 

 increafed ; and in the fame proportion all organic bodies animate 

 the lifelefs, chaotic part of the flrata of our globe.. But as I have 



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already fpoken of thefe changes, it may be fufficient here to hint at 

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