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plains, and included in coral reefs: and many other cluflers of 

 mountainous illands, deftitute both of reefs and plains. We have 

 obferved how much the leafl attractive of thefe tropical countries, 



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furpaffes the ruder fcenery of New Zeeland : how much more 

 difcouraging than this, are the extremities of America ; and laflly, 

 how dreadful the fouthern coafls appear, which we difcovered. In 

 the fame manner, the plants that inhabit thefe lands, will be found 

 to differ in number, ftature, beauty, and ufe. 



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 TABLE 



kingdom: 



LOW 



ISLES 



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The Low Iflands which are difperfed in the Pacific Ocean be 

 tween the tropics, are of an inconfiderable fize, and confequently 

 produce few forts of plants : however, the great abundance of 

 cocornut palms on them, gives them a pleafmg afped at a diftance ; 

 fome trees and ihrubs that flourifh on the ihores, a few antifcor 

 butic fimples, and fomxC plants which have the quality of intoxi 

 eating fifh, compofe their whole Flora. 



S O C I E T Y 



ISLE S. 



But nature and 



art have united their efforts in the Society liles, 

 ilrike the beholder with the magnificence of profpeds, and to 

 -aken every idea of beauty, by the variety of harmonious forms 



and 



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They confifl of pi 



hills, and a high range of 



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mountains 



