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were not the cafe, nothing is more eafily to be conceived, than that the 

 ahTLofI: conflant ftrong Weflerly winds in that part, may detach thefe 

 weeds, and carry them over all the ocean. If thislaft circumftance 



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well afcertained, it is 



mo ft 



likely, that the weeds once torn 



up, begin from that time to decay, and a kind of random-guefs of 



the vicinity of land, i 

 the Hate of the weeds. 



ght be formed upon the bare infpedion of 



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HE countries of the South Sea, and the Southern coafls, con- 

 tain a confiderable variety of animals, though they are confined 



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to a few clalTes only. We have feen by what degrees nature defcended 



from the gay enamel of the plains of the Society liles, to the hor- 

 rid barrennefs of the Southern Sandwich Land. In the fame 

 manner the animal world, from being beautiful, rich, enchanting, 

 between the tropics ; falls into deformity, poverty, and difguftfulnefs 



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in the Southern coafts. We cannot help being in raptures, when 



we tread the paths of O-Taheitean g 



hich 



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flrike us with the moft fimple, and at the fame time the moll beau- 



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tiful profpeds of rural life ; prefenting fcenes of happinefs and 



.affluence 



