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fcie American fpecies do'not appear: till we reach tKe Weftern Ides, vege- 

 table 

 called the Hebrides, which are however the farthcfl removed, from kingdom 



that continent. Part of thefe exceptions are perhaps owing to the 



inhabitants, who. Being of a more civilized nature in the 

 ifl'es, have brought feveral plants with them from India, for culti- 

 vation, which the others have neglected.. The fame circumflance 



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alfo, accounts for the arrival of therfpontaneous Indian fpecies in theie 

 Eafternmofl iiles ^ they being probably, as I have already obferved, 

 brought among the feeds of the- cultivated forts.. In confirmation 



of which, it rnay be alledged, that the Indian 



monly found on the plains' in the Society Iiles, and the fp 



American fpecies on the mountains. 



are com- 



c. 



A few plants are common to all the climates of the South oea % 



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among thefe is chiefly the celery, and a fpecies of fcurvy 



grais 



(Arabis) both which are generally found in the low iilands betv/een 



the tropics, on- the beaches of New Zeeland, and on the burnt 



iilands of Tierra del Fuego. Several other fpecies feem to have 

 obviated the differences in the climate by a higher cr lower fituation : 



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a plant, for inflance, which occupies - the highefl: fummits ^i the 



mountains at 0-Taheitee, (or any of the Society Ifles) and groivs 



only as a flirub, in New Zeeland is found in the valley, and forms 

 atreeofconfiderable height; nay the difference is fenfible in differ- 

 ent parts of New Zeeland itfelf: thus a fine fnrubby tree at Duflcy 



Bay 



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