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ACCIDENTAL CHANGES 



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 GLOBE. 



F we confider the changes our globe has undergone from acci- changes 

 dental caufes, we find the Artificial Changes made on 

 the furface of our globe by mankind, not to be the leafl con- 



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Where man the lord of the creation on this globe, has never 

 attempted any change on it, there nature feems only to thrive ; for 

 in reality it languifhes, and is deformed by being left to itfelf-j-. 

 Impenetrable woods cover the furface of thefe regions -, its trees are 

 no doubt here and there large and fine, but many are decayed, and 

 ilill more lying on the ground rotting 3 here is a tree without its 

 rind, another without a top ; all the ground below is over-run with 

 briars, and weeds, and climbers,' which hinder you from fetting a 

 foot forward : all that feems to vegetate and thrive is fufFocated, and 



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buried under moffes, lichens and mufhrooms. The water flagnates 

 every where, and caufes immenfe fwamps, which are unfit "to ferve 

 either the inhabitants of the land, or thofe of the water -, being 



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over-run with gigantic but coarfe plants, affording very little food 



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-to the more ufeful parts of the animated creation. 



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* Mr-, de Buffon, premiere Vue de la Nature, vol, xsiv. dc 1' Edit, ^.n i^rao. 



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